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[Kevin Moore <aleguy33@yahoo.com>]

I agree. I used to live on a suburban lot that backed on to a pasture with an electric fence when I was four and five. I was old enough to read, but I still remember the shocks were more of a shock than painful. Really not much worse than the static shocks you sometimes get in the winter.

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From: Mark Angermayer <hangermayer@isp.com>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:02:34 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Neighbors

Melissa,

 

I have to speak from my own experience.  What farm kid hasn't been shocked by an electric fence?  In fact what farm kid hasn't played a prank and grabbed an electric fence while hanging onto another kid (thereby delivering the voltage to the innocent bystander).  Electric fences, while somewhat painful, are not dangerous.

 

Mark

KS

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From: Melissa Kacalanos

To: North American Fruit Explorers

Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:34 PM

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Neighbors

Priorities. I realize this is a fruit group, but really, inflicting "significant" pain on children too young to read is rather a high price to pay for fruit, isn't it? Assurances that it's not enough electricity to actually kill people are missing the point.

Melissa

--- On Tue, 5/12/09, Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu> wrote:

From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Neighbors
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 6:00 PM

At 04:37 PM 5/12/2009, Melissa wrote:
>Come on, this is a neighborhood, with kids in it, not farmland. If
>there isn't a local ordinance against electric fences, there should be.

Melissa,
A properly-constructed and energized electric fence is not an
electrocution hazard - but done correctly, the 'pain potential' is
significant, and may be the most effective deterrent to wildlife
depredation on your garden/orchard.
Certainly in a residential setting, it would be advisable/necessary
to attach those "Warning! Electric Fence!" placards to warn kids or
unsuspecting 'townies' that if they touch or try to climb through the
fence that they're at risk of receiving a substantial shock.   I
guarantee you it would be a lesson quickly learned, but not dangerous
in the least.

Lucky

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