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filthiestfis | 15:35 Mon 17th Mar 2008 | How it Works
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Why dont mice electrocute themselves when walking on the live train rails?
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They are not earthed so electricity doesn't flow through their bodies, in the same way birds can perch on high voltage power lines safely.

If a mouse walked on the live rail and any part of it's body touched the ground (Tail etc), then power would flow to earth and electrocute it.
15:57 Mon 17th Mar 2008
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Some of them probably do, and fly off into the undergrowth.
16:43 Mon 17th Mar 2008
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lol @ panic!

Visions of flying mice come to mind!
17:40 Mon 17th Mar 2008
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`Mighty Mouse` springs to my mind. For the younger AB`s he was a cartoon character back in the mist`s of time
00:05 Thu 20th Mar 2008

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