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mm wrote:

On Sat, 06 May 2006 21:24:48 GMT, "Noozer" wrote:

Absolutely. I didn't even think of that this time, but I even asked
about this here once, about why would, as in Goldfinger, a heater
thrown in a tub electrocute someone when the quickest path to the
ground seemed to be through the water to the drain. Or if the drain
wasn't a ground, what would be?

Surely the fence poles in the ground made a better ground than the
rubber sole of her sneakers. Or even a leather sole. It hasn't even
rained for days.

Because .0001ohms resistance of the fence alone is still MORE resitance than
the same .0001ohms + the 1meg ohms provided by a sneaker.

Aren't you agreeing with me?

By the lack of rain, I meant that the victim wasn't standing on mud or
in wet grass, whereas maybe the posts go down to wet soil. (although
I hadn't considered the fence poles being mounted in cement.)

I'm saying the current should have gone thRough the fence.

The current will go through the fence and to ground via multiple paths.
It doesn't all have to go one way. The poles in the earth have some
finite and significant resistance. As does the path through the girl
and to ground. You could have 20 amps going to ground through the
fence poles, 50ma going through the girl, and it could be fatal.

Missed the first 10 or 20 seconds of the story at 6:30, but it seems
there is a light pole erected about a year ago, and someone today had
painted a red line from it to the backstop.

So at this point, it seems the cable resting on the backstop had
nothing to do with it, and people just jumped to that conclusion.
Kudos to whoever suggested this.

I looked at the URL someone posted, but by the time I got there, there
was no picture, and the news this evening showed pictures the ground
and the base of that light pole.

This still doesn't say why the backstop wasn't grounded sufficiently
and would go through her.

I'll try to find the story at 11PM.

And I'll try to look in the paper, but I really don't like the Sunday
paper anymore. So much bulk I have to get rid of.

As mentioned previously, Current does indeed seek out shortest patch,
but that does not mean that would only take that path. Someone else
mentioned parallel circuits, that hold true.

Other conditions could have been post in cement creating more of an
insulation barrier, group around posts was dry not providing sufficient
grounding to sink most of the current, etc.

And since do not have enough facts about the incident, only guessing.