http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=229490&in_page_id=2

ISTR an episode of "Mythbusters" that suggested this wasn't possible
(the stream would probably stops being a continuous one by the time it
hit the live rail and thus wouldn't be able to conduct), although
given the reports say he "walked onto the track" perhaps he
accidentally made contact with the electrified line another way.

~cj

"According to the Sun, the man was in Britain in an attempt to improve his English."



But not including "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh" presumably.

michael adams

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"michael adams" onetl.net.uk> wrote in message
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On 22 Jul, 17:52, "michael adams" onetl.net.uk> wrote:

You do encounter some right ***dicks*** in newsgroups.

cosmo.johnson@googlemail.com wrote:

Who the hell is going to do the job that he would have stolen of an
English worker now?

Here to improve his scrounging more like.

Brian.

On 22 Jul, 20:05, Brian Robertson wrote:

Do you think you could kindly bugger off?

Many years ago, when telephone lines were in
very short supply, 'party lines' were common.
A party line, officially known as 'shared service',
meant 2 premises sharing the same pair of wires.

Incoming calls to one or the other were separated
by arranging the 75 volt AC bell ringing current to
travel out via one or other of the pair of wires and
return to the exchange via 'earth'. This required
driving a metal spike into the ground and connecting
the bell's return path via 3-strand bare copper wire.

One day I was called to a farm which had reported
their dog howling in distress every time the phone
rang. We sometimes had a laugh at the wording of
some customer's reports but I went down to the farm
all the same. I asked the operator to ring me back
and sure enough, the dog gave first a little yelp and
then a painful howl. After a few trials I went out into
the yard to see the dog repeating the cycle, peeing
as it did so. This couldn't be a coincidence, nor was it.

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And some people who are very easily shocked by the looks of things.

michael adams

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On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:24:34 GMT, "Eddie Bellass"
blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: