An electric fence can be a good thing or a bad thing. You will notice I have a lot of stories about the electric fencer. My mom is especially sensitive to electric shock and my dad did not even feel it. He would grab a hold of the fence and yell at us kids that we had not fixed the fence. We finally bought him a fence tester to use.
One morning mom and dad were going out to work in the field. Dad had told us kids to check the fence to make sure it was hot. That was a morning chore of ours. Dad got to the fence and grabbed a hold of it and was mad because we had not got the fence hot. He yelled at us to get out and get that fence hot before he got back.
Mom got to the fence and said “Gene are you sure it isn’t hot?” He said that it did not even have a little bit of a zap, it was totally dead. Mom started under the fence and hit the top of her head on the fence and it zapped her. Flat on the ground she went and could not even talk. She said later it felt like her brains were scrambled. She could not get up and dad picked her up and carried her to the house. She finally came around but she always remembered the incident and would never touch a fence again I don’t care if you unhooked it.
We bought dad the fencer and he learned that day to not trust his judgment on the fencer. I know one day I was walking with him and my husband and got my elbow to close to the fence and got zapped and they thought I was having a heart attack or stroke. It just zapped all the brains into mush for a couple of minutes.
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