# Fun with electric fences! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2001, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-electric-fences/93799 "2001-11-16T19:44:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kamikazee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kamikazee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamikazee)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-electric-fences/93799/21 "2001-11-23T00:16:44Z")
This past Halloween my 7 year old son (picklehead) decided he was going to snitch a pumpkin from the neighbors garden. Un known to him they have an electric fence around it to keep the deer out of it. He came home with his eyes spinning in his head and said the fence got me!! It’s great to live in the country. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-electric-fences/93799/22 "2001-11-23T00:44:11Z")
Every year we got mushroom hunting in a local pasture that is surrounded by an electric fence. It’s too high to jump over, but you can easily crawl under it with about 6 inches to spare. Once I agreed to carry my friends keys in my back pocket because she had none. They were a monstrous conglomeration of keys and assorted trivia and a huge safety pin of the sort used to fasten skirts and only half of the stuff would fit in my pocket so the rest just dangled. When I crawled under the wire with room to spare, the pin sort of stuck up like the rod on the dodge cars, making contact with the wire just a jolt surged through. ZZZap! It knocked me to the ground with a grunt and I had a fist sized burn on my butt. It was not a thing I would ever want to repeat. ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-electric-fences/93799/23 "2001-11-23T00:57:38Z")
[Singing] Don’t wizz on the Electric Fence! [/Singing] God, I love Ren & Stimpy. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-electric-fences/93799/24 "2001-11-23T01:07:40Z")
Shocking\*, **Scylla**. Just _shocking_. To think that you would get a _charge_ out of such a thing. The _tension_ and _power_ of your storytelling was unbearable. How can you _conduct_ yourself in such a fashion? Have you no _resistance_ to such practical joking? This changes my _current_ opinion of you rather drastically! ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-electric-fences/93799/25 "2001-11-23T01:10:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\*Just wait till you piss on one. Now that’s interesting. An exquisite pain. And you want to talk about shrinking…:eek: \*\* Being tricked into doing this by a trusted elder is close to being the ultimate betrayal. I never liked that guy from that point on. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-electric-fences/93799/26 "2001-11-23T01:16:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > **Thus reassured, he leans into it to offer a carrot to Jasper, our bay quarterhorse.** This is the part that freaked me out the most. That’s it, partner. Tomorrow, I’m gonna head over to the pet store and buy a tiny hamster. And I’m gonna name it **Scylla** , you bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-electric-fences/93799/27 "2001-11-23T01:23:35Z")
Remeber Beavis’ song? “When I was young, And had no sense, I took a whiz, On a 'lectric fence. It hurt so much, And shocked my balls, I nearly crapped, In my overalls.” _Originally posted by Coldfire_ > [@](#): > > \*\*Tomorrow, I’m gonna head over to the pet store and buy a tiny hamster. And I’m gonna name it Scylla, you bastard. \*\* Will it be an Evil Nazi Hamster? ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-electric-fences/93799/28 "2001-11-23T05:00:45Z")
Note to self: if Scylla ever mentions “fence-sitting”, run. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-electric-fences/93799/29 "2001-11-23T05:39:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*_Shocking_, **Scylla**. Just _shocking_. To think that you would get a _charge_ out of such a thing. The _tension_ and _power_ of your storytelling was unbearable. How can you _conduct_ yourself in such a fashion? Have you no _resistance_ to such practical joking? This changes my _current_ opinion of you rather drastically! \*\* (snicker) (snicker, snort) (snicker, snort, haha) Ha Ha…He He He, HoHo, HEW HEW HEW BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! (gasp, snort) Oh, Jenster, DAMMIT!!! I think I wet myself!!! This is the most ELECTRIFYING post I’ve ever seen! ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-electric-fences/93799/30 "2001-11-23T06:55:23Z")
How re-_volt_-ing! If you urinate on it, is the current measured in _amp-peers_? ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-electric-fences/93799/31 "2001-11-23T07:27:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zoogirl \* > > (gasp, snort) Oh, Jenster, DAMMIT!!! I think I wet myself!!! > \*\* Okay, okay, it’s hard to type when you’re rolling on the floor! Zenster, I guess my brain got a little FRIED! ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2001, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-electric-fences/93799/32 "2001-11-23T13:54:21Z")
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