On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:22:00 -0700, DE wrote:
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:39:50 +0000, David Billington

Great, reminds me of a chap I knew in high school who admitted ****ing
on an electric cattle fence. He said he didn't feel quite right for
about a week.

Myth Busters did a segment on that one---it was busted -no chance
of even a tingle wizzing on a hot fence.

But fence energizers a good source of entertainment when city folk
are out for a visit.....my Parmak MK 5 will flat knock you down if you
try and squeeze through it and touch it with your back while touching
the ground wire. Dogs are particularly sensitive to shocks, cured
the rottweiler down the road from coming around. The owner says
he wont go near a fence for some reason.....

I think that maybe people have different "thresholds of shock", to coin a
phrase. One time in school or at some club or something, somebody had a
Tesla coil or magneto, and about a dozen kids stood in a circle holding
hands, and they handed a lead to each of the end kids. When they turned on
the power supply, most people just got a sort of a tingle, but one guy
almost went down - he was writhing like he was in pain.

So the rest of us just let go. I don't know if it's significant that he
was about the middle of the string of kids.

Cheers!
Rich