Don’t Piss on a Streetcar Power Line in Your Bare Feet on a Steel Bridge While Holding On to a Metal Guardrail.
By Bunk Strutts
Just a Public Service Announcement from Tacky Raccoons.
[Found here.]
Tags: ouch, trolley, electrocution, urination, conductivity, fatal ignosecond
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Tuesday, 6 October 2009 at 12:14 AM
Thanks, I’ll try to remember that
Tuesday, 6 October 2009 at 6:23 PM
nursem– Fun Facts to Know and Tell.
Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at 1:32 PM
Well… um… ah… ditto nursemyra.
Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at 5:34 PM
mak– I had a friend in Hi-skool who learned not to whiz on an electric fence. Not fatal, but no fun.
Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at 5:39 PM
Sounds like an example where fatality might be the desired outcome!
Thursday, 8 October 2009 at 7:21 AM
I was thinking about doing that, … but just a little wouldn’t hurt … would it?
Thursday, 8 October 2009 at 5:29 PM
plane– I promise you won’t feel a thing… forever after.
Sunday, 11 October 2009 at 12:53 PM
It gives a NEW meaning to :
ScHocking
Sunday, 11 October 2009 at 8:49 PM
Ja, es ist eine Dummheit zu tun.
Monday, 12 October 2009 at 11:21 PM
To planetross: You know, it’s one of those “curiosity” things, like putting your tongue on cold metal fencepost in sub-zero weather to “see if what they say about it is true.” :-)
Some cattle/hog/sheep farms have electric wire in case any livestock should wander off. It is a much lower voltage than perhaps a streetcar cable, but I have heard peeing on one of those fences (barefoot or not) can kill, or at least give you a permanent learning experience that never grows dim or doubtful :-)
Saturday, 17 October 2009 at 12:26 AM
When IO was in the Navy a similar thing actually happened in Sydney, Australia at the Navy’s Garden Island Dockyard. A dockyard worker pee’d off the edge of the wharf & accidently misdirected his stream of urinary flow onto a set of 440 volt warship shore supply connection terminals. They later used pictures of his fried corpse on a safety poster. The photos were not nice
Saturday, 17 October 2009 at 6:53 PM
Tony– Not a good thing to do.
A contractor friend told me a story about a construction project near the U.S. border outside of San Diego. They’d pulled wire only to find that it had been stolen the next day, presumably for copper. So they rewired the building, and it happened again.
So they worked overtime, rewired, and powered up.
The female thief did not survive her third attempt.