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- artofwar420, on 10/11/2007, -4/+65The music made it a thousand times funnier.
- andregriffin, on 10/11/2007, -3/+43Don't whiz on the electric fence!
Didn't Ren & Stimpy teach you any better? - lansuggs, on 10/11/2007, -3/+32The music worked for me too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKv2SHhNrW0 - Bklynadam, on 10/11/2007, -2/+28Do not follow this link. Warning! Maybe worse than goatse?
- dcipjr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22Whether you get zapped really depends on how high the voltage is. The third rail, which Mythbusters tested, is typically low-voltage DC -- so although the power is more than enough to kill you, the current isn't going to travel up the pee stream.
However, if you pee on a high-voltage AC line, it's definitely going to arc up the stream and kill you. My dad used to work for the local utility -- he got called out once because a kid whizzed over the side of a railroad bridge, hit a 13,000 volt AC line, and had his midsection blown apart. Even though the stream breaks up, since the voltage is that high (and since AC likes to arc), the current will jump from droplet to droplet, until it reaches you. And when it does, it's gonna hurt. - artofwar420, on 10/11/2007, -5/+20The music is by Imogen Heap, she's been on the videos section before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cpSv2mNhhc
Here's the SNL spoof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKv2SHhNrW0 ....God I feel like such a comment whore. - FortyCaliber, on 10/11/2007, -6/+20No... They never did the electric fence test.
Mythbusters proved pissing on the 3rd rail was a myth... and they proved that a pissing dummy couldn't be affected anyways they never even tried a human. A human's urine comes out in a spiral because the urethra is "rifled." Human urine wouldn't have a break in the stream once the stream started... however, there might not be enough conductivity in all urine all of the time. The concept is plausible enough for me not to try it... however, if you feel it's so fake... you try it. Try the third rail too.
I dare ya... - WalkerBurgin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15At least when he fell over he didn't fall on to the electric fence.
- moxley, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13When I was 10 years old I was in central minnesota at a relative's farm. Myself and a cousin who was my age both had pellet guns and were going out into the wilderness areas around the farm (it was so cool, they had forests, swamps, etc)
They were mainly a farm that grew things, but they also had cows. The had a fence around where the cows were. On the way out to the places we wanted to explore and short our pellet guns we were walking by the fence. This fence was not like the gate in the video, rather it was about 4.5 ft high and consisted of maybe four equally spaced wires with a post every 6 or 8 ft or so. This was an electric fence designed to keep the cows in. I didn;t know it was electric and we stopped to try to figure out our route and the barrel of my rifle rested on the fence.
As soon as this happened I felt like every cell in my body was a little demon using a sledge hammer like a golf club trying to knock my insides out of my body. Painful doesn't even describe it, and the worst part was I had no idea what was happening or that that I was being shocked, so I had no inclination to pull my gun barrell away from the fence. I stood there getting the ***** shocked out of my 10 year old ass for about 10 seconds literaly thinking I was dying before my buddy finally kicked me off of the fence
- (at which point he informed me that it was an electric fence)...
The point of my story being that, I am in my 30s now and I still remember that feeling, it's like getting your ass beaten from the inside out....
Anyways, when we got to shooting our pellet guns later he was hit by several ricochets...I don't know why that kept happening.... - psion01, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10You'll notice that the sparking appears along the ground. My guess, is that the urine mixed with the heaped snow and gave it the conductivity needed for sparking there. If this is the case, he didn't get shocked through his penis, but through his feet. There's some serious voltage on that fence!
- moxley, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Someone who knows more about electricity can correct me if I am wrong, but from what I understand voltage isn't the dangerous part - 12,000 volts sounds like a lot, but I think it;s the amperage that makes it lethal - Voltage is like the speed that the current moves I believe - and the amperage is the force and what actually kills you. If this is correct then I am guessing that amps could be analogous to mass - like if a fly hits you at 70 MPH it wont hurt you; if a brick hits you at 70 MPH it's another story.....
- sosgal721, on 10/11/2007, -7/+16Wait a second, I thought they already proved this wrong on mythbusters!?
- artofwar420, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9I saw that too! the moment I heard that song while the man was falling, that video came up in my head, then I laughed uncontrollably .
- Shando, on 10/11/2007, -12/+19Already proven untrue on Mythbusters. This is fake
- djlights, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8And here is the obligitory scene that the Pee Fence was making fun of the SNL making fun... of...
er.. http://youtube.com/watch?v=OEsfmMrjNZA - dwoo12, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8They did... they said that the stream breaks up into little droplettes, therefore breaking the connection of urine to fence (!=shock).
It was only if you were an inch away from it, the connection would be complete (==shock).
This guy must have an EXTREMELY powerful hose. - gartekh, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7When nature's callin'
Don't be stallin'
Use your common sense
Before you let it flow
Find a place to go
Just don't whiz on the electric fence - grammalvsu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6pissing on the third rail can definitely shock you. in law school we read a casy-study of a homeless man who died from pissing on the third rail. interestingly enough his family then took advantage of the situation and sued the city for millions of dollars. don't know where they were when he was living on the street...
- Moocat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4What kind of cattle wire were they using? Most of the wire I've seen is only a few strands with a very low voltage running through it, just enough for the cows to get the idea they shouldn't rub against it.
