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[Edward Wingate]

Jared Dwarshuis wrote:

>I am sure that if you wrote the:  insurance company for permission they
>would say No!, The Police would say No!, The Fire Dept would say No! The
>Utility Company would say No!, the...................
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>Grace Hopper once said (paraphrased?) " It is easier to get forgivnen then
>it is to get permission"
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Jared,

Not quite true.

My insurance agent was in my lab a couple years ago when we switched 
companies and the only thing she suggested was that we increase our 
liability insurance, which we did. Our town fire marshal has been in the 
lab for a TC demo and gave a thumbs up in an on the air interview for a 
local TV station. A couple years ago I gave a magnifier demo to a local 
fire underwriting inspector when he came for a final inspection on some 
new wiring and he loved it. Just a few weeks ago I did a demo for a 
county sheriff's deputy and he loved it. I have also had representatives 
from the local power company and the local cable company in the lab for 
demos and there were no concerns. I haven't had a representative of the 
local fire department in the lab...........yet.

I've done interviews with Tesla coil demonstrations on 4 of the 6 local 
TV stations, one station 3 times in three years for hour long "live on 
location" morning news shows during which we put the reporter in the 
cage of death. During all of this I have had nothing but positive 
comments from people of all sorts. Not one single negative comment or 
threat to shut me down from anyone.

I believe the key to this is to look and talk like you know what you are 
doing, practice and teach safety and above all, be open about what you 
are doing. Nothing will get you negative attention like being secretive 
about activities that most people don't understand in the first place.

Just my two cents.

Ed Wingate RATCB