From: jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: Street lights
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:57:12 GMT
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University

From article <1992Aug25.193038.17016@math.utah.edu>, by  ():
> 
> 
> MOre about this below:
> 
>>In article <1992Aug25.051521.8258@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, rnakkula@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robin J Nakkula) writes:
>> 
>> >Enough magnetism to trip a relay at the top of a light pole that is
>> >surrounded by metal would distort tv screens, play havoc with digital
>> >watches, and etc. Also, if the relays were that easy to trip, passing cars
>> >would probably do it with the magnetism generated from the electrical
>> >system. Heck, the power flowing to the light might even do it.
>> >
>> >Disclaimer: I could be totally off base about this. It's been a while since
>> >college physics.
>> >
>> >------
>> >Mel Walker                                          mwalker@novell.com
>> 
>> 
>> For a while there, when the exhaust system to our '78 Audi was disconnected
>> (we hadn't counted on the new muffler installation to be >that< incompetent
>> to fall off in 1 week, and were saving up $300 for replacement of the
>> anterior original equipment,) almost every time we would drive by a set
>> outo theft alarm, we would set it off.  What was more amusing was the times
>> when my fiance and I seemed to be able to do the same thing on foot, walking
>> down the opposite side of the street.
>> 
>> When we finally got the muffler system reconnected and the noise level down,
>> the theft alarm triggering incidents subsided, though not immediately -- they 
>> seemed to taper off instead.
>> 
>> @@@---Robin N.
>> 
>> 
> 
> I 've had the problem with streetlights all my life. Sometimes I'm approaching in my ca
> in my car, sometimes on foot-actually it doesn't need to be car.
> Sometimes the lights come _on_, but usually they go out (70/30)
> 
> I also can't keep a watch working. I seem to go through watches every couple of mont
> months, and the watch repair guys say it's NOT the battery-they don't kinow what makes it go dea
> what makes it go dead. But I have to buy new ones constatnly.
> And blow dryers. I go through those like crazy. Now that I think about it,
> I seem tyo be replacing all kinds of small appliances all the time.
>

I had a fiance once who had that problem with watches.  She found
that if she wore one of the wide leather bands that were popular
in the mid-seventies, the problem cleared up.
 
> I got a couple of good jolts as a young person. Once I was screwing the cover plate onto a
> plate onto an outlet (my dad said the current was off). Of course it wasn't and the 
> the screwdriver slipped into the socket. I was knocked back about 4 feet and tipped over the (metal)
> tipped over the metal ladder I was sitting on at the time.
> ANother time I was a work at a fast food place and the repairman was working on the 
> the ice machine. I had to squeez by-I had a damp rag in my hand and a foot in a op
> a puddle of melted ice. Again, the guy said it was turned off,
> but a jolt went through one arm and down the other. Not a bad sensation though, just a 
> just a kind of a "charge" that time that got my heart goin...
> 
> So, are previous shock victims cursed for life to drain the juice of electrical
> devices?
> Is this why my scooter battery keeps going dead?
>

You certainly seem to be playing hell with your computer keyboard
;-{). 
-- 
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Though all the world betrays thee.
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