Thread: Electric Fence in Thailand - Legal?

Originally Posted by chitown

Maybe I should get one of these too!

Even better this works while away or asleep

You have to reload the thing every morning, too much work! Who will take away the dead bodies?

Originally Posted by arfursixpence

I think it is a great idea,
Take a look here,

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Or you could look here WASP security Security With a Sting

Get a local handyman to install a couple of outdoor heated showers.

Guaranteed to have the whole outside area electrified and ready to cook.

Originally Posted by Kwang

Originally Posted by chitown

I started a light hearted thread about a suggestion by my domestic help and the "Thais do no wrong club" rolls out

Here's a great thread about an electric fence.

R.I.P Blackgang

Originally Posted by blackgang

Electric Fence

Thought y'all should read this in case you're thinking of installing an
electric fence! We have the standard 6ft. fence in the backyard, and a few
months ago, I heard about burglaries increasing dramatically in the entire city.

To make sure this never happened to me, I got an electric fence and ran a
single wire along the top of the fence. Actually, I got the biggest cattle
charger Tractor Supply had, made for 26 miles of fence. I then used an 8 ft.
long ground round, drove 7.5 feet into the ground. The ground rod is the
key, with the more you have in the ground, the better the fence works.

One day I'm mowing the back yard with my cheapo Wal-Mart 6hp big wheel push mower. The hot wire is broken and laying out in the yard. I knew for a fact that I unplugged the charger. I pushed the mower around the wire and reached down to grab it, to throw it out of the way. It seems as though I hadn't remembered to unplug it after all.

Now I'm standing there, I've got the running lawnmower in my right hand
And the 1.7 gigavolt fence wire in the other hand. Keep in mind the charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down cow on fire on the cover.

Time stood still. The first thing I notice is my balls trying to climb up
the front side of my body. My ears curled downwards and I could feel the
lawnmower ignition firing in the backside of my brain.

Every time that Briggs & Stratton rolled over, I could feel the spark in my
head. I was literally at one with the engine. It seems as though the fence
charger and the POS lawnmower were fighting over who would control my
electrical impulses.

Science says you cannot poop and pee at the same time. I beg to differ.

Not only did I do all at once, but my bowels emptied 3 different times in
less than half of a second. It was a Matrix kind of bowel movement, where
time is creeping along and you're all leaned back . It seemed like there
were minutes in between but in reality it was so close together it was like
exhaust pulses from a big block Chevy turning 8 grand.

At this point I'm about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto the
fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I can't let go.
I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences... but Dad always
had those POS chargers made by International or whoever that were like 9
volts and just kinda tickled. This I could not let go of.

The 8 foot long ground rod is now accepting signals from me through the
perm-a-damp Ark-La-Tex river bottom soil. At this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to just man up and take it, until the lawnmower runs out of gas.

'Damn!,' I think, as I remember I just filled the tank! Now the
lawnmower is starting to run rough. It has settled into a loping run pattern as if it had some kind of big lawnmower race cam in it.

Covered in poop & pee, and with my balls on my chest I think 'Oh God
Please die...pleeeeze die'. But nooooo, it settles into the rough lumpy cam idle nicely and remains there, like a big bore roller cam EFI motor waiting for the go command from its owner's right foot.

So here I am in the middle of July, 104 degrees, 80% humidity, standing in my own backyard, begging God to kill me. God did not take me that day... he left me there covered in my own fluids to writhe in the misery my own stupidity had created.

I honestly don't know how I got loose from the wire...
I woke up laying on the ground hours later. The lawnmower was beside me, out of gas. It was later on in the day and I was sunburned. There were two large dead grass spots where I had been standing, and then another long skinny dead spot were the wire had laid while I was on the ground still holding on to it. I assume I finally had a seizure and in the resulting thrashing had somehow let go of the wire. Upon waking from my electrically induced sleep I realized a few things.

1- Three of my teeth seem to have melted.

2- I now have cramps in the bottoms of my feet and my right butt cheek (not the left, just the right).

3- Poop & pee when mixed together, do not smell as bad as you might think.

4- My left eye will not open.

5- My right eye will not close.

6- The lawnmower runs like a spotted ape now. Seriously! I think our little session cleared out some carbon fouling or something, because it was better than new after that.

7- My balls are still smaller than average yet they are almost a foot long.

8- I can turn on the TV in the game room by farting while thinking of the number 4 (still don't understand this)

That day changed my life. I now have a newfound respect for things. I
appreciate the little things more, and now I always triple check to make sure the fence is unplugged before I mow.