To add, I went camping in Vermont on a boy scout trip once right next to a farm. I woke up in the middle of the night and had to take a piss but lo and behold...not a whole lot of outhouses in the middle of the woods. So I strolled over toward some trees and started going. Lucky me, I had an electric fence not more than a foot and a half away I was peeing on and yep, got the shock. I didn't even know it at first because it was one of those fences that shoots just a little bit of electricity through once every two or three seconds. It didn't really hurt that much, just surprised the crap out of me and I almost fell over in the process.
For those saying electricity hurts, I've never had an actually painful experience with electricity. Is there some other type where it hurts instead of temporarily freezing up your muscles? Because after a shock, I feel fine, it's just the during that feels uncomfortable. - balatus84, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I'm not sure what kind of fences they had back then, but most (if not all) electric fences now pulse every few seconds. Probably more efficient. And the voltage is high, not low like Moocat said. The current is low. There are probably 1000+ volts pulsing through that wire.
It hurts, but only for a split second. It lets you know it's there. - NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4@Shando Actually they did it again on a revisit, and it DID shock them. Adam actually pissed on their electric cattle prong thing, he got enough of a shock from that to notice... lol
- jonnymj, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4my problem with the myth busters and this myth is that the "pee stream" was just comming out due to gravity, and was not forced out by any internal pressure. I dont know about anyone else but when I pee there is normally pressure to help it on its way out. I think that would lead to a solid stream and not a trickle like they showed on the Mythbusters.
- Lionhart, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4@griz
If any difference the third rail would be more dangerous. - foxymcfox, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2For the love of God, digg this down.
- mkillion, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@moxley
The amount of current that flows through you is dependent on the amount of voltage and resistance in the circuit. The higher the voltage, the more current. - ApplCmptrDood, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2What is it for us idiots who want to click it but don't want to be scarred for life?
- Apreche, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2http://freespace.virgin.net/christopher.rose/RenStimpLyrics.htm
- Supertrout, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Can someone post an alternate site to see the video? Work blocked the website. Thanks diggers.
- griz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3That was a third rail myth. Not an electric fence. There may be differences although I would think the power in the third rail would be far more.
- arnar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"As soon as this happened I felt like every cell in my body was a little demon using a sledge hammer like a golf club trying to knock my insides out of my body."
Umm.. was that a regular electric fence? Have you tried it ever since to see if it was just you being a 10 year old?
Anyways - if I need to check if an electric fence is working (which happens several times a year) I just grab it with one hand and touch the ground with the other. The current is low so even if it's pulses of ~5000 volts it doesn't hurt much. It only hurts if you don't grab it firmly enough and it makes a spark, causing the electricity to enter your body at just one tiny spot.
@Moocat: "Is there some other type where it hurts instead of temporarily freezing up your muscles?" - electricity (theres just one type) can really really hurt yes. My grampa had his hair burned off and 2nd degree burns all over his face and hands - if not for his glasses he'd be blind.
What many people don't know though is that what's harmful is current, i.e. when high amounts of electrons flow trough your body - heating up the tissue as it passes. High voltage between two objects doesn't necessarily mean that much current will flow between them if they're connected by a conductor - but a high supply of electrons at the negative side does. - DeathonWheels, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4Raab Himself did this in a CKY video. He was naked except for a red cape and it hurt him pretty good.
- dawgma, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4He must have had thick, ropey jets
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3What they proved on mythbusters was that it won't stay a steady stream. The man in the video probably got startled from the arc and simply fell over backwards...
- JohnnyRad, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1it was a lot funnier in tommy boy
- finnodave, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1oh dear god... I don't care if that was real or not, the pain I just felt from watching that was like death
- otherwiseguy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1As someone who has personally disproved (I didn't know that Grandpa's backyard fence was electric) their busting of the myth, I can tell you that if you stand near the fence and piss on it, you will get shocked (and it really hurts).
- NSMike, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Even if you had known that it was an electric fence, you wouldn't have been able to let go. Your muscles contract and the grip tightens, well beyond your ability for your brain to override it. I saw pictures a few years back of a guy grabbing a high tension wire, high on PCP. One picture, he was nothing but a while ball, and even with high tension, he was gripping tight enough and convulsing enough to bend the wire.
- WebCester, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1@lionhart
The other difference being a few feet for the urine to travel.
Also, tr0tsky is correct. The Mythbusters had pressure on the stream. - linkcma, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Good thing the pile of snow was there to break his fall.
- naymlis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1warsow style: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4u8qBQ1oUsw
- arnar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1@nsmike: an electric fence isn't a constant flow of electricty, it's just short (
- SomaSynth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Mythbusters couldn't prove water is wet. The only myth they've busted is that broadcast TV can hold a competent science program. Don't get me wrong, I watch it, it's entertaining, it does that well.
- tr0tsky, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1@jonnymj
No, when they did it on mythbusters Adam timed how long it took him to pee, and they used that to get the velocity of urine leaving him, then they had it rigged so that it did the same. It wasn't just gravity. - tektalk, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1You also forgot your proper grammar skills.
- nottidredd, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3my cousin and his friends put together a video parody of this song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlWkOVmGsgw
- omega6, on 10/11/2007, -7/+6They did this urban myth on mythbusters. He would've had to been extremely close and he would have had to have a completely solid stream of urine, which in most cases doesn't happen. Although, he does look pretty close to the fence so who knows. The music accompanying the clip is really waht makes this clip tho.
- liveify, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1i 4get was the mythbusters right or wrong
- dutchdorr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0This is BS. The Myth Busters did a bit about this and found that this would not happen.
- potatomato, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1People should just stick to urinals and toilets.
Just another video to aid in proving the monkey-to-eventually-man evolution theory.
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