Stray current danger is a real thing. A coworker of mine and her dog both got the sh!t shocked out of them while walking on a slushy/wet sidewalk in their town in Maryland a few years ago. She was walking along and the dog started to jump around and freak out and she didn’t feel it at first and kept walking forwards and took a few more steps and started getting jolts of electricity through her legs. She realized what was happening and turned around the way she had come from and ran out of the area. Turns out it was stray current coming from a overhead street light. The sidewalk as wet and slushy, and had been treated with salty ice melting pellets - forming a perfect conductive electrolyte solution that allowed the current to disperse far further than it would in dry conditions. The next winter, a local college student was killed by stray current from a LED display sign in the same exact conditions - snowy slushy sidewalks treated with ice melter chemicals.
Ive seen dairy cattle & hogs electrocuted when wires short out. Pigs look like you set off an M-80 mid-femur, and some fracture vertebrae. No laughing matter.
Stray voltage. I've seen that with dairy cows when a barn project is wired wrong. Usually it's a bonding wire in a sub panel or putting a ground wire onto the water line coming into the barn. Cow sticks her nose into the drinking cup and Zzzzzzzzt..... Isn't always severe enough to be fatal but it sure can put a damper on milk production.
Had something like this happen when I was in high school. Went to the bus stop and there was a new no parking sign planted. Smoke was coming from the ground around the pole. Of course I had to touch it and got knocked on my ass. Public works idiots had put it right into the street light power cable.
Bad ground.
ReplyDeleteMaybe stop pissing on the light poles?
ReplyDeleteIs that like peeing on an electric fence? Asking for a friend.
ReplyDeleteFree electricity for your Tesla.
ReplyDeleteI guess fire hydrants are a thing of the past. They never shocked mutts
ReplyDeleteStray current danger is a real thing. A coworker of mine and her dog both got the sh!t shocked out of them while walking on a slushy/wet sidewalk in their town in Maryland a few years ago. She was walking along and the dog started to jump around and freak out and she didn’t feel it at first and kept walking forwards and took a few more steps and started getting jolts of electricity through her legs. She realized what was happening and turned around the way she had come from and ran out of the area. Turns out it was stray current coming from a overhead street light. The sidewalk as wet and slushy, and had been treated with salty ice melting pellets - forming a perfect conductive electrolyte solution that allowed the current to disperse far further than it would in dry conditions. The next winter, a local college student was killed by stray current from a LED display sign in the same exact conditions - snowy slushy sidewalks treated with ice melter chemicals.
ReplyDeleteIve seen dairy cattle & hogs electrocuted when wires short out. Pigs look like you set off an M-80 mid-femur, and some fracture vertebrae. No laughing matter.
ReplyDeleteStray voltage. I've seen that with dairy cows when a barn project is wired wrong. Usually it's a bonding wire in a sub panel or putting a ground wire onto the water line coming into the barn. Cow sticks her nose into the drinking cup and Zzzzzzzzt.....
DeleteIsn't always severe enough to be fatal but it sure can put a damper on milk production.
I'm sure those dogs were abusing government property.
ReplyDeleteHad something like this happen when I was in high school. Went to the bus stop and there was a new no parking sign planted. Smoke was coming from the ground around the pole. Of course I had to touch it and got knocked on my ass. Public works idiots had put it right into the street light power cable.
ReplyDeleteBut then again, I once heard Rochester described as "Ossipee with buildings" in a neighboring town meeting.
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