06-10-2015, 01:39 AM
Not an automotive story, but it kind of fits in this thread.
My parents always ran an electric fence around their garden. As most of you know an electric fence has the voltage stepped down considerably so that if you touch it you get a shock, but it is nowhere near lethal. One year the varmints were still getting into the garden so my dad just ran a direct 110 volt line straight out of a plug onto the fence. This is extremely dangerous because if a human (or someones pet) touched it it could kill them. Of course they only plugged it in at night and they tied their own dog to keep it from getting shocked. Every morning there would be dead groundhogs, possums on the fence. Most of the time they would be biting it with the wire in their mouth. One time there was a dead dog, but they don't know where it came from.
Very effective, but very very dangerous,
My parents always ran an electric fence around their garden. As most of you know an electric fence has the voltage stepped down considerably so that if you touch it you get a shock, but it is nowhere near lethal. One year the varmints were still getting into the garden so my dad just ran a direct 110 volt line straight out of a plug onto the fence. This is extremely dangerous because if a human (or someones pet) touched it it could kill them. Of course they only plugged it in at night and they tied their own dog to keep it from getting shocked. Every morning there would be dead groundhogs, possums on the fence. Most of the time they would be biting it with the wire in their mouth. One time there was a dead dog, but they don't know where it came from.
Very effective, but very very dangerous,
