Extreme conditions demand extreme responses?

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"A switch is pulled down, the door of the sabotaged transformer is locked and the two activists -- employees of EdF, the French state electricity supplier -- drive off. In their wake hundreds of houses are left without electricity for much of the morning... It was the second time in a week that blackouts had hit the Paris region as striking gas and electricity workers adopted radical tactics to support their call for a 10 per cent pay rise and an end to outsourcing of jobs."