Ellisville, Mississippi,
April 12, 2012.
An Ellisville school teacher called the local phone company to report
her telephone failed to ring, when her friends called - and that on the
few occasions, when it did ring, her dog always moaned right before the
phone rang.
The telephone repairman
proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile lady.
He climbed a telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed the
subscriber's house.
The phone didn't ring right away, but then
the dog moaned and the telephone began to ring. climbing down from the
pole, the telephone repairman found:
1 . The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground wire with a steel chain and collar.
2. The wire connection to the
ground rod was loose.
3. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the number was called.
4.. After a couple of jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate.
5. The wet ground would
complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to ring.
Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by
pissing and moaning.
Thought you'd like to know.
1 . The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground wire with a steel chain and collar.
2. The wire connection to the
ground rod was loose.
3. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the number was called.
4.. After a couple of jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate.
5. The wet ground would
complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to ring.
Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by
pissing and moaning.
Thought you'd like to know.
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