Diary of an atomic bomb technician

Re:Diary of an atomic bomb technician by PhasmaFelis on Saturday July 26, 2014 @05:18PM (#8090833)

> "At night jack-rabbits electrocuted themselves against the security fences: distant pops and small blossoms of flame."

Yikes. I've never heard of a lethal electric fence before.

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Re:Diary of an atomic bomb technician by Someone on Sunday July 27, 2014 @01:22PM (#8093328)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_of_Death:

The name 'Wire of Death' is an English rendition of one of its popular Dutch names; Dodendraad which can be translated as either "Death wire" or "Wire of the dead". As the war continued and more and more victims fell to the electric fence it became known as simply De Draad meaning "The Wire". To the German authorities it was officially known as the Grenzhochspannungshindernis ("High Voltage Frontier Barrier")

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Re:Diary of an atomic bomb technician by qbrass on Saturday July 26, 2014 @06:54PM (#8091131)

They're also used around maximum-security prisons.

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