Bahahaha! Made my day! Beth Benoit Plymouth State University New Hampshire
Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Dec 2014, at 11:20 am, Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. > <jeff.ric...@scottsdalecc.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >> On Dec 21, 2014, Christopher D Green <chri...@yorku.ca> wrote: >> >> I apologize. I didn’t realize you had a personal anecdote on your side. > > I've got an idea that I'm sure will work based on the effectiveness of > electric fences for cattle and other live stock from wandering off (I grew up > in what was then a rural part of Illinois). My recommendation would be to > attach one end of the wire to a power source and the other end to the floor > of the subway car--making sure, of course, that the wires run across the > edges of the seats. Then, when passengers knees "wander" beyond the seat edge > and their feet are on the floor, sans shoes and socks (the city will need to > pass a law requiring them to remove their shoes and socks), they get a shock. > > And just to bring a little psychology into this, the shocks should start at > 15 V and be increased by that amount for each transgression. In fact, we can > use some other features from those experiments. For example, when "electric > seat fences" are first introduced on subway cars, the MTA might want to hire > actors to "manspread" repeatedly on purpose until they're screaming in agony. > I even would recommend that this be taken one step further: have some actors > make so many mistakes that eventually they appear to have been killed (make > sure to add a little smoke and the smell of burned flesh: little things like > that would be extremely important, I would argue). > > I'll bet we'll get most of those rudely splaying men to sit like proper young > ladies in short order, especially once pictures of the smoking "corpses" hit > the front page of the NY Post. > > Best, > Jeff > > P.S. I'm so glad that I live in Arizona, where rude people can strap on a > Glock, and no one would even consider asking them to sit properly. > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Scottsdale Community College > 9000 E. Chaparral Road > Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 > Office: SB-123 > Phone: (480) 423-6213 > Fax: (480) 423-6298 > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: beth.ben...@gmail.com. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72&n=T&l=tips&o=41248 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-41248-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > > > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=41249 or send a blank email to leave-41249-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
