Sadly, in some parts of the world, trying to get a utility (electrical is the one I've seen so far, but other utilities are probably susceptible to this as well) to do anything for you without an unrealistically large amount of cash in hand is apparently futile, leading to people asking about unsafe workarounds.
Normally, we'd roundly reject the OP's proposal as hazardous, and rightly so -- messing with stuff on the utility side of the meter is not for the unskilled! But, how do we deal with objections that our "go tell your utility to do it" policy simply won't get anywhere with the utility in question?