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Submitted By - Smoking cable!!We received a call one afternoon from the local police dept, about some smoke coming off of an electric line in front of the police station! When we arrived we found about 120 feet of cable tv line smoking! (from one end to the other!!) There was hardly a breeze and the smoke looked like something from the twilight zone!! There were not any electric lines touching the cable TV at all!! While one of the guys checked the pole, I checked the the police station side and found 125 volts on the metal flashing (eve) where the cable tv's j hook was screwed in! I cut the steel support wire that was hooked onto the j hook and started looking for the source of the voltage!! After a few minutes one of the police officers said, hey can you check out the security light over the bay door, it just went out a little while ago!! YEP!!! You guessed it! The hot leg (120 volt) had broken off from the security light and was grounding out on the arm which was attached to the side of the bldg! So, beware the smoking cables!