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Shockingly Good Sound

2006 Reader Submission
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Heres an honerable mention for you: One day, a new client called a company which rents out sound equipment needing a microphone. Not thinking anything of it, they loan out the equipment. A couple hours later, they get a call from the client asking if they were trying to kill her husband. The client stated that when her husband had pluged the mircophone into the wall, it had shocked him.

Thinkning the the in-house PA system had a bad ground, the companies owner sent a technician out with a new mic and a new cable. Upon arriving at the scene, the tech was astonished to find that, apparently thinking that a normal wall outlet was what you plugged a microphone into, the client had cut off the XLR tip and replaced with a badly wired on edison plug. While the tech stood they, in compleat shock, the client innocently saod, "You plug it into the wall and sound come out, right?"

Submitted on 10/03/2006

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: Front Of House Mag., Sep, '06

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James said:
Maybe Toss: Other
This is definitely funny and probably true (here's a link: http://www.fohonline.com/issue/?di=0609&fi=nightmare.txt). Everything checks out. Unfortunately, this submission doesn't read as well as the original and is missing detail. As such I will toss, but this IS a funny story!

Fitzroy said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
I can't go negative on this incident because it seems to be valid and reading the submission did make me laugh out loud. I believe, if she were so inclined, Darwin could make a real gem of this one.

Jorge said:
Maybe Toss: Other
Agree

Graham said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
With some reworking, this one has the makings of a classic. It's just the sort of thing people do!

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