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

[Dennis Monticelli]

The NERVE of that little critter!  The least he could have done is die as a
short.

Dennis AE6C

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> 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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