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Nearly 70% of men chose to shock themselves instead of being bored for 15 minutes
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There's an electric fence where I volunteer to keep animals out, and apparently it's quite painful if you accidentally touch it, but not lethal. I constantly have to fight my curiosity to know just how painful it is, so I don't blame them.
When I was growing up, a neighbor had an electric fence for their dogs, and a bunch of us bored kids would take turns daring each other to touch it. It hurt like hell.
I worked at a dog kennel and they had small wires on top of the fences to dissuade them from going over. Obviously, it had to be tested. It was like a 9volt battery to the body. It guess one could describe it as painful but I found it more weird than anything. 7/10 did it several times.
Interestingly, the people who owned the kennel also raised horses. That fence I touched on accident and it absolutely sucked. Parts of me were also numb for almost a minute. 1/10 do not recommend
I have one of those electric tennis racket fly swatters. More than once we’ve sat around the campfire shocking ourselves for the fun of it
Well let me tell you. It's a lot more painful if you're barefoot than if you're in work boots. Either way won't blow off a finger, though.
From my one experience on my cousin's farm, it felt like he had given me a solid kick to the ass. I legitimately thought he kicked me in the seat, and asked him why he did it. He said he didn't, it was the electric fence.
Once was enough.
We have hotwires for cows; they're of varying power. The one we use around the home yard is pretty powerful, puts out like 10kV because it's used to run about 2 miles of crossfences.
One day I was crossing a fence in the pens, being careful to not touch the wires with my skin (you can step on the wires just fine and lever yourself around on the top of a fencepost). So as I swing my leg over, my foot slips, and I land with my nuts on the top wire. Now, it's also barbwire, so besides getting my nuts shocked as I land on the wire, I can't pull myself off the wire because the barbs are in my pants and skin. I managed to kinda roll off the fence, getting jolted every second or so, and when I fall the crotch of my pants rip out and the shocks finally end.
Suffice to say, a fence that keeps cows inside is a little bit much to take when you have electrified barbs stuck in your balls and you can't pull away.
So that's my story about getting my testicles fried on a beautiful country day. Fairly sure whatever these students experienced wasn't a patch on my lovely fence-hop.