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From: kluksdah@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Norman C. Kluksdahl)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Electrocution -- Is this possible?
Summary: paranoid plots----
Message-ID: <75@enuxha.eas.asu.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 89 20:09:02 GMT
References: <7571@polya.Stanford.EDU> <7528@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: Arizona State Univ, Tempe
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In article <7528@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, eacj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Julian Vrieslander) writes:
> In article <7571@polya.Stanford.EDU> ramsey@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ramsey W. Haddad) writes:
> > ``A convicted murderer who had avoided the electric chair was
> >electrocuted by accident white sitting naked on a steel toilet in his
> >cell, officials said.
> 
Aha!!!  You forgot the obvious!!!  A distant, crazed relative of the victim
managed to get himself a job as a prison guard, then sneaked in some tools
when all the inmates were out in the exercise yard, opened the TV set, 
connected the output of the stepup transformer to the earphone jack (which
conveniently disabled sound and ensured that the inmate in question would
bite into the headphone wire to try to 'fix' the problem), put contact cement
on the metal commode (ensuring that the inmate would be seated on the
conductor for the above operation), closed up the TV, and left.  After the
death of the inmate, he sneaked back into the cell and removed his modifications
so as to destroy the evidence.  (Shades of "Mission Impossible" )

  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)

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Norman Kluksdahl              Arizona State University
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