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



Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Adam,

He says he does it by muscular action. The guy is also a MD and uses what he can do to help treat people. In action you see him tense up and see his arm shaking. If he's only passing 600V at high enough current to start damp paper on fire, he should be dead. But if he's generating, as he claims, then he might be immune to the current.

David E Weiss

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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Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: Electricity guy on Ripley's Believe it or Not


> 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 > >