Re: freak show with tesla coil, please explain

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Original poster: "Terry Blake" <tb3-at-att-dot-net> 

In what part of the country is this show?

Terry Blake

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Subject: Re: freak show with tesla coil, please explain


 > Original poster: PLUGHzz-at-aol-dot-com
 >
 > last night I was at a local amusement park and they had a halloween setup
 > thing going there with a sort of a freak show with guys putting spiks
 > through their arms and fire eating and the likes, but then they brought
 > this girl in a bikini out put her on a table around 3 feet high where she
 > sat then they dragged a ground cable around the table then wheeled out a
 > Large Tesla coil and a pole pig. only chain mail she had on was gloves and
 > she proceeded to hold her hands up and shoot out 4 foot arcs.
 >
 > My question is this : I had read somewhere about misconceptions of the
skin
 > effect and that people would have aches and pains for the rest of their
 > life if they tried this kind of thing, she does shows like 8 times a day.
 >
 > After the show was over I went up to the guy and asked to see his TC setup
 > and he showed me all his components, a very very very very nice setup!
 >
 >