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From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <2830@reed.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 02:39:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 20 02:39:55 1986
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Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
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In article <2034@gondor.UUCP> okunewck@gondor.UUCP (The DUCK) writes:
>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.
>>
>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...
>							---Duck

This does sound more like it.  It seems that when my boss was
working with a carnaval (I don't quite remember this exactly) there was
this dog that was rather obnoxious (sp?).  Well, carnavals have massive
power needs, and it seems that they connected their 1/2 foot trunks at
these junction boxes that looked like fire-hydrants.  Yup.  That dog
went howling off never to relieve himself on one of those again...

(BTW I think they ran huge voltages (7000?) with small amps? Right?
Wrong?  It didn't make sense to me...)

sean kamath

ihnp4!tektronix!reed!kamath