Try pissing on a skunk.
Pissing on an electric fence … woot …
Came in here to post exactly that video.
Oh, I’ve got it: how about burning liquids?
What, salmon can do it, can’t they?
I don’t believe that a stream of urine won’t conduct electricity.
I guarantee that pissing on a hot electric fence will conduct electricity to you! i speak from personal experience! It;s been nearly a half-century, but I remember the episode clearly.
Every year, the tornadoes return to Kansas, the swallows return to Capistrano, and the salmon return to AaronX’s bladder, where their ancestors spawned.
Yeah, that’s why I don’t pee in the ocean anymore.
Pissing on an electrified conductor could work, if the voltage were sufficiently high to jump the gaps between the droplets. In that case, though, you’d also get zapped just from standing too close.
I avoid pissing into the wind.
Tugging on Superman’s cape, though, is just fine.
The subject of Post #2 is named Jim.
Or, if the conductor is close enough that the urine stream is still pretty much continuous rather than droplets.
As I recall, from the* mythbusters *episode, the urine stream was obviously broken up after a couple of feet, but still looked continuous for the first foot or so. (And, given surface tension, it’s plausible to believe that the stream really is continuous for some distance).
So, to my mind, it’s pretty clearly implausible for a normal-height adult to get shocked by peeing from a standing position onto a conductor on the ground (such as a subway third rail), but it’s at least plausible to get some kind of at least momentary shock by pissing onto an electric fence a couple inches away.
Even if the victim is close enough for the stream to be solid, wouldn’t the shock cause a spasm of the urinary sphincter, thus interrupting the flow?
Also, don’t spit into the wind.