[SOC] Phone repair

[Spencer Sholly]

PHONE REPAIR Lawrence , Kansas, December 12, 2009.

A Kansas farm wife 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.