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Must read!, Co-workers and Spouses will look at you funny if they're near by!

bjoehandley

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I read this on another forum and couldnt help but get a laugh out of it (except that chevy part).

Thought y'all should read this in case you're thinking of installing an electric fence! We have the standard 6ft. Fence in the backyard, and a few months ago, I heard about burglaries increasing dramatically in the entire city.

To make sure this never happened to me, I got an electric fence and ran a single wire along the top of the fence. Actually, I got the biggest cattle charger Tractor Supply had, made for 26 miles of fence. I then used an 8 ft. Long ground round, drove 7.5 feet into the ground. The ground rod is the key, with the more you have in the ground, the better the fence works.

One day I'm mowing the back yard with my cheapo Wal-Mart 6hp bigwheel pushmower. The hot wire is broken and laying out in the yard. I knew for a fact that I unplugged the charger. I pushed the mower around the wire and reached down to grab it, to throw it out of the way. It seems as though I hadn't remembered to unplug it after all.

Now I'm standing there, I've got the running lawnmower in my right hand and the 1.7 gigavolt fence wire in the other hand. Keep in mind the charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down cow on fire on the cover. Time stood still. The first thing I notice is my balls trying to climb up the front side of my body. My ears curled downwards and I could feel the lawnmower ignition firing in the backside of my brain. Every time that Briggs & Stratton rolled over, I could feel the spark in my head. I was literally at one with the engine. It seems as though the fence charger and the POS lawnmower were fighting over who would control my electrical impulses.

Science says you cannot poop and pee at the same time.. I beg to differ. Not only did I do all at once, but my bowels emptied 3 different times in less than half of a second. It was a Matrix kind of bowel movement, where time is creeping along and you're all leaned back. It seemed like there were minutes in between but in reality it was so
close together it was like exhaust pulses from a big block Chevy turning 8 grand.

At this point I'm about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto the fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I can't let go. I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences... But Dad always had those POS chargers made by International or whoever that were like 9 volts and just kinda tickled. This I could not let go of. The 8 foot long ground rod is now accepting signals from me through the permadamp Ark-La-Tex river bottom soil. At this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to just man up and take it, until the lawnmower runs out of gas.

'Damn!,' I think, as I remember I just filled the tank! Now the lawnmower is starting to run rough. It has settled into a loping run pattern as if it had some kind of big lawnmower race cam in it. Covered in poop & pee, and with my balls on my chest I think 'Oh God please die... Pleeeeze die'. But nooooo, it settles into the rough lumpy cam
idle nicely and remains there, like a big bore roller cam EFI motor waiting for the go command from its owner's right foot.

So here I am in the middle of July, 104 degrees, 80% humidity, standing in my own backyard, begging God to kill me. God did not take me that day... He left me there covered in my own fluids to writhe in the misery my own stupidity had created.

I honestly don't know how I got loose from the wire... I woke up laying on the ground hours later. The lawnmower was beside me, out of gas. It was later on in the day and I was sunburned. There were two large dead grass spots where I had been standing, and then another long skinny dead spot were the wire had layed while I was on the ground still holding on to it. I assume I finally had a seizure and in the resulting thrashing had somehow let go of the wire. Upon waking from my electrically induced sleep I realized a few things.

1- Three of my teeth seem to have melted.

2- I now have cramps in the bottoms of my feet and my right butt cheek (not the left, just the right).

3- Poop & pee when mixed together, do not smell as bad as you might think.

4- My left eye will not open.

5- My right eye will not close.

6- The lawnmower runs like a spotted ape now. Seriously! I think our little session cleared out some carbon fouling or something, because it was better than new after that.

7- My balls are still smaller than average yet they are almost a foot long

8- I can turn on the TV in the gameroom by farting while thinking of the number 4 (still dont understand this?)

That day changed my life. I now have a newfound respect for things. I appreciate the little things more, and now I always triple check to make sure the fence is unplugged before I mow.

The good news, is that if a burglar does try to come over the fence, I can clearly visualize what my security system will do to him, and THAT gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, which also reminds me to triple check before I mow.
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One time, when I was a kid, I got bit by a bear.
 
I use to be an electrician... You never lived untill you've survived a service wire hitting you. It doesn't hold on when you're on a roof. Kinda throws you LOL, then you wake up if you/re lucky.
 
Had a buddy in HS that peed on an electric fence when we were out hunting and crossing a neighbors dairy farm fields. Fast forward 3 years later in Navy electronics school when the instructor said there are three kinds of people in the world, those who can read a book and understand, read a book and do some labs and understand and then the third kind that just have to pee on the electric fence to truly understand ohms law. I was laughing so hard I was crying, it described my buddy perfectly.
 
I had the grand pleasure of watching my dad piss on a hot fence. Whoever said that white folks can't dance was proven wrong that day, as pops was doin' the Watusi at 4/4

Needless to say, that is one of those lessons best learned through another person's misfortune.
 
I had the grand pleasure of watching my dad piss on a hot fence. Whoever said that white folks can't dance was proven wrong that day, as pops was doin' the Watusi at 4/4

Needless to say, that is one of those lessons best learned through another person's misfortune.

You've got that dancing part right. I had a boss with whom we were out dove hunting. We came across a hot wire when switching to a different pasture. He said something like, "it ain't hot" and grabbed it. He was hollering and doing a jig while the rest of us laughed our asses off. He was always doing things like that. I miss that guy. Here's to you, Bill. :cheers:
 
When I was a kid sometimes our city folk cousins would come to visit. They really detested being "on the farm" and, we really detested them being there too. Hated trying to babysit those whiners. My brother and I would talk them into taking a walk to get them out of the house. We'd casually walk down by the fence and just hold their hand and then grab the electric fence with the other hand. The key is to not let go of your cousin. They are the one that's grounded. They dance the jig and you just laugh your butt off.....
 
:roflmao:(as i am wiping the tears from my eyes) that was hilarious! :D
 
8- I can turn on the TV in the gameroom by farting while thinking of the number 4 (still dont understand this?)


that is by far the funniest thing i have read today!
 
I did that one night on escape and evasion training in the military. Came across an electric fence, you could actually hear it buzzing, it was shortly after a summer rain storm. My pants legs are soaking wet, I step very carefully over the wire and into a Muskrat hole about knee deep.
 
I did that one night on escape and evasion training in the military. Came across an electric fence, you could actually hear it buzzing, it was shortly after a summer rain storm. My pants legs are soaking wet, I step very carefully over the wire and into a Muskrat hole about knee deep.

Did the screaming attract your pursuers? :wow:
 
I did that one night on escape and evasion training in the military. Came across an electric fence, you could actually hear it buzzing, it was shortly after a summer rain storm. My pants legs are soaking wet, I step very carefully over the wire and into a Muskrat hole about knee deep.

Yipes, good thing it was only training:eek:
 
Did the screaming attract your pursuers? :wow:

Stealth became a non issue right quick. The guys behind me kept trying to help, but got shocked every time they grabbed me. My flailing around trying to cut the wire with a dull knife sure didn't reduce the panic level much.
 
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