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I laughed so hard I had to wait 5 minutes for the tears to quit streaming so I could write some type of reply. I just cant seem to think of any response for this situation. Now if you do it a second time then we will start to wonder about you. | ||
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My eyes are watering...Fucking hill-larious!!! Great story | |||
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Quote: Yes Root I know that, I just wanted to see if he would try it again to verify his research. | |||
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Quote: accually the tube itself is one big capacitor... carrying only about 32,000V of juice... and it hurts... alot... (probably not as much as a tazer but still alot) been hit with one of those twice (used to work in electronics repair and well, S@#$ happens) newer set discharge themselves over a few hours but older sets dont... one of the sets I got hit with was unplugged for something like 3 years... oh.. and you are more likley to die from a regular wall outlet then a flyback (the transformer were all the voltage comes from in a TV) as the amperage is very low and volts dont kill amps do. | |||
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Quote: Isn't it actually a very small amount of amps that will kill ya? Something like a couple of amps? I know it doesn't take a whole lot.. | |||
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Quote: Yep, a few miliamps to the heart can interrupt its beat rythm...fortunately your skin (when dry) is an excellent insulator, thereby requiring lots of volts to push a fraction of an amp past it...then your blood is an excellent conductor, distributing those amps widely throughout your body leaving a small fraction to hit your heart...and lots to hit your skeletal muscles making you twitch and convulse like a ragdoll being chewed by a rottweiler http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/construction/electrical_incidents/eleccurrent.html | |||
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Bubba and the Tazar Bubba's story---" My friends are fond of saying that my last words on this earth will be something akin to, "Hey y'all, hold my beer and watch this!" Well,I have outdone myself once again. No doubt you will see this true story chronicled in a LifeTime movie in the near future.Here goes: Last weekend I spied something at Larry's Pistol and Pawn that tickled my fancy. (Note: Keep in mind that my "fancy" is easily tickled. I had gone into the Star Market to pick up some milk yesterday and I bought a superball in the checkout line -- 50 cents.What a bargain! It tickled my fancy--still does.That thing bounces soooooo high, and it has provided me with hours of entertainment. It just doesn't get any better than that, now does it?) I'm so easily distracted. That dang superball is so much fun. So what were we talking about? Oh yeah, I bought something really cool at Larry's Pistol and Pawn! last Saturday.The occasion was my 50th birthday and I was looking for a little something extra cool. What I came across was a 100,000 volt, pocket/purse-sized Tazer gun with a clip. For those of you who are not familiar with this product, it is a less-than-lethal stun gun with two metal prongs designed to incapacitate an assailant with a shock of high-voltage, low amperage electricity while you flee to safety. The effects are supposed to be short lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your assailant, but allowing you adequate time to retreat to safety.You simply jab the prongs into your 250 lb. tattooed assailant, push the button, and it will render him a slobbering, goggle-eyed, muscle-twitching, whimpering, pencil-neck geek. If you've never seen one of these things in action, then you're truly missing out--way too cool! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home. I loaded two triple-a batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button. Nothing! I was so! disappointed. Upon reading the directions (we don't need no stinkin' directions), I found much to my chagrin that this particular model would not create an arch between the prongs. How disappointing! I do love fire for effect. I learned that if I pushed the button, however, and pressed it against a metal surface that I'd get the blue arch of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs that I was so looking forward to. I did so. Awesome!!! Sparks, a blue arch of electricity, and a loud pop!!! Yipeeeeee . . . I'm easily amused. Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn't be all that bad with only two triple-a batteries, etc., etc. There I sat in my recliner, my dog Molly looking on intently (trusting little soul), reading the directions (that would be me, not Molly), and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh and blood target. I must admit I thought about zapping Molly for a fraction of a second and thought better of it. She' such a sweet dog, after all. But, if I was going to use this thing to protect myself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised. Am I wrong? Was I wrong to think that? Seemed reasonable to me at the time . So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, Tazer in another. The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a loss of bodily control;a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water. All the while I'm looking at this little device (measuring about 5" long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference, pretty cute really, and loaded with two itsy, bitsy triple-a batteries) thinking to myself, "no bloody way!" What happened next is almost beyond description, but I'll do my best. Those of you who know me have got a pretty good idea of what followed. I'm sitting there alone, Molly looking on with her head cocked to one s ide as to say, "don't do it daddy," reasoning that a one-second burst from such a tiny lil' ole thing couldn't hurt all that bad (sound, rational thinking under the circumstances, wouldn't you agree?). I decided to give myself a one-second burst just for the hell of it. (Note: You know, a bad decision is like hindsight--always twenty-twenty. It is so obvious that it was a bad decision after the fact, even though it seemed so right at the time. Don't ya hate that?). I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and Holy F***ing s**t! DAMN!!! I'm pretty sure that Jessie Ventura ran in through the front door, picked me up out of that recliner, then body slammed me on the carpet over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, nipples on fire, soaking wet, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position. Molly was standing over me making whimpering sounds I had never heard before, licking my face, undoubtedly thinking to herself, "do it again daddy, do it again!" (Note: If you ever feel compelled to mug yourself with a Tazer, one note of caution. There is no such thing as a one-second burst when you zap yourself. You're not going to let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by the violent thrashing about on the floor. Then, if you're lucky, you won't dislodge one of the prongs 3/4" deep in your thigh...like yours truly.) SON-OF-A-GUN that hurt! A minute or so later (I can't be sure, as time was a relative thing at this point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape. My reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace. How did they get there??? My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching. My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, as my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs.,give or take an ounce or two. Yours Truly, Bubba | |||
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Mr. Darwin, we have a winner! Paul B. | |||
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I've just printed your story out for everyone at my work to read! That is FUNNY! | |||
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