Cornish drinkers catch a different kind of buzz as pub installs electric fence at bar
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/07/14/cornish_pub_electric_fence/
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As you may well know, or maybe you don't, Britain's watering holes reopened earlier this month to typical scenes of lager louts making merry as though the nation wasn't just emerging from a particularly virulent global pandemic.
Well, in current affairs, we have fuse for drinkers hoping to trouble The Star Inn in St Just for a bevvy. [1]CornwallLive reports that staff had grown so tired of punters ignoring the recommendations [2](2m apart) that they felt the need to give them a friendly jolt.
Announcing the official Reg-approved measure of social distancing: The Osman [3]READ MORE
A polite notice now warns customers not to get too close to each other or staff – along with a "fully wired and charged" electric fence.
Landlord Johnny McFadden told the news site: "It's there for social distancing. Before the fence, people were not following social distancing and were doing as they pleased, but now people take heed to the guidance around social distancing. It's for everybody's benefit."
It seems that the fence has also been used to give particularly soused revellers a short, sharp shock as a couple claimed to have been zapped over the weekend.
For Watt it's worth, the barrier is normally dormant but, Joule as a cucumber, McFadden warned: "It can be turned on."
Based on its height, as photographed by local radio presenter Neill Maguire on Facebook, we agree – it'll hit misbehaving patrons where it Hertz. ®
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[1] https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-pub-installs-electric-fence-4320031
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/27/reg_standards_soviet_social_distancing_measure/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/27/reg_standards_soviet_social_distancing_measure/
[4] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: Puntastic
Wire you feeling standoffish? Do you get a charge out of it?
Re: Puntastic
Don't you lot have Ohms to go to?
Re: Puntastic
Well, I suppose [1]such a fence could be worked with. Now, about that fence on the loo...
[1] https://i2-prod.plymouthherald.co.uk/incoming/article4320113.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_Image-from-iOS-8.jpg
Re: Puntastic
Well it's not the pub's volt if the punters won't behave.
Re: Puntastic
Excellent battery of puns in this news coulomb.
Re: Puntastic
Yes - an ample amount indeed
Re: Puntastic
I love the earthy humor on the Reg
Re: Puntastic
It's well grounded.
Re: Puntastic
The Mho the merrier
Re: Puntastic
The lack of co-ordination brought about by alcohol consumption in the environs of such terror would induce me to stick with an orange henry (though the internet tells me that name for orange & lemonade is unheard of outside my county.)
Can't abide the stuff.
But it does have its uses.
Re: Can't abide the stuff.
The 'lectric or the "Proper Job", or possibly the Navy Rum?
Re: Can't abide the stuff.
Having had a glut of blackcurrants ( to keep on topic) this year I've knocked up several litres of Blackcurrant/Navy Rum and demerara - think Sloe Gin with added thunder and talking ravens! Should work out a lot cheaper when Cornwall starts smuggling full time next year!
Re: Can't abide the stuff.
That blackcurrant & rum concoction sounds interesting. Not something that had occurred to me before, and I'm no stranger to a bit of dabbling with fruit-infused spirits. I think I'll be adding two or three extra things to my shopping list, and giving that a try
Re: Can't abide the stuff.
The hotwire. I only use it in a couple places. Keeping the bears away from my hives is the primary one.
Re: Can't abide the stuff.
I agree.
When designing some lightning simulation test equipment years ago, I had a long discussion with the expert at H&SE. One of the things he told me is that there is no safe level of electric shock and that allowing electric fences is something of a boondoggle, like allowing manual transmissions on cars. They are inherently unsafe but we rely on human intelligence to keep down the accident rate.
Responsible farmers keep the electric fences inside the physical fences, so it's then up to the public. But using them without protection - in my view, the landlord should be made to pay for the installation of a defibrillator, and have staff trained in its use.
Re: Can't abide the stuff.
One of the funniest things I've seen was when on a farm and a visiting labourer tried to step over an electric fence. Something of a vertically-challenged chap, he discovered that the fence had been set at a height about an inch over his inside leg measurement. As he took a step over, he got a jolt through his gentleman's area and jumped in the air...then landed again with one leg each side of the fence, got another jolt...and so it continued until someone could stop laughing long enough to go and disconnect the power.
