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thad@btr.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan) writes:

>In article <7480@public.BTR.COM> grady@public.BTR.COM ( ) writes:
>>Just to take this thread on a morbid twist,
>>does anyone know what voltage and amperage
>>is used in state executions?

>Dunno, but I've "heard" that a person can be killed using a common 1-1/2V
>"D" cell battery, some wire, and two needles.

>No, you DON'T strangle the person with the wire, shove the battery down
>his throat, and bury him under a cross made from the needles!  :-)

>As it was related to me years ago, the point (no pun :-) of the needles
>was to penetrate the epidermis and present the battery's voltage to the
>highly-conductive "inner" layers of the person's body; if, say, one
>needle pierced each arm, the current would pass through the heart causing
>fibrillation leading to death.

>Probably a 12V car battery and jumper cables (with one clamped to, say, the
>big toe and the other to one's opposing arm) would effect the same result;
>'twould probably hurt, too!  :-)

I crossposted this to (and set followup to) alt.folklore.urban, and
I'm dying to see if this has come up before.  I know that I've heard
stories about low-voltage electrocutions; wonder if they're just
wishful thinking......

>Hmmm, what with all the concern about falsely-triggered car alarms awakening
>neighborhoods, what about having one's car charged up to some potential?

I've heard ULs about this one, too.

>Thief attempts to break in, ZZZ-Z-A-P *P*O*W*.  Only a millisecond disturbance
>to the neighbors, followed by the thief's quiet wimperings!   :-)

Wish it were true, too!

Dave
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