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Titanium
01-14-2009, 08:24 AM
I read this on another forum and couldnt help but get a laugh or two out of it.

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.

exboy
01-14-2009, 10:31 AM
omg thats hilarious. im sitting at school trying not to laugh out loud.

ProspectorJim
01-14-2009, 01:41 PM
That's why many electrical fences pulse now lol

907Rider
01-14-2009, 01:48 PM
Omg that is hilarious

ridered92
01-14-2009, 03:08 PM
that made my day haha. my brothers trying to watch a movie and hes like whats so funny. then i start coughing and hes like stop making so much noise

S.A.J
01-15-2009, 08:20 PM
LOL

JForestZ34
01-15-2009, 10:32 PM
I thought when you get shocked or electricuted you muscles contract.. So your sphicter should have tightened up and you shouldn't have crapped yourself.. Actually all your muscles should have contracted and that's why you couldn't let go... I've gotten shocked with a 440v single phase exhaust fan motor. While it was brief( AND THANK GOD I WASN'T KILLED) I didn't piss or crap myself on that so I'm just wondering why it happened to you.


James

brian76708
01-15-2009, 10:39 PM
i think it depends if its ac or dc current

Doober
01-15-2009, 11:29 PM
This is the one time I can truly say I laughed out loud:p

dirtbike&quad
01-16-2009, 09:31 PM
same here doober lol

Speedy 400ex
01-16-2009, 11:21 PM
WoW that was great! lolololol Im going to be laughing about this for weeks.

tri5ron
01-17-2009, 02:06 AM
just be glad you didn't pee on the fence !

buck440
01-17-2009, 04:18 PM
i did a summer time jub once painting propane tanks with a friend and it was on a farm and there was an electric fence touching this 500 gallon tank and it shocked the crap out of me and then i knew i could have fun with this so before we paint the tank we have to wash it with this big rag thing so i told him to get this spot so he soaked it up with water:D and put it on there and then :eek2: he was soooo mad but it was so funny though, ps, never paint tanks as a summer time job, ever.

Brauap
06-12-2011, 08:30 AM
BUMP just because this is so damn funny!! :P

rbgnwa45
06-12-2011, 03:47 PM
This happened to me a couple years ago when I tried to shut off a rototiller by unplugging its bare coil from the spark plug. I fell to the ground, and I could still hear & feel the engine turning over minutes later. It's such a weird feeling, it kind of makes you blind, my vision went blurry.

buck440
06-12-2011, 07:10 PM
Originally posted by ProspectorJim
That's why many electrical fences pulse now lol

i touched one when i was younger and it was a pulse. i never knew why until now. i guess that is a good idea.

trx250xtim
06-12-2011, 07:22 PM
ha! That's a great story, I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

Stickman400
08-20-2013, 02:51 AM
Wow, for once a bot posted and bumped a thread that I'm glad it did. This was a pretty funny read. LOL'd quite a few times, such good detail.:D