[wolfinator]

My grandmother once told me the story of a family she knew back in rural Alabama around the start of the last century. They all died trying to save each other from being electrocuted on a farm fence.

[Abathar]

Oh there is no doubt that when family members are in trouble you just react and not think. If my daughters or son was in there I would probably die right next to them, unless there was a fast and simple device there to allow me to know I could help them without going down myself.

[org.whodat]

They all died trying to save each other from being electrocuted on a farm fence.

This one falls in the prove it category.

[robertpaulsen]

"They all died trying to save each other from being electrocuted on a farm fence."

A proper electric fence controller will deliver a short, high voltage spike about once per second -- plenty of time to disengage. The concept of the electric fence is to discourage animals, not electrocute them.