This village in Serbia has THE ONLY FLYING UTILITY POLE IN THE WORLD, and this is what they are doing with it! (VIDEO)

If one man grinds corn, other can not turn on the milking machines and milk the cows. If the third has their milking machines on, forth can't watch TV. If there is wind, wires on the utility pole become tangled together, so the neighbor closest to the pool has to untie them with a stick. He runs to the most famous utility pole in Šumadija, so called flying  utility pole, and solves the problem. Thats how they live in the village Oplanić, community of Knić, in the middle of Šumadija. This lasts for years!   

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In the village Oplanić, a group of villagers lives like in the 60's of the past century, because electricity in this area was done precisely at that time, and for that time was enough for few lights and a radio. As the villagers bought TVs, computers, corn grinder, milking machines, freezers and electric stove, things got bit complicated.

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Luckily there are mobile phones so villagers can contact each other and arrange when will what be turned on.

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- If i am grinding in the evening corn, the other one can not turn his milking machines and milk the cows, our electricity can't keep it up. Then the one that milks would call the other neighbor to ask him what he has turned on, and if he is not to be "blamed", he calls the other one, then the third one. When he finds out who is draining the power, he asks him to stop whats he doing if its not a problem because cow milking can't wait till tomorrow. Then the one that was to "blame" stops his work, and when he is able to continue, he plugs the machines back on - explains Dragan Mitrović how is to live in Oplanić.

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Zoran Pajović from the same village said that the installations were done in 1962. and in that time a household would use few lights and a radio and it was not changed ever since.

- Our voltage is often from 150 up to 170 volts, so our machines use a lot of power, because they have to work harder. Because of the bad installations my computer burned out twice, once freezer, TV and refrigerator - sighs Pajović.

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Rade Manojlović says that his hydrophore alone broke down 5 times, but also a TV receiver and some smaller devices.

- I have nine cows, i am milking seven. I have three-phase current. If one phase is missing, it's all for nothing, there is no milking. My life depends on what devices and in what moment my neighbors turn on, sometimes it depends if i will drink coffee at all - said Manojlović.

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The problems don't stop there. Even that weak power can disappear, as soon as there is a bit stronger wind. On the utility poles, set in the 60's of the last century, wind tangles the wires, starts sparking all over, a dozen households fear not to lose that power as well. At that moment everybody call Dragan Mitrović, a first neighbor to the most incredible utility  pole in Šumadija - a flying utility  pole!

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- It is actually a utility  pole who has been rotten for a decade, it rotted in the ground. That utility pole you can pull out with your hands and put it back in the hole. So, when there is a stronger wind, i carry some stick with me, i run to the utility  pole to untangle the wires. When dust settles we have some kind of power as it is. I have been doing that for 10 years. I hope the electricity has known the poor me by now, so it wont harm me, even if i stand in wet grass - says Mitrović.

The power has forced the dozen houses in Oplanić to live in harmony, because they wouldn't survive otherwise. In Oplanić they don't even know how many times they asked for help with authorities in Electric company and how many promises they received since. They asked for better voltage, to replace "the flying post" and to correct ten more, because cables on some places are dragging on the grass.

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This is how the "flying utility  pole" looks like, it is loose and is maintained for 10 years a by villager from Oplanić, Dragan Mitrović.

(Telegraf.co.uk)