[SgtBob]

I believe it was the 3rd rail myth.

They “busted” it, but the real “meat and ‘taters” would have been to actually “piss on the 3rd rail”.

[drc43]

Yes, but they were disproving stories about motormen peeing on a third rail... about 600 v dc. Power lines run from 30,000 volts on up to 300,000 v. Plenty enough to arc across the breaks in the urine stream.