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People get very conscious of electricity when it goes sideways and starts to act erratic… Eerie blackouts, hissing, and strange shocks from the toilet bowl, terrifying power surges that make light bulbs explode and fry computer circuits that are not even plugged in… The air crackles around your head, and you take a jolt every time you touch yourself. Your lawyer burns all the hair off his body when he picks up the cordless phone to dial 911. Nobody can handle electricity gone amuck. It is too powerful… Ben Franklin was never able to lock a door again after the night lightning came down his kite string and fused that key to his thumb. They called it a great discovery and they called him a great scientist; but he bawled like a baby for the rest of his life every time he smelled rain in the air. Electricity is neutral. It doesn't want to kill you, but it will if you give it the chance. Electricity wants to go "home", and it will find a quick way to get there. Electricity is always "homesick". It is lonely. But it is also lazy. It is like a hillbilly with a shotgun and a jug of whiskey gone mad for revenge on some hopeless bum down the street. A fatal attraction for sure… But, he won't go much out of his way to chase the bugger down if an ambush looks a lot easier. Why prowl around and make a spectacle of yourself when you can lay in wait under some darkened bridge and swill whiskey like a troll full of hate until your victim appears- drunk and careless and right on schedule. So close that you almost feel embarrassed about pulling the trigger.