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From: okunewck@gondor.UUCP (Philip E. OKunewick)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <2034@gondor.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 13:49:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 13:49:18 1986
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Reply-To: okunewck@gondor.UUCP (The DUCK)
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In article <118@graffiti.UUCP> buck@graffiti.UUCP (Lester Buck) writes:
>...some simple Pavlovian conditioning had taught this dog
>that whenever he relieved himself on that one spot, he was fed.
>They replaced the cable and everything has worked fine since.
>
>I'm not sure I believe this, but it makes for a hilarious story on tape.
>

Well, it's a great story, but I'm not so sure...

Back when she was a little girl, my mother's cousin had a problem
with a certain dog that came around habitually to water one of their
trees.  This was not considered acceptable.

To remedy this, her cousin set a metal plate at the base of the tree
(right in the target zone) and drove a ground stake in.  He then
climbed the tree with wires connecting the plate and ground stake to
an old style telephone crank generator.

(For those of you who haven't ever played with them, these little
babies will put out 90 volts on a good day.)

Surely enough, the dog came around to make his appointed rounds.  He
lifted his leg, started to go, and the fella in the tree cranked like
crazy.

Now, when you consider that salty water is a very good conductor of
electricity...

Legend has it that it only took one dose of this conditioning, and
that dog never came back to that tree again.


(There is also the old story about the farmhand who relieves himself
on an electric fence...)

                                                        ---Duck