Re: Can't abide the stuff.
Pfft. Just chuck the body back onto the fence.
Re: Can't abide the stuff.
Manual transmissions unsafe? Is this some sort of USAsian mental deficiency?
Works for the sheep
Now about those cattleprods ..
Re: Works for the sheep
I was thinking more shotgun cartridge on a stick (like divers used to use on sharks in 'nature' programs thirty years ago) for repeat offenders. There something about a lager drunk that means they will keep doing whatever it is you dont want them to do.
BOFH
Bar Operator From Hell
As a former licensee turned IT bod I approve
what happens to the drunk
Who can't differentiate between the bar and the urinal? Enquiring minds would like to know. Also, playmobil or it didn't happen.
Re: what happens to the drunk
Who can't differentiate between the bar and the urinal?
You're asking? Really? We all have seen some examples there. Then again, we have to be understanding of less experienced punters (That's just the way we are, aren't we?). [1]Slip ups can always happen .
[1] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3m7xk9
Re: what happens to the drunk
They will learn in a spectacularly painful fashion.
Re: what happens to the drunk
One of my mates lived in a terraced house right next to a pub, in Manchester back in the late 70s. Up until then he'd enjoyed the convenience of highly-adjacent beer and crisps, but his fiancee had just moved in with him and they were looking to cut back on expenses with the intent of starting a family, so the drinking had to be paused. Once he was no longer a regular in the pub and didn't meet any of the new intake of students into the area, some of them got into the habit of staggering out of the pub at closing time and relieving themselves in his porch. He caught one or two and gave them a bollocking, but that soon became tedious. He thought about it and came up with a simple answer: two sheets of chicken wire fixed to the porch and the lower third of the door, wired up to a car battery inside. Problem solved.
Re: what happens to the drunk
[1]Don't Pee On The Electric Fence
[1] https://youtu.be/ow3g7l2lDrI
Re: what happens to the drunk
What I really had on the back of my mind was [1]this Ren & Stimpy episode ...
[1] https://youtu.be/pSYEtrBjt1U
Only commenting here because
Our local Tesco is out of Rattler.
C&C only one missing, yes but my cider!
Great idea
Our village caffi (in Wales) re-opened yesterday - outside service only (as per Welsh Government rules). Entry to building to pay and to use the loos (via the back door).
Would you believe the number of visitors (on holiday from England) who couldn't understand why they couldn't sit inside (it was pissing down). Explained slowly in words of one syllable, but no, they couldn't grasp the concept that Wales is not in England, and has a different government and rules.
I like the idea of the electric fence and cattle prods. Or could we get a few 2nd hand Tasers on eBay?
Re: Great idea
I went to Twycross Zoo on Saturday. Full of people with Leicester accents (bear in mind that Leicester is supposed to still be a locked down Red zone) pushing and jostling and completely ignoring the social distancing rules. And then to get out you had to go through the inbound kiosk lines!
Perhaps I need to get a Victorian hooped skirt and add electric fence wire to the hoops!
Re: Great idea
they couldn't grasp the concept that Wales is not in England, and has a different government and rules.
Just for context, that's been a problem for over 900 years.
Re: Great idea
Umm, for some of that time Wales was part of England.
The fount of all wisdom, Wikipedia, claims that the Laws in Wales Acts were passed in 1535-45, integrating Wales into England. Hence MPs from there to the English Parliament in London. Any legal distinction between a Welsh person and an English one was also abolished at this time.
Welsh nationalism and political activity is largely a post-War phenomenon. Arguably the separation back into two countries was as late as 1998, when the Act setting up the Welsh Assembly was passed.
Those attempting to discuss this topic with Welsh people will find that they often have clear strongly-held views on the subject. Any mistakes I've made above may be assumed to be purely down to my own ignorance!
So before c.1550 Wales did have its own government and rules, but this situation did not come back until 1999. You would have hoped twenty years would be long enough for people to notice, but apparently not.
Re: Great idea
"words of one syllable"
Does the Welsh language have words of one syllable?
Puntastic
Well that's just kilowatt-ever fun we might have had in the comments!