Re: Electricity guy on Ripley's Believe it or Not

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Original poster: "Mercurus2000" <mercurus2000@xxxxxxx>

Are you saying he's producing the current from his body, or merely passing
it? The electric eel comment threw me off.
Adam
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> Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi David,
>
> I caught something like that from a different source.  Only when he
> was doing it, his arm was shaking and the muscles looked very tensed
> up.  He could set fire to a sheet of damp paper after about 10-15
> secs with the current passing from his hand to the paper, then to the
> concrete below. Nowhere to be seen were any wires.  He could crank
> out around 600V.  He says he does it the same way an electric eel does.
>
> Too bad we can't get him for our testing!
>
> David E Weiss
>
> >Original poster: "David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I just happened to catch a segment of a rerun of
> >Ripley's Believe It or Not on TV last night and there
> >was some guy on there in India that could SUP-
> >POSEDLY pass electrical current through various
> >parts of his body to light up light bulbs, TVs, and
> >even run a waffle iron. I found this quite suspicious
> >as I could detect no involuntary muscular contraction
> >in him upon contact. He was supposedly even passing
> >what I would assume to be either 120 VAC or 220 VAC
> >(not sure what India's appliances voltage requirements are)
> >through his tongue to turn on these various appliances.
> >In this case, I personally have to go with the "NOT" of
> >Ripley's Believe It or NOT. Irregardless of a person's
> >so-called immunity to the pain of electrical current
> >passing through their tissues, they are NOT going to
> >break Ohm's Law and I don't see 120 or 220 volts
> >being able to overcome the body's resistance enough
> >to push sufficient current through it to power common
> >household appliances. And if that much current did
> >actually pass through the body, it would  most certainly
> >cause severe thermal damage to the affected  body tissues
> >and almost certain death if passed through any vital area
> >of the body. I think Ripley's was trying to
> >"hoodwink" us on this one or maybe they were hoodwinked
> >theirsleves by this gentleman from India. I figure that
> >he was probably using a sensitive capacitive feedback
> >circuit that was triggered by his touching with any part
> >of his body, much like a touch lamp circuit. Thoughts?
> >
> >David Rieben
> >
> >
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