This one's legal
Usually when you see a utility pole that looks like this in Panama
City's corregimiento of Calidonia,
it means that somebody is stealing electricity or cable TV
service. And so it seemed to this reporter, who saw three men from a
utility company looking up at what in Panamanian popular parlance is a
"telaraña" --- literally, "spider's web" but slang for the
tangles in
which illegal utility connections are concealed. But they said that
this wasn't the case, that it was just a bewildering tangle of
electrical, phone, cable television and Internet connection wires. Photo by Eric Jackson
