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- From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
- Message-ID: <brriqs.6mc@wang.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 23:32:51 GMT
- References: <1992Jul18.175339.10396@newstand.syr.edu> <nhg7cv4@fido.asd.sgi.com> <7480@public.BTR.COM> <7485@public.BTR.COM>
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- thad@btr.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan) writes:
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- >In article <7480@public.BTR.COM> grady@public.BTR.COM ( ) writes:
- >>Just to take this thread on a morbid twist,
- >>does anyone know what voltage and amperage
- >>is used in state executions?
-
- >Dunno, but I've "heard" that a person can be killed using a common 1-1/2V
- >"D" cell battery, some wire, and two needles.
-
- >No, you DON'T strangle the person with the wire, shove the battery down
- >his throat, and bury him under a cross made from the needles! :-)
-
- >As it was related to me years ago, the point (no pun :-) of the needles
- >was to penetrate the epidermis and present the battery's voltage to the
- >highly-conductive "inner" layers of the person's body; if, say, one
- >needle pierced each arm, the current would pass through the heart causing
- >fibrillation leading to death.
-
- >Probably a 12V car battery and jumper cables (with one clamped to, say, the
- >big toe and the other to one's opposing arm) would effect the same result;
- >'twould probably hurt, too! :-)
-
- I crossposted this to (and set followup to) alt.folklore.urban, and
- I'm dying to see if this has come up before. I know that I've heard
- stories about low-voltage electrocutions; wonder if they're just
- wishful thinking......
-
- >Hmmm, what with all the concern about falsely-triggered car alarms awakening
- >neighborhoods, what about having one's car charged up to some potential?
-
- I've heard ULs about this one, too.
-
- >Thief attempts to break in, ZZZ-Z-A-P *P*O*W*. Only a millisecond disturbance
- >to the neighbors, followed by the thief's quiet wimperings! :-)
-
- Wish it were true, too!
-
- Dave
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