Something to think about before you Mow your yard

FishyFish

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I thought this to be Funny, I hope no one is offended, If so please strike it out. :cool:



We have the standard 6 ft. fence in the backyard, and a few months ago, I heard about burglaries increasing dramatically in the entire city. To make sure this never happened to me, I got an electric fence and ran a single wire along the top of the fence. Actually, I got the biggest cattle charger Tractor Supply had, made for 26 miles of fence. I then used an 8 ft. long ground rod, and drove it 7 1/2 ft. into the ground. The ground rod is the key, with the more you have in the ground, the better the fence works.

One day I'm mowing the back yard with my cheapo Wal-Mart 6 hp big wheel push mower. The hot wire is broken and laying out in the yard. I knew for a fact that I unplugged the charger. I pushed the mower around the wire and reached down to grab it, to throw it out of the way. - - - - It seems as though I hadn't remembered to unplug it after all!!

Now I'm standing there, I've got the running lawnmower in my right hand and the 1.7 giga-volt fence wire in the other hand. Keep in mind the charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down cow on fire on the cover.

Time stood still.

The first thing I notice is my pecker trying to climb up the front side of my body. My ears curled downwards and I could feel the lawnmower ignition firing in the backside of my brain. Every time that Briggs & Stratton rolled over, I could feel the spark in my head. I was literally at one with the engine. It seems as though the fence charger and the piece of sh-- lawnmower were fighting over who would control my electrical impulses.

Science says you cannot crap, pee, and vomit at the same time. I beg to differ. Not only did I do all three at once, but my bowels emptied 3 different times in less than half of a second. It was a Matrix kind of bowel movement, where time is creeping along and you're all leaned back and BAM BAM BAM you just crap your pants 3 times. It seemed like there were minutes in between but in reality it was so close together it was like exhaust pulses from a big block Chevy turning 8 grand. At this point I'm about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto the fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I can't let go. I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences... but Dad always had those piece of **** chargers made by International or whoever that were like 9 volts and just kinda tickled. This one I could not let go of. The 8 foot long ground rod is now
accepting signals from me through the permadamp Ark-La-Tex river bottom soil. At this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to just man up and take it, until the lawnmower runs out of gas.

"Damn!," I think, as I remember I just filled the tank!"

Now the lawnmower is starting to run rough. It has settled into a loping run pattern as if it had some kind of big lawnmower race cam in it. Covered in poop, pee, and with my vomit on my chest I think, "Oh God please die .... Pleeeeaze die."

But nooooo, it settles into the rough lumpy cam idle nicely and remains there, like a big bore roller cam EFI motor waiting for the go command from its owner's right foot. So here I am in the middle of July, 104 degrees, 80% humidity, standing in my own backyard, begging God to kill me. God did not take me that day . . . he left me there covered in my own fluids to writhe in the misery my own stupidity had created. I honestly don't know how I got loose from the wire . . .

I woke up laying on the ground hours later. The lawnmower was beside me, out of gas. It was later on in the day and I was sunburned. There were two large dead grass spots where I had been standing, and then another long skinny dead spot where the wire had laid while I was on the ground still holding on to it. I assume I finally had a seizure and in the resulting thrashing had somehow let go of the wire. Upon waking from my electrically induced sleep I realized a few things:

1 - Three of my teeth seem to have melted.

2 - I now have cramps in the bottoms of my feet and my right butt cheek (not the left, just the right).

3 - Poop, pee, and vomit when all mixed together, do not smell as bad as you might think.

4 - My left eye will not open.

5 - My right eye will not close.

6 - The lawnmower runs like a sumbitch now. Seriously! I think our little session cleared out some carbon fouling or something, because it was better than new after that.

7 - My nuts are still smaller than average yet they are almost a foot long.

8 - I can turn on the TV in the game room by farting while thinking of the number 4 (still don't understand this???).

That day changed my life. I now have a new found respect for things. I appreciate the little things more, and now I always triple check to make sure the fence is unplugged before I mow. The good news, is that if a burglar does try to come over the fence, I can clearly visualize what my security system will do to him, and THAT gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, which also reminds me to triple check before I mow.
 

rbh

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Re: Something to think about before you Mow your yard

OH yea.
walked a mile home from the pub this one night, need some relief, it's dark, no problems into the ditch, turn, aim. fire! ZZZAP.
On my butt, and all I can hear is MOOO. :redface:
 

Mr Crabbs

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Re: Something to think about before you Mow your yard

I started to laugh with the upside down burning cow comment and lost it with the next paragraph! :D Tooooooo funny!

Reminds me of the time when I was 14 and tried to climb an electric fence that hadn't been turned on in years. I got hit on my right thigh, left nut and left hand at the same time. :eek: I was off that thing in a hurry!
 

foodfisher

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Re: Something to think about before you Mow your yard

See! God does have a sense of humor.
 

bigdee

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Re: Something to think about before you Mow your yard

That is sooo funny but let me tell a TRUE story of a similar situation. I was having trouble with my dog digging under the chain link fence in my backyard. After numerous complaints from neighbors I decided to do something about this issue. So I ran a wire along the bottom of the fence about six inches off the ground. I had a 10 foot gate in the fence so I stopped the wire at each side of the fence and to maintain continuity I connected a wire with an insulated handle to bridge across the fence. Well one hot summer day I was working in the front yard barefoot and wearing shorts. My wife was working in the backyard when she hollered for help (she always hollers). So I go racing back there and you guessed it! Ran right through the electric wire Yup and wouldn't you know, it broke on the downstream side and the live side curled around both ankles. My legs were tied together and I was getting zapped continuously but worse than that I had installed a fence charger with a weed chopper on it ! Every 2 seconds I would get hit with a voltage that uncontrollably made me jump 2 feet high. Now when I was on the ground I could not utter a sound but when the weed chopper kicked in I could speak while I was airborne. So here I was jumping up and down like some kind of dumb toy trying to tell my wife to turn the da@# thing off. She hollered (she always hollers)back and claimed she did not know where it was plugged in. Finally after I had felt like I had run the Boston marathon she deciphered what I was trying to tell her.......IN-THE-U-TIL-I-TY-RO-OM. Well after she unplugs it I stood there for awhile getting used to the taste of ozone and muscle spasms. My wife comes out of the house five minutes later ( I think it took her that long to get the smile off her face) and asks(without hollering) if I'm OK.
 

tx1961whaler

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Re: Something to think about before you Mow your yard

Oh, she knew where it was the whole time, she knew.......:D
 

bigdee

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Re: Something to think about before you Mow your yard

Commander....."Oh, she knew where it was the whole time, she knew......."

Yes I knew too, but that would just lead to more HOLLERING!
 

aspeck

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Re: Something to think about before you Mow your yard

:D:D:D Good laugh! (especially at bigdee's expense!) :D
 

marlboro180

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Re: Something to think about before you Mow your yard

How do you get get coffee out of yer keyboard?!:eek: Still laughing hard!:eek::D
 

gonefishie

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Re: Something to think about before you Mow your yard

That's seriously funny. I almost lost my lunch.
 

ezbtr

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Re: Something to think about before you Mow your yard

Hilarious!!!!!
 
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