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From: ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Electric Fences (why does person on end get the shock?)
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Date: 7 Jan 90 20:12:07 GMT
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In article <33514@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU# ghg@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (George Goble)
writes:
#I (not the fence) moved up to 15-KV neon sign transformers after that.
#Those turned ant hills into glass.
#
#My dad once "grazed" a the fence wire with the top of his head, and he was
#instantly down in the dirt.  A friend of mine, whizzed on the fence
#at point blank range, it knocked him down too.
#
#--ghg

Ahem. Where I come from, we call this "natural selection".

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