But I keep laughing. [linkie]
No, it’s not. I don’t like that kind of movie either.
I think I shouldn’t watch.
Biggest humor here?
Deputy Dave Pimentel (PIM’-en-tel)
They felt they had to tell you how to stress his name?
“I don’t want people callin’ me ‘Deppity pim-EN’-tel!”
-A followup in the news today reported the poor fellow died from touching the downed line with his hand- apparently while letting fly. No less tragic a death but a less sensational story.
I have a neighbor who’s dad was drunk and did that. He didn’t know he was peeing on an electric fence. He killed himself.
An electric fence that can kill a man, drunk or sober, is an electric fence that will kill livestock. This is not striking me as all that plausible.
I’ve installed more than a few miles of hotwire over the years. Even weed burner wire will just knock you off your feet with little residual affect. I was seriously electrocuted over thirty years ago, it still hurts, did permanent damage to my vascular and neural system, not to mention blowing out most of my hair, at least that’s what I like to think. 
I am sorry. I asked my neighbor, and he said the electric fence shocked him and some how he was either unconscious or couldn’t get up, and he drowned in a mud puddle. I think and electric shock flowing up in your body would be enough to knock one out. No matter how small the voltage is.
ohm
volts hurt, amps kill
There have been times when I bumped into hot wire a couple of times a week, never knocked me out but it always knocked me down. On the other hand I have had raccoons who think that hotwire is the neatest stuff since water, “Oh! It tickles! Let’s do that again!” Weed burner will knock them on their butt though, and they will sound like they was murdered, which they weren’t. One day a co-worker and I hit some lines when we were moving an aluminum ladder, that hurt, but it was because that ladder landed on top of us.
it does help if you stand in a puddle 
Back when I was a kid, a neighbor toddler had been digging into a wall outlet (fork, fingers, who knows), and got a nasty shock. Pronounced safe and sound and back home from the emergency look-see, he went up to the offending outlet and expressed his opinion by peeing on it. Oh, well. Back to the hospital.
That happened to my dad in his leaky basement during his third marriage. My stepbrother was old enough to knock him loose with a broom. While trying to help him upstairs the old fella fell and broke his L4 and L5. He lost a little height after that so we kids joked about his “shorting experience.”
So how come that fence doesn’t electrocute canids? They’re far likelier to pee on a fencepost than any human, and being a third to a fifth of the body mass of an adult human, they ought to be easier to kill. Yet we never hear of such an occurrence.
In the past year or so, at least two dogs have been killed in Toronto by peeing on corroding hydro poles (Dog electrocuted on morning walk), so we know it’s possible, but I’ve never, ever, heard of a lethal electric stock fence. I think your friend is peddling an urban myth.
I believe you have to hit the wire, not the post, for the more spectacular effects to manifest.
Per Wikipedia:
The electrified fence itself must be kept insulated from the earth and from any materials that will conduct electricity, burn, or short out the fence. Thus, fencing must avoid vegetation, and cannot be attached directly to wood or to metal posts. Typically, wood or metal posts are driven into the ground, plastic or porcelain insulators are attached to the posts, and fencing material is attached to the insulators. Other techniques include using fence posts made of non-conducting synthetic materials.
I suspect most dogs are too short to hit the wire with a pee-stream, and anyway, you can bet they’re gonna go for a post every time.
the post should not be hot
doesn’t always work…
this is not one of the palm tree things…this is providing the path to ground
be the path!
True. And besides, a dead canid tells no tales. Short of a forensic inquest I doubt if, for a farmer or rancher, a coyote expired by a fencepost is going to raise any special questions.
In this case, no thank you.