[ARC5] "I Hates Meeces Tuh Pieces!..."

[Robert Eleazer]

My high school physics teacher had worked as an engineer at a local radio station.  As part of the regular end of the broadcast day shut down procedure they would throw a lever that put some buss bars across the terminals of the filter caps and then go into the transmitter cage and vacuum up any dust that had accumulated.  

One evening he entered the cage with the vacuum cleaner, and was waving the metal pipe of the vacuum intake around when ... Bam!

He woke up on the floor, splattered with the melted remains of the vacuum pipe.  He found that a mouse had been sitting in just the right spot and acted as an insulator between the buss bar and the big caps.

Wayne
WB5WSV      
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