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Like a Swarm of Bees Flying into his Shorts
Star Tribune | Submitted by: theBethOne
A bike bridge built too close to power lines is delivering "low voltage jolts" to bicyclists and has been closed for evaluation: "One local bicyclist [says] that he rode his bike across it last spring and felt a sensation like a swarm of bees flying into his shorts." Two stories, one of which is AP and the other Star Tribune.
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From: darkshadow [Dahhkness]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 14:35
Swarm of bees in my shorts? Sign me up.
From: other [unclassified]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 14:50
Those painted on shorts on guys that show hairs and hemorrhoids in detail are just gross. New definition to Trolling, for...
From: pandora [stay outta my box!]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 15:16
I wonder how many times the guy rode his bike back and forth, back and forth, over the bridge before he came up with that stunning description of what it felt like. Did he leave a $20 for the bridge afterwards for its services?
From: piscivore [Michael C. Scott]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 15:18
Bees in the shorts? Is that anything like ants in the pants?
From: sp00k
Date: 3-Jul-2008 15:33
He also said that the bridge and nearby power lines were all built within specifications. ===== So it was designed to give shocks then?
From: gargoyle1
Date: 3-Jul-2008 15:47
Sounds like an inductive field from the power lines. Bet if they just ground it really good it'll stop.
From: crapola
[Quit_Bitchin]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 15:50
A bridge that can give me a sinful tingle in my loins! ZOUNDS! Don't let the muslims know about this; they are a bit sensitive about such...  ...crap.... Too late.
From: sp00k
Date: 3-Jul-2008 16:10
From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened] Date: 3-Jul-2008 15:47 Sp00k, there is a little known paving material made of used tires. Sounds like the perfect place for them to lay some down. ===== Easy and cheap. They'll never do it.
From: pontius
Date: 3-Jul-2008 16:12
From: sp00k Date: 3-Jul-2008 15:28 Why don't they build it out of wood? ------------------- Why, so that it floats like a duck, and if the biker weighs as much as a duck, he can be burned as a witch?
From: snowwhite [SnowWhite]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 16:31
We have a similar situation on a local bike trail. You can actually hear the current leaking off the overhead high tension wire. It's only 12 to 15 feet about the trail, but that puts it only 5 to 8 feet above the top of a rider's head. If it's a 20K line, then the electrostatic volts per inch between the wire and top of the head gives you some idea of the differential of voltage between the rider's head and foot; about 10K volts. The current isn't strong enough to more than barely feel normally, but in the reported case it seems that something is causing the power line to bleed more current at that site than normal. If a person had straightened out a coat hanger and then put a hook in one end so it could be winged up there to hang down, you could probably blow a person off their bike without killing them.
From: rotteneggs13
[a bakers dozen]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 17:36
From: gargoyle1 Date: 3-Jul-2008 14:33 Eggsy, wanna go for a bike ride? -----+-----+----- Absolutely Goyle. You read my mind, LOL. Hmmmmmm, electric jolts to the crotch area, ecstacy. Even better would be to make the bicycle seat like a sybian and then ride this trail. (RE13 runs off to kill some kittens)
From: roaddog [pclynn]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 18:01
Nothin like a nice easy day on the ole bike path and when you buzz over the bike bridge, you get your nuts roasted and yout cock fried off. Bet it implodes the ole hemmoroid too. There are people out there who would pay good money to let this happen to them.
From: robotpope [Kiss my Titanium ass]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 20:56
 Watch out for the Amps!
From: dikwitha [Dik]
Date: 3-Jul-2008 22:09
Why bother, just put your cell phone on vibrate and place it in your shorts and have your friends call you quite often. You won't need a bike. Ya heard me?
From: ihateimmigrants [But I love my Mexican girlfriend!]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 04:25
Here's a video of an exposed under ground cable. It even sounds like a beehive of excited bees! Hahaha, and the guy even found it while biking! Maybe him and the guy in the article are one and the same. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV3ho45OzQg
Updated: 4-Jul-2008 13:25
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