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BigJoeWilliams
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Date Posted: 01:32:13 03/22/10 Mon
In reply to:
Gil
's message, "Re: Brainstorming nutty stuff" on 15:15:35 03/19/10 Fri
>Okay now from the other view point as I said earlier,
>I grew up in town. As a teen driving across the
>plains I had to stop on the side of the road to
>urinate. I was very polite in that, I went behind
>some bushes for cover and there found a a fence post.
>I did not realize the meaning of the things the wire
>ran through on the fence post. All I knew it was a
>fence post. Now those of you fellas that remember
>your teen years a dry post when you gotta go is a
>thing to be covered as fully as possible. I was
>surprised you might even say shocked when I felt like
>I had been kicked in my groin area, needless to say I
>got more than the fence post wet. Later while telling
>this story to a friend in the Army while we were on
>bivouac after he got through laughing he explained
>about electric cow fences.
>>Damn you dotB,
>>
My fateful experience with an electric fence didn't involve urinating, but did involve electrified barbed wire! I was working as a field service engineer contracted out to perform cable tv system upgrades. Was working in a semi-rural area where the last tap in line was just inside a fence made of barbed wire. It was in the chillier part of the year, so I had on a carhart style work jacket. I was slipping between the wires on the fence when one of the barbs poked through the jacket just enough to make skin contact. I didn't feel the barb, but when the charger activated, I took a shot right to the spine, as the barb was poking me dead-center middle of my back. Needless to say, my whole body arched like a cats, pushing the barb further into my back and essentially paralyzing me in place until the fence finally discharged...I finally made it through but was a little unsteady on my feet for a few minutes until I recovered....
BJW
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