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Shockinly Correct

2007 Reader Submission
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In my college History class, we were talking about stupid things we have done, and one of my fellow classmates, who we shall call Zack, told us how he broke his femur. He and his buddy (we will call Jack), were drinking in his front yard, and shooting squirrels with a BB gun. When a car driven by another buddy of Zack (We will call Pack), had started to drink before coming over, runs into a utility pole. A wire from this pole falls into a near by tree, forgetting about Pack; Zack and Jack debate on whether or not the wire was an electric or telephone wire. Zack believed that it was an electric wire and in order to prove that it was, he climbed the tree to have a “closer look”. When he reached the wire, he realized he was on the wrong side to see the writing on the wire, so he tries to climb around the wire, but unfortunately he steps on a weak branch, according to Jack “that branch was no bigger then a pencil”, which snapped as Zack put his weight on it. Zack instinctively reached out and grabbed the nearest thing to him, and lord and behold he grabbed the wire, only to find out that he was correct that the wire was an electric wire! Zack receiving thousands of jolts of electricity, lucky form him his convulsions knocked form the wire, unfortunately for him he was still up in the tree, and now with nothing to support him he fell from the tree. Hitting 17 branched on his way down…. He awoke two days later with only a broken femur to remember it.

Submitted on 02/07/2007

Submitted by: Steven Feldman
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James said:
Neutral: Personal Account
This sounds alarmingly like a true DA we received a while ago, but the sequence of events is somewhat diferent. While I'll wager "Zack" exaggerated this a bit, it's funny enough to include as a PA! Thanks, Steven!

Graham said:
Neutral: Personal Account
This sounds like a scene right out of Laurel and Hardy! It'll make for a great cartoon.

Jack said:
Neutral: Personal Account
Yes, it does have that old time cartoony effect. Good story, Steven.

Chip said:
Neutral: Personal Account
Was he counting branches on the way down? Thanks for the story, Steven

Shadow said:
Neutral: Personal Account
A "shocking" personal account of "Hey is there electricity in this wire?" Thanks for the Submission

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