[144821] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet mauled by bears
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Buhrmaster)
Mon Sep 19 22:04:10 2011
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:02:33 +0000
From: Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com>
To: Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:49, Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com> wrote:
> And if they turn up the voltage on the fence high enough, dinner could be
> cooked by the time the crew gets there!
Not quite. The point of the electric fence is to discourage
moooving through it, but you do not want to kill (or
seriously injure) your livestock. That, however does not
always work as expected. Cows are really dumb creatures.
And while an electric fence may discourage them, I have
seen the extra special ones just lounge against the electric
fence for a long time (I presume until the brain notices that
something does not feel right, so perhaps they should
consider, but only consider, being somewhere else).
On a good day the cow goes (or does not go) where you
want it. On a bad day you repair the electric fence.
Gary
