One evening when our friend Jesse was visiting recently, we went out on the patio to play with our dog Diablo in front of the house, just to the right, behind the fence, in this photo...
Suddenly Jesse, who wasn't wearing any socks, started hopping around like he'd been electrocuted. I thought maybe he'd been stung by a bullet or fire ant (which, despite assurances from Xcaret guides, I think might live in the area).
Turns out the most obvious answer was the right one: Jesse was hopping around like he'd been electrocuted... because he had been electrocuted!
When we turned on the porch light an explanation presented itself:
Seems that when the builders wired up the light outside our house, they ran a cable along the ground and "buried" it, possibly by pressing it into some wet concrete.
In any case, years of Mexican weather (& hurricanes) had worn away the thin layer of concrete & abraded the cable. We covered the bare wire with some epoxy before our puppy Diablo or one of the neighborhood dogs got zapped by it.
Mexican building codes! Gotta love 'em...
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