[BC] KSDK

[Sherrod Munday]

On Monday 30 January 2006 13:16, Alan Kline wrote:
> Ummm...right...the power line just magically reached down and pulled up the
> mast to contact it...
>
> ------ At 10:23 AM 1/30/2006 -0600, The Most Honourable Blake Bowers wrote:
> >They both survived, the on the air person, and
> >a "22 year old promotions staffer". ?The on the air
> >person said it was no ones fault......................

Nah... that's too simple of an explanation.

<Quote from the driver, on the stand in a court room>
Well, you know about how generators and motors work, right judge?  There's 
this principle that shows that moving a wire through a magnetic field 
generates an electrical current, right?  That's how generators work, after 
all.  Well, the converse also holds true: moving a wire through an electric 
field generates a magnetic field.

Well, when I was driving the van, as I drove under the power lines, the 
movement of the metallic mast through the power lines' electric field 
generated a magnetic field so strong that it just literally magnetically 
attracted the mast right up out of the van and into the power line.  When I 
realized what was happening I tried to stop, but the closer I got to the 
power line, the stronger the magnetic effect was, and it just accelerated the 
mast right into the power line.  

It's amazing that the whole van didn't get pulled up into the power lines...

In fact, I think I'd like to sue the manufacturer of that electricity because 
they should know about those dangerous magnetic currents around power 
lines!!!  

Gosh, if it's not the leukemia you get from power lines, those magnetic fields 
can be fatal!

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-- 
Sherrod Munday <smunday at srnradio.com>
Technical Director
Salem Radio Network    (972) 831-1920