As dumb and macho adolescents my older brothers used to take turns shooting jets of urine onto electric fences seeing who was brave enough to make the longest jet. We got the idea from an urban legend of one of our sterile uncles accidentally urinating on a push lawnmowers' sparkplug.

 

Hmm...I often check for bad plug wires by running my hand up and down the wires to feel if I get zapped. And have countless times been zapped when pulling one plug wire or coil wire off while the engine was running and having my fingers too close to the end of the wire. I can say that all it does is give a good tingle. Maybe I'm just weird that way...

 

On the LR, that is prolly correct. Generally, a simple oil filled canister coil puts out between 6k and 14k volts. The performance oil filled canister coils jump up to 30k V. Then you get thehigh output like HEI that can jump anywhere from 40k to 100k V. Lots of fun to play with. Especially you wire one up to the underside of the drivers seat frame....

 

We used to lick our fingers and put them in a light socket on this big old lamp we had. We had to climb up on the back of a big easy chair to do it.

It would knock us for a loop and then we would climb back up and do it again just for fun. But that old 283 coil wire Accel Coil knocked me right out of the seat in that van.

Once we were swimming at a girl friend's ranch. Her dad had a prize bull behind a wooden fence. I walked over to take a closer look at him and did not notice that small wire just inside thatbottom rail, until I propped my foot on the rail and my big toe touched the wire.

My beer went staight up in the air and I was on my butt in the grass.

 

We used to crawl through the electric fence to cross the pasture or chase the horses/cows/whatever.
Wearing a baseball cap I crawled through one time and the button ontop of the hat hit the fence, man did that hurt!!
The fencer was a "weed whacker", if you propped a weed up against it it would actually burn if left there long enough.

 

yeah my grandpa had problems with wet grass grounding out his fence....