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From: jeffw@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow)
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Subject: Re: Electric Fences (why does person on end get the shock?)
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Date: 3 Jan 90 20:45:53 GMT
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In article <1211@ariel.unm.edu> ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu.UUCP (Duke McMullan n5gax) writes:

>On a subject whose Hamming distance from the above isn't very great, no doubt
>you've heard stories about people micturating on an electric fence, ignition
>coil, or other source of HV. I'm skeptical of them, categorically. Want to
>know why? Just take a strobe unit (photographic will do, but repetitive flashes
>will be better) with you the next time you go in for a number one. Try for a
>fairly dark bathroom. As the waters flow, fire that strobe. Look CLOSELY at
>that stream. Now, are you skeptical too?

Maybe you should see a doctor for that.  :-)

Or maybe the flash of the strobe causes a slight involuntary muscle
contraction?


Or maybe I'm just micturating into the moving atmosphere.

						Jeff Winslow