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From: Jeff Winslow
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 20:45
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 20:45
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In article <1211@ariel.unm.edu> ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu.UUCP (Duke McMullan n5gax) writes: >On a subject whose Hamming distance from the above isn't very great, no doubt >you've heard stories about people micturating on an electric fence, ignition >coil, or other source of HV. I'm skeptical of them, categorically. Want to >know why? Just take a strobe unit (photographic will do, but repetitive flashes >will be better) with you the next time you go in for a number one. Try for a >fairly dark bathroom. As the waters flow, fire that strobe. Look CLOSELY at >that stream. Now, are you skeptical too? Maybe you should see a doctor for that. :-) Or maybe the flash of the strobe causes a slight involuntary muscle contraction? Or maybe I'm just micturating into the moving atmosphere. Jeff Winslow
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!wrgate!midas!jeffw From: jeffw@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Electric Fences (why does person on end get the shock?) Message-ID: <1247@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> Date: 3 Jan 90 20:45:53 GMT References: <3858@orion.cf.uci.edu> <1211@ariel.unm.edu> Sender: nobody@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM Reply-To: jeffw@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 19