A few weeks ago I was riding my bike along a small river. There wasn't a path, but it was fairly easy to ride there. After a few kilometres, the river went under a street and the 'path' where I was riding (the grass next to the river) didn't go any further. There was an electric cattle fence between the street and the grass.
I didn't want to go the whole way back along the river, so I was looking for a way to get to the street. I could easily have crawled under it, but the problem was my bike. I figured the easiest way to get it to the other side of the fence, was to push it through it (in between the two wires). However, it got stuck, so I tried to get to the otherside to pull it. I grabbed the upper electric wire, not realising there was electricity on it, and of course I got an electric shock.
I thought it was safer to just go back then, so I tried to pull my bike back. But when I touched the metal frame of my bike, I got another shock. 10 minutes and 3 shocks later, I finally got it out of the fence.
From now on, I'm avoiding electric fences.
