What I did with the weed whacker last summer

I'll bet an industrial ceiling fan with sharpened metal blades could lop off your noggin right quick :)

As far as the Mythbusters goes, they also demonstrated that you couldn't get shocked by pissing on an electric fence. Although I've not tried it, I once saw a drunk chick bare her ass to take a pee and make contact with an electric fence. This happened years ago at a dairy farm I worked on in my youth.

And very convincingly! There were two reasons -- first, the pisser doesn't usually make sufficiently good contact with the ground. And second, the urine stream breaks up into droplets that can't conduct.

One of the things that makes Mythbusters generally credible is that, when something doesn't work, they push it to the point where it does work -- which is usually beyond the point of credibility. They did it in this case by bringing the gel dummy close enough to the rails where so that the urine stream did not break up -- and he was "electrocuted".

Science is not "facts" but "process". They are generally good at "process", except when they don't perform an experiment often enough to reduce the likelihood of sampling error.

OK, I just spoke to my friend, and he absolutely confirms the story, as I told it. He actually knew the pilot and the family. He was unable to attend the funeral himself, but several other close friends and fellow pilots, did. His explanation is that it was all down to "100 hour syndrome", where a private pilot with 100 full-license hours up on a machine, gets complacent, and careless. Apparantly, it is absolutely laid down in the safety rules that the pilot must remain in his seat, hauling on the rotor brake, until it has come to a complete stop, when it must then be chained down. Such was his excitement at seeing his little girl waiting for him, this all went out the window, and this hideous accident was the result. He believes that it was reported in one of the local papers, but not in the nationals, so either I did read it as I believed, or I heard it directly from him. He reckons it was about 2002 / 3.

I know what you mean about dream realities. It's sort of like the more times you tell the story, the truer it becomes. I think that such stories are often based in reality, but come about as a result of added embellishments to improve the entertainment value. Further, I think that if you really examine what you're saying at the time you are saying it, deep down, you

*know* that it's a 'story' you are telling. I know that I have such stories that I've got used to telling in a certain way over the years, and as I tell them, I know that particular events in the story didn't actually happen in the way I am telling them, so I think that they have probably 'developed' that way to elicit the sorts of reactions from the listeners, that please you in the way that you want them to.

Arfa

There was a big pig in Montana.That pig knew he was going to get zapped by that electric fence.The pig didn't care, he was going out anyway. cuhulin

Well, whatever the integrity of the science and the methodology used in its pursuit, it's pretty entertaining telly, I'll grant you that ! Did you see my additional post above, about the truth of the decapitated child story that I had previously related ?

Arfa

That pig escaped, and invented WebTV.

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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Some pigs use WebTV and computers.I am one of those escaped pigs who does so.Velocity Micro ProMagix desktop computer

with wireless radio Gyration mini keyboard and mouse. I never drag my computer around in the mud.That's why that pig escaped from the mud and invented WebTV. cuhulin

In my own youth, I once accidentally played a stream of water, from a hose, on an electric fence. I had my finger over the end, directing the stream. That one was not powerful enough to electrocute anything; but I definitely felt the jolt. Didn't hurt me, but certainly surprised me.

jak