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• Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Ok but for real, that wouldn’t work, right? How would them holding it complete the circuit? The circuit is just gonna be from one screw to the top of the pole back through another screw, not the part the person is holding.

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  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I mean, a car battery isn’t going to do anything even if you could complete a circuit. You can just grab the terminals on a car battery, 12V isn’t high enough to be noticeable on dry skin.

    You’d want to solder on the hot lead of an extension cord hooked up to 120 if you wanted to make sure they never touch that pole again.

    Disclaimer: don’t do this, it’ll probably kill.

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    • axexrx@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I think there is potential for some non lethal zapping if done right (one terminal to the poles other to ground)

      Your skin is where most of the body’s resistance is, and electrocution / shock can occur at much lower voltages if applied internally/ to a cut.

      There’s an urban legend about a navy Electrical engineer stopping his heart by trying to measure his internal resistance with a voltmeter- he stabbed one probe into each of his thumbs and the portion of a single volt the meter uses to test resistance going across his heart was enough to cause afib.

      Now, with pole dancing, theres some potential, for a sweaty bikini to make contact with both an electrified pole and the interior of the dancer’s labia, conducting enough electricity to impart a noticeable shock.

      No matter the voltage though, I think the main problem is the body being part of the least resistive, or any, path to ground. Unless the screws holding the bottom of the pole also protruded through the downstairs neighbor’s ceiling, and you run the negative wire out your window and into theirs, connecting both ends of the pole to the battery…

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    • Balaquina@lemmy.ca ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      A electric horse fence is a better option. Will zing you but isn’t lethal and also has an intermittent current. Specifically designed to be touched by living things without harm. But stay away from cattle fencing, that can kill someone with a heart condition.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    You can short the terminals on a car battery with your body with no issue, but It might melt the hardware and set the floor on fire! What they should really do is connect a HV source and charge up the pole. Won’t cause any lasting harm, but hopefully it’ll convince them they drove a screw through a live wire.

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  • red_tomato@lemmy.world ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Not if the person two floors downstairs is in on it

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  • HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Nah, that wouldn’t. But if you connected just the hot line (right eye of the outlet smiley face) that would do it. Wouldn’t recommend it because you could kill them by electrocution or kill even more people with a fire.

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• ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Hammer and punch them back down. Or drip lube down the bolts so it makes the pole unusable.

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• starik@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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