Comments on: 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

Bunk Strutts — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:53:40 +0000

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.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:26:38 +0000

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

By: strider

strider — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:21:05 +0000

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 :-)

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:49:55 +0000

Ja, es ist eine Dummheit zu tun.

By: G Eagle Esq

G Eagle Esq — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:53:25 +0000

It gives a NEW meaning to :

ScHocking

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:29:12 +0000

plane– I promise you won’t feel a thing… forever after.

By: planetross

planetross — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:21:53 +0000

I was thinking about doing that, … but just a little wouldn’t hurt … would it?

By: izaakmak

izaakmak — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:39:50 +0000

Sounds like an example where fatality might be the desired outcome!

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:34:05 +0000

mak– I had a friend in Hi-skool who learned not to whiz on an electric fence. Not fatal, but no fun.

By: izaakmak

izaakmak — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:32:30 +0000

Well… um… ah… ditto nursemyra.