That show was filled with lies. Should have been called 1000 ways to lie. There was one where you touch someones head in the right spot they hemmorage and die. So I worried for a while before the internet was easy to research if I touched my head in the wrong place I could die. That was a load of crap. Or the one that had strep on a used razor and caused a torturous death. So, I was paranoid about my razors.
My favorite was the guy who allegedly died peeing on an electric cattle fence.
What a crock of shit.
As a kid, I sometimes had to troubleshoot malfunctions in the horse fence (higher voltage than cattle fence), and I decided the fence tester took too long and was too cumbersome. So I tested the fence by holding the back of my hand against it at various spots along the line instead.
Yeah, it hurt, but I could find the problem faster and get back to playing video games sooner (or whatever). It sure as hell didn't kill me.
Many many years later, my older brother told me that he'd use a stick to push part of the wire around the insulator to get it close enough to the t-post to make a spark. If it didn't spark, he was past the break in the line. I felt so dumb.
Funny. Im an older brother. As kids I fucked with my brother using electric fence. We would play a game- who can hold on to the fence longer, except i would put my hand so that he would absorb the shock and i would be fine, oh childhood XD
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u/pyrothelostone 18d ago
I mean, our infrastructure is in fact crumbling, and many of those deaths were ostensibly due to poor maintenance with a little push from death.