[KC Burke]

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.

[caryatid]

...you could take a DC field phone and use it to shock someone.

Almost anyone who enjoyed listening to the stories of older relatives will remember the stories about hooking up some sort of DC device [usually called a "Shocking Machine" by the bad kids who played with them] to someone's old iron bedstead ... and then you had to turn a hand crank to generate enough electricity to shock someone ...

I never heard of anyone being electrocuted by one of these childish pranks. LOL

[Jo Nuvark]

I read somewhere that this could NOT be done because of amps or volts or something. I know the WWII phones used a hand crank generator. But I don't know if it was amped.

[MissRepresent]

Kerry served in the Military? I didn't know.