Gallery of "electrical cabling gone wild"

I recall the old police shack in Times Square dripping with cables stretching all over the back wall, but the new shack must have finally put those all underground. [Gallery @ Royal Pingdom]

[#1 posted by strider_mt2k, April 3, 2009 9:45 AM]

I was ten years at a company that built specialized police vehicles.

They're bad enough when you're building them.

Just wait until you've been tasked with retrofitting the Crawdad County Sheriff's Office/Barbershop's 1987 Dodge Command/Fishing shitbox after Cletus and his cousins have been keeping it patched together in the same garage as the big farm show is held in every year since Cletus's dad built it new.
(inhale)

To be honest, THAT part was sheer joy.
The rest made me crazy and old before my time.

[#2 posted by dculberson, April 3, 2009 10:59 AM]

Strider, I had the pleasure of buying a few sets of the in-car video systems a few years ago. The ones that used a portable VHS recorder custom integrated into what amounts to a trunk-mounted combination cooler/safe. (Steel box with sheet foam insulation and a peltier junction.) The amount of cabling that went with just that part of the police car equipment was amazing.

Unfortunately I hung on to them just a little too long and they ended up being worthless. It was fun to play with, though. I probably still have one of the cameras hanging around somewhere.

[#3 posted by tels7ar, April 3, 2009 10:26 PM]

I did this sort of thing once with network cables: http://www.flickr.com/photos/phrenologist/3172558/