Phone Repair

Ellisville,  Mississippi, April 12, 2011     

 An  Ellisville school teacher 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 climbed a telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed the subscriber's house.

The phone didn't ring right 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.
Thanks Randy