Thanks for all the input everyone. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it. We were actually called out there for the guy next door, stealing power on a service that had the meter pulled months ago by the utility company for non payment. Evidently, they had been steal power for months. By the time I got there the utility company had already pulled that meter and given it to the police as evidence. That's when we noticed the meter next door, with the pipe bridged in the fuse socket. That tenant was actually the whistle blower on the guy next door who was stealing power, and she subsiquently got her meter pulled too. It's a four bank meter service at a run down apartment complex and the owner has been pulling this stuff for quite some time. Talk about a good way to get yourself killed. He's now facing criminal charges.
