This happened before my move there in the 1970s. A Los Alamos scientist shunted his gas meter so he could heat his swimming pool without paying for the gas. I guess he thought as a big time PhD physicist he could figure out how to safely do it himself on the sly. Long story short: gas leaked into the walls of his house. One day the house blew up. Fortunately no one was home but they never found the dog. Then someone took up a collection to pay for a rebuild of the house as the insurance would not cover it.
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