KyMike wrote:


Dave Hinz wrote:
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:50:53 GMT, Nick Hull
wrote:
In article QilPf.588$wp.547@fed1read12,
"Steve B" wrote:

I don't see how it would not shock you if you ****ed on it, though.
If you were wearing rubber soled shoes, it wouldn't get you, but if
you were
barefooted, I think it would. Would you try it out and get back to
us?

pee is in droplets; the air in between insulates.

Mythbusters just tackled the ****ing on the third rail question. Short
version: you don't have the flow needed to conduct. That said, I still
wouldn't do it.




Some years ago I read a short article in a railfan-type magazine about
a drunk who was killed after he stopped on a RR overpass in England and
took a leak onto a 50,000 volt catenary wire below. Apparently the
voltage makes a difference.

Frequency makes a difference. 50KV at high frequency isn't all that
exciting, in fact it has recreational uses that you probably don't want to
know about.

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