Never piss on the electric fence
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Dumb bastard! 
mit_dropout
Banned
I thought myth busters busted that myth that pissing on an electric current would shock you. 
I thought myth busters busted that myth that pissing on an electric current would shock you.
They did.
Strictly speaking, this should not happen. If the man is wearing rubber boots that insulate him from the ground, then the electric circuit should be cut and he should not be electrocuted... Basically, in order for current to pass, the conductor must be placed between two voltage sources that are different voltages. The higher voltage source would then drive current to the lower one. However, there must be loop, and so the voltage sources must be connected. In a electric fence, the wires are the first voltage source and the ground is the other. If you touch the fence, electricity flows from it, through you to the ground. That is how you get electrocuted.
Someone will ask me how a person who is off the ground and climbing an electrical fence gets electrocuted. Again, it is the same principle. Because of of the resistance of the wires of the fence, two points on it do not have the same voltage. If you are in contact with two points at the same time, the electricity flows from the one with the higher to the one with lower voltage and electrocutes you.
When I was in college, one of my friends liked to test this principle. He would take a screw drive, hold on exactly one point and push it into the live wire of an electrical plug. The idiot would not get electrocuted because the touch was exactly at one point...
Of course there is the joke of the electrical repair man who wearing rubber boots, standing on one high voltage wire while holding on, bare handed to the one he is repairing. Because his rubber boots insulate him for the other wire, no current passes so he is not electrocuted. But then he decides to pee and the pea hits the wire on which he is standing..
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http://mythbustersresults.com/episode3
Urinating on the electric third rail of a train track can cause electrocution.
busted
Although it is possible to electrocute yourself by urinating on a third rail, you would have to stand unrealistically close to the rail to do it. In most instances, a urine stream would break into droplets before making contact with the rail.
(This concept was tested with an electric fence in episode 14 and that version of the myth was confirmed. Distance is the key.)
Urinating on the electric third rail of a train track can cause electrocution.
busted
Although it is possible to electrocute yourself by urinating on a third rail, you would have to stand unrealistically close to the rail to do it. In most instances, a urine stream would break into droplets before making contact with the rail.
(This concept was tested with an electric fence in episode 14 and that version of the myth was confirmed. Distance is the key.)
mit_dropout
Banned
Thx for clearing that up.
MythBusters is wrong I'd say 30% of the time, partly because they can create a close scenario, but not the exact circumstances. Also, they don't always have all the parts of the story, so they improvise as they go.
electric current through urinary tract.....OUCH!!!
Ahhh. Gotcha.
In order for you to be electrocuted, there must be a complete path for the electricity to pass through you... Typically, your shoe soles will break the circuit and protect you, which is why electricians wear the shoes they do...However, if the voltage is high enough, it could still ionise the air and electrons arc through it. This is why the switches that are used to turn on 11kv (11 000volt) lines are quenched in oil. The reason is that at such high voltages, even when the two contacts of a break are pulled apart, when they are still close, if gap is small and of open air, the potential difference between the two contact might ionise the air and cause a conductive path. You would then see a bolt of light arching from contact to the other. To break this, the whole apparatus is immersed in oil that requires extremely highly voltages to ionise
I do not know what the voltage of the rails of an electric train is.. but there must be a circuit in order for eletrocution to occur..
Urine has high sodium and other electrolytes that render it quite conductive...
It is not the amount of sodium, at the 7kv that most fences seem to be electrified at, water can electrocute you...The question is how you are in the electrical loop...
Your shoe soles will keep you safe as long as your feet are close together. Move your feet apart more than a meter or have less contact with the ground with one foot than the other and you'll feel it due to the voltage drop due to the distance. This is why they tell you to bunny hop or shuffle your feet if you are trying to get away from a car that has a electrified line laying on top of it.
As for the mythbusters findings, it makes sense, A similar circumstance is that parasite that exists in some rivers in the jungle. You don't piss in the river with a continuous stream because they can travel up it to your body. Close enough to establish a continuous stream, close enough for a zap.
Thats what happens to me after a good BJ.
Bull shit
What about 3 times 10 to the 8th (m/s) don't niggas understand? I won't guarantee the clip was real, but he was pissing inches from the fence. What does high voltage mean, lol?
C'mon nigga?
C'mon nigga?
That would do it. If his piss had low resistence, that shit is easy. Or maybe his swipe hit the fence?!?!?!
