Phone Problems
An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to report that her telephone
failed to ring when her friends called and that on the few occasions when it
did ring,
her pet dog always moaned right before the phone rang.
The telephone
repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile
elderly lady. He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set,
and dialed the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring right away, but
then the
dog moaned loudly and the telephone began to ring.
Climbing down
from the pole, the telephone repairman found:
1. The dog was tied
to the telephone system's ground wire via a steel chain and collar.
2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.
3. The dog was receiving
90 volts of signaling current when the phone number was called.
4. After
a couple of such jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate
on
himself and the ground.
5. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus
causing
the phone to ring.
Which goes to show that some problems can be fixed
by pissing and moaning.
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