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PHONE REPAIR
A Kansas farm wife called the local phone company
to report her telephone
failed to ring when her friends called - and
that on the few occasions,
when it did ring, her dog always moaned
right before the phone rang.
The telephone repairman proceeded
to the scene, curious to see this
psychic dog or senile lady. He climb
ed a telephone pole, hooked in his
test set, and dialed the
subscriber's house.
The phone didn't ringright away, but then
the dog moaned 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 with 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 number was
called.
4. After a couple of jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate.
5. The wet ground
would complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to
ring.
Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by
pissing and moaning.