Watch cyclists try to retrieve a bike ensnared in an electric fence

Though some of our fences will give one heck of a zap, the one around employee housing usually isn’t very strong (my family has horses and the fence we have at home is stronger than the one around housing) and that’s the one that everyone got zapped with the most when it was wet - and it hurts worse when wet. I don’t profess to know anything about setting up fences but there sure seems to be some variability - what the settings are, the fencing material, are there a lot of shorts along the fence (tall grass is a big problem at camp). So it wouldn’t surprise me that the cyclists could have been experiencing a “perfect storm” as it were in terms of just how badly and easily they were getting zapped.

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