The good news, is that if a burglar does try to come over the fence, I can clearly visualize what my security system will do to him, and THAT gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, which also reminds me to triple check
before I mow.

The wealth of smiley icons won't do this justice. This is the funniest thing I have ever read.

^ The best is the broken beer bottles fixed to the top of the concrete walls.
There has to me nothing better to keep kamoys out. What idiot would want to wriggle over large glass shards to steal a rice cooker.

They had them at a condo I used to stay at. I was friends with the owner and he told one day over coffee that Thais are always either thinking about stealing, stealing or selling what they just stole. I said to him "You are a Thai" and he said "I am rich already, I don't need to steal.....anymore". Then he giggled like a school girl.

Originally Posted by larvidchr

Taking a few simple home security precautions is a good thing especially if you have neighbours who don't

That's a good point- your house just needs to be more difficult to breach than those nearby, making it a more difficult (and less attractive) target- this might, of course, lead to a very interesting security 'arms race'.

We have an old git who sleeps a lot, so no worries here!

Originally Posted by FailSafe

Originally Posted by larvidchr

Taking a few simple home security precautions is a good thing especially if you have neighbours who don't

That's a good point- your house just needs to be more difficult to breach than those nearby, making it a more difficult (and less attractive) target- this might, of course, lead to a very interesting security 'arms race'.

there is usually the odd couple of estate fall-guy's who would refuse to partake in such a race,

the few believers of the good in all mankind complete with greying ponytails and orthopaedic sandals,

and the other extreme in the Neanderthal brainless hairless hard-guys complete with wife-beaters and tat's who think they are invincible and smart to boot!.

No worries

Thai electricians and the rainy season...

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Get a local handyman to install a couple of outdoor heated showers.

Guaranteed to have the whole outside area electrified and ready to cook.

Nothing wrong with the old long term memory eh

Originally Posted by chitown

There has to me nothing better to keep kamoys out. What idiot would want to wriggle over large glass shards to steal a rice cooker

a folded blanket or one of those roll up mats thrown over the wall, hey presto, a broken glass wall bridge, works aswell

not used that trick in a robbery mind you

Used it for some other reason?

Originally Posted by chitown

^ The best is the broken beer bottles fixed to the top of the concrete walls.
There has to me nothing better to keep kamoys out. What idiot would want to wriggle over large glass shards to steal a rice cooker.

Opens front gate and walks in.

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Get a local handyman to install a couple of outdoor heated showers.

Guaranteed to have the whole outside area electrified and ready to cook.

Ha ha! NAIL! HEAD! HIT!

Perfect!

Originally Posted by boatboy

Originally Posted by chitown

^ The best is the broken beer bottles fixed to the top of the concrete walls.
There has to me nothing better to keep kamoys out. What idiot would want to wriggle over large glass shards to steal a rice cooker.

Opens front gate and walks in.

The fuckers would probably steal the glass shards and glue them back together like a jigsaw puzzle to get the 9 Baht for a box of Chang empties!

73-year-old woman gets 3 years, 4 months for electrocuting thief
March 27, 2012

A 73-year-old woman was Tuesday sentenced to three years and four months in jail for putting up a live wire fencing around her house to protect her kratom, causing a thief to be killed early last year.

The court ruled that Thongdee Jaemsri was guilty in premeditated murder and having 41 kilograms of kratom (Mitragyna speciosa. Korth) in possession with intent to sell.

The court ruled that Thongdee used too excessive measure to protect her house by putting up 220 volt live wire fencing around her house in Bangkok's Bang Kapi district. The fence killed Maropi Lungmae in February 2010.

The court said the electricity would take three to six minutes to kill a man and the power breaker, which the electric fence was wired to, should warn the woman to cut the power supply but she did nothing until the man was electrocuted.

The court believed that the man sneaked into the house to steal the kratom the woman grew inside her house compound and his leg accidentally touched the wire when he was leaving.

The court initially sentenced Thongdee to three years for causing death to the man and two more years for having kratom in possession. The court commuted the sentence by one third because she confessed, leaving the jail term of 3 years and four months.

nationmultimedia.com

Three years plus for a 73-yo?

Bit excessive.

How about a stretch of community service.

Originally Posted by Mid

The court initially sentenced Thongdee to three years for causing death to the man and two more years for having kratom in possession

Life sure is cheap. My Missus reckons loads of people grow Kratom up in Isaan, maybe it's the intent to sell that carries the big sentence

Sorry guys, I won't be posting here tonight.

I have to go disconnect my fence.

Originally Posted by chitown

Sorry guys, I won't be posting here tonight.

I have to go disconnect my fence.

Shouldn't you be digging holes, for the bodies, first?