Attached wires to Human Genitals

Malsua

[Malsua]

Forgive the vanity please, but I've not seen this addressed.

John Kerry said: "We attached telephone wires to human genitals and cranked up the voltage" or some such.

I'm perplexed. The prominent comm equipment used in vietnam was 12-15 volts.

Isn't skin resistivity higher than that? Certainly you can apply enough voltage with hand crank devices, but if it's only putting out 12-15 volts...wouldn't nothing happen?

I'm not suggesting anyone try this, but 15 volts won't hurt unless you put water on it or something. Could someone clear this up for me?

[Jim Robinson]

All right, knock it of. Both of you. If this continues you will both earn a suspension.

[Souled_Out]

"I thought you said you were an electrician? You must not have been much of one. The hand generators you are referring to did not have a negative and positive lead. They put out alternating current...."

WRONG

Please reference post #102

[babygene]

OK, I checked out post 102; "Kerry made this up - He never did it. He wanted to, but he never got the opportnity to exercize this one fetish of his.."

How does this make me wrong? Crank telephone generators were indeed AC not DC. If by chance you are referring to megers (I have one in my shop) the current is in micro-amps. Not pleasant, but not painfully either.

[Diogenesis]

This is true.

What you are not considering is that te amount of damage depends upon the
the total power, and thus the current. You dont get
enough from the spark plug, except to reach the underlying muscle.

[Diogenesis]

Any book on advanced General Surgery.
Try Schwartz, for example.

Go to the chapter on debridement on electrical burns.

If you can't find it. let me know by private mail.

[aruanan]

Take a quick refresher course in dialectrics before you become too smug.

I think your smugness detector is set at too high a sensitivity.

[No_Outcome_But_Victory]

Speaking of genitals, didn't Kerry get operated on at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for prostate cancer? Why isn't this medical issue being addressed?

SMOKESCREEN.

[Souled_Out]

Sorry, I meant post 106.

Obviously there are only two leads (positive and negative).

I never meant to imply, and I certainly did not state, that the stories are true, only that this was one of many stories told at the time.

It was a common joke to get someone to "hold the leads for you" and then crank the handle as everyone watched them jump.

[Diogenesis]

The real answer is because THAT will be Hillary's October surprise.

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[No_Outcome_But_Victory]

The real answer is because THAT will be Hillary's October surprise.

I'm not sure that is evil enough for that wretch.

[Hammerhead]

Wrong area and time.

In 1968, with the goal of single handingly reforming the Arkansas prision system, John F'n Kerry secretly entered the Wakefield State Penitentiary under the code name 'Brubaker'. Upon becoming warden of the prison, one of his first acts of bravery was to discontinue the use of a torture method commonly referred to as 'a phone call'.

[Peace will be here soon]

"Spark is over 20000 volts - something on that order - generated by induction, not 12 volts."

Did you read all the posts? I make basically this same point later on in the thread.

[SALChamps03]

It is far more complicated than that. Pain is felt specifically along pain fibers. The brain for example is loaded with nerve fibers, but no pain fibers, hence, you can perform surgery of the brain with only a local anesthetic to the scalp, skull, and dura. The most painful stimuli actually occur at the cornea of the eye and dental pain. If I had to choose one of these three, I would take genital pain any day over a stick in the eye or a dentist drilling without an anesthetic. Good point.

[rangerX]

Having been hooked up to a TA-312 field telephone with a crank ringer, I can guarantee you that it would smart if somebody hooked it to your nuts. When several of us were hooked up during a little initiation ceremony in one of my old units, it was just hooked to our arms. When the guy on the phone cranked it, it was quite uncomfortable.

[Larry Lucido]

but I always found the actual claymore to be much more effective.

Wasn't one of Kerry's Purple Hearts for taking a claymore blast all by himself, saving his crew? I think it was on his web site.