STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- You may have noticed a large mysterious box attached to a utility pole in your neighborhood with a meter just below it. An Eltingville resident reached out to the Advance ...

Meter Box for 400-Amp: $500 to $800; Age. ... so you may end up responsible for the wire that runs from the electrical pole, to your house and down the siding to the electrical meter box.

It is extremely dangerous to touch anything inside a meter box. There are 120-240 volts running through it. If you put your fingers in the wrong place, you could be burned, or worse, electrocuted.

Botteron then allegedly cut power lines from a power pole and inside a power meter box in the 6400 block of Santa Fe Trail. That is where deputies found him, still cutting lines, the statement said.

She’s referring to the electrical meter box, or weatherhead, as CenterPoint Energy calls it. The box was yanked off the side of her house after a nearby tree fell.