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1 posted on 12/05/2005 9:01:28 PM PST by Jo Nuvark
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To: Jo Nuvark
When Kerry was in the service, you could take a DC field phone and use it to shock someone.

He is living in his past make-believe world again.

2 posted on 12/05/2005 9:03:10 PM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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Yes-it used to be a routine practice here in the Arkansas prison system. Well, not killing, but severely shocking them. BUT, I assume it could kill a human...


4 posted on 12/05/2005 9:07:39 PM PST by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist!)
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To: Jo Nuvark

Kerry is as a big a moron as he is a liar.


5 posted on 12/05/2005 9:08:14 PM PST by msf92497 (Uh Oh)
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I've heard that you could fish with a hand crank phone coil.

I'm sure that some one can be electrocuted if the heart can be crossed.

6 posted on 12/05/2005 9:12:18 PM PST by oyez (Appeasement is death!)
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Well, my ex-landlord complained about getting a big shock from the phone wires while remodeling. I guess people don't realize how much juice is in those wires. But I'm pretty sure if it was enough to electorcute you there'd be more awareness of it. I guess there is also no way to shut that power off, so it can't be a lethal dose. (Notice how I skillfully avoided using specific electrical terms such as current, voltage, etc. I know the limits of my knowledge eh? That's why I won't touch any of this stuff!)


7 posted on 12/05/2005 9:12:58 PM PST by jocon307
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Only if you accidently drop it in the bathtub with him........Or is that a blowdryer?? I can't stay "current."


13 posted on 12/05/2005 9:19:50 PM PST by colorcountry (That's what happens when you fall for a pistol. (No, no, I don't mean no gun.))
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To: Jo Nuvark

One can use an AN/PVS-12 (Field Phone) to do this - usually painful, not fatal. It can be made fatal, but why bother - easier to bash the other guy's head in with a rock.


14 posted on 12/05/2005 9:20:23 PM PST by patton ("Hard Drive Cemetary" - forthcoming best seller)
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Can you really electrocute someone using a telephone?

How badly do you want to know?

20 posted on 12/05/2005 9:26:20 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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Odds are against killing anyone, but you can piss them off bad enough to hurt you, if they get loose!
Kerry is never speaking to anyone who knows much about anything, his audience is a blank slate. They will believe anything, if it is shouted loud enough.
DID YOU KNOW THAT HOOP SNAKES HOLD THEIR TAIL IN THEIR MOUTH, AND ROLL DOWN HILLS TO CATCH YOU?
This must be true, or else, they wouldn't call them "Hoop Snakes", would they?
Truth does not mean diddly squat, perception is everything, P.T. Barnum lives!


23 posted on 12/05/2005 9:27:56 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (LET ME DIE ON MY FEET IN MY SWAMP, ALEX KOZINSKI FOR SCOTUS)
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To: Jo Nuvark

The old style hand crank domestic phone generators could put out quite a wallop -- 75-80 volts at a couple of amps. That would light your lamp. So it depends on exactly what equipment was being used. But the shock could kill at those levels, it would surely hurt like hell.


24 posted on 12/05/2005 9:28:54 PM PST by Tarpon
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To: Jo Nuvark

As others have said, a field phone can definitely deliver a shock. It is a classic method of torture. I believe this has been dipicted in films although I can not name one with certainty.


28 posted on 12/05/2005 9:32:35 PM PST by LK44-40
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Normally it takes 30VAC to feel an effect. The ringer is ~ 75VAC. You could handle the bare wires until someone calls. If someone calls, you'll get a 30HZ zap.
59 posted on 12/05/2005 10:18:22 PM PST by spunkets
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I work with electricity all the time. The most I got shocked with was 80,000 volts with almost no current. Threw me but I lived.The one that hurt the most was 90 volts D.C. with all the current you wanted. D.C. is worse cause it makes your muscle lock up hard, real hard. Hard enough to pop ligaments and tear tendons and stuff like that. Hurts alot and you can't let go. P.S. the stuff right out of the wall has a good bite to it too.


81 posted on 12/05/2005 11:31:19 PM PST by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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