[macman11393]

Me and my brother were wondering if you peed on a electric fence would it electricut you and how high of energy would it need we were wondering on the amount of energy to keep cows in cause I don't know amps or power but I have grabbed a cow electric fence so that will give me something to compare to and if you do feel the electricity how bad would it hurt

[Stringer]

Yes, you would get shocked and it would hurt like h*ll.

[ohsohappy]

Haha there's a video somewhere online. Watch it. :)

[asking]

I leaned near an electric fence on a hot day when I was sweating and it arced over and burned my chest. I was reaching for an apple hanging over the road. Damned fence! It hurt and left a red mark that lasted a couple of days. I did not touch the fence. I think it would matter how concentrated and salty the pee was. More salty, worse shock? Dilute and watery, maybe you'd get away with it. I think voltage comes into play, too. But I'm just surmising...

See the YouTube video above. There are others, but this one struck me as authentic because the guy looked so scared when beginning the procedure...

By the way "electrocuted" technically means getting killed, not just getting a shock.

[ohsohappy]

I grabbed an electric fence once when I was about 8 or 9. It was around a horse pen. I climbed it, and I grabbed the wire. The nect thing I knew, I was on my back on the ground laying in gravel. I got up an dwas feeling okay, but it was kind of scary.

[hydroguy]

When I was a kid, a long time ago, I bet my cousin that he couldn't pee over a fence that was electric. He did and when it contacted the fence, he was knocked on his back and wet his pants considerably. I think that he would have pounded on me if he had not been hurting so badly for awhile. I still laugh about it, but he doesn't.

[trulytrying]

Not only should you NOT pee on an electric fence,
You shouldn't pee in the Amazon River either!
There is a parasite that swims up the urine stream into the urethra and is very painful. Who would've thought..

The Dreaded Candiru AKA Penis Fish: Myth or a Horrible Fact? - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com

[asking]

Wikipedia says this is extremely rare and they do not swim up the urine and are not even attracted to urine.

They say there is only one documented case of this fish swimming into a human urethra (a man's).

Although lurid anecdotes of attacks of humans abound, there is only one documented case of a candiru entering a human orifice.

Candiru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[trulytrying]

Wikipedia is always open to revision. I found some more info on them... copied and pasted...
The candiru is a member of the catfish family and, according to Enyclopedia Britannica, "has been known to enter the urethras of bathers and swimming animals."
"Once in the passage," the Britannica continues, "it erects the short spines on its gill covers and may thereby cause inflammation, hemorrhage, and even death to the victim."
Audubon magazine explains: Candirus primarily set up house inside larger fish, where they feast on the host's blood. They are attracted to nitrogen, which usually leads them to a gill chamber, but apparently they can't distinguish between one nitrogen-emitting orifice and another: They have been known to follow a stream of urine right to its source.
And another thing I find compelling is that the natives of the region have "herbal" remedies for it.

[asking]

Yes. But that's a far cry from Associated Content, which falls into the "lurid tales" category. :)

Britannica makes mistakes too. According to a survey of Britannica and Wikipedia by Nature magazine (the science journal), they are comparable in terms of errors. Britannica had only a slight edge.

I couldn't find the reference at Audubon's website. There's a brief reference in a book review. But it doesn't say what About.com says it says. I'm not sure About.com is all that reliable either...

Your original post could be interpreted as saying the fish swims up a stream of urine come from out of the water. I wanted to correct that impression.

Here's what looks like a sufficiently skeptical account, similar in tone to that at Wikipedia:
//www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2551/can-the-candir-fish-swim-upstream-into-your-urethra

[trulytrying]

Hmmm...
It's kind of like "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?"
The world may never know! : )

[asking]

Fun to read about though. I had not heard about this. It's fairly horrifying! I can see why there are so many rumors about it. Right up there with botfly larvae.

Thanks for posting it here in the Urine Archives.