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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,sci.bio,sci.chem,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Mysterious exploding fish
Message-ID: <1855@argus.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 90 17:28:05 GMT
References: <1990May18.212647.19155@actrix.co.nz> <367@eslvcr.UUCP>
Organization: NJ Instit. of Tech: TEIES Project
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In article <367@eslvcr.UUCP>, ted@eslvcr.UUCP (Ted Powell) writes:
: into a wire. (Years ago, moving into a new--to me--apartment, I found a
: length of twisted lamp cord that emerged from the woodwork, ran along a
: few feet, and disappeared under the wallpaper. I went to remove it with
: a kitchen knife...)

When I was helping my dad put in a wall airconditioner at my parents old
place (well, more of him doing it and me watching), we had to disconnect
power from an outlet in the wall just as a precaution in case we ran over
its power line.  So we found the wire in the basement and disconnected it.
On went the saber saw, cutting a hole in the wall, then *ZAP*.  The breaker
to the saw blew and we heard something underneath the wall.  A good 
inches was missing from the saw blade, which we never found.  The idiot
that wired up the place had *TWO* possible paths for power to get there.
One set of wires came from below, which makes sense since the house power
panel was right underneath.  The other set of wires got power from the
second floor above us!  So from that point on, we checked the power to 
make sure it goes out, which I guess we really should have done in the
first place.
-- 
Kenneth Ng: Post office: NJIT - CCCC, Newark New Jersey  07102
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