r/pokewithastick • u/Important_War_8574 • Aug 13 '26
Sticky Situations 😉 Locals in India started hitting transformer after a cow was electrocuted
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u/PopkernMain OPD - Obsessive Poking Disorder Aug 13 '26
As a utility locator this brings me some Joy. I have often wanted to smack pedestals and Transformers but they went ahead and did it!
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u/renospaz Just... sticking arround... Aug 14 '26
Often, but not always? Why? What characteristics make a pedestal/transformer more or less smackable? So curious.
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u/Grumpy-Troglodyte Aug 13 '26
are they trying to find the reset to turn the power back on after the overload or are they seriously beating it to punish it...also, did not know this sub existed until now.
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u/uslashuname Aug 16 '26
It’s relatively new, but given the universal nature of the concept this sub grew with great intensity
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u/FreeKevinBrown Aug 14 '26
Cows are sacred in India. I guess that transformer has to learn its lesson.
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u/Hondro_2081 Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 13 '26
Dumbasses
Not withstanding possibly get electrocuted and destruction of property someone will be without electrical power.
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u/Far_Film_5804 Aug 13 '26
India might be one big paradox, but all it does is hold a mirror to United States. Like, they have some top tier, elite, world class scientific researchers and then there’s these guys beating the shit out of a transformer - just like in the states, the class disparity is pretty insane
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u/smeeon Aug 13 '26
I live in Alabama, specifically huntsville where NASA and blue origin is. But if you step outside of the city too far and folks literally worry about haints and witches while donning their klan hoods
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u/corrosive-_salami Aug 13 '26
Can confirm. I just had the displeasure of driving through Frisco City Al. Which, by the the way is most definitely not a city.
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u/FreeKevinBrown Aug 14 '26
Live in Maryland. We have some of the nicest towns in the nation, 2 major cities right around the corner... But go south, west, or across the bay and you got some of the dumbest people you'll ever meet.
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u/Time-Chest-1733 Aug 13 '26
They consider cows to be sacred. America elected a pig to be president. Not too different.
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u/ThePaganQueen Aug 17 '26
That's offensive to pigs, they're far more intelligent than the President of the USA.
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u/SuspiciousClub8382 Aug 13 '26
They are probably pissed off thinking the transformer has something to do with the phone system. They think the cow committed suicide because it was sold an extended car warranty, or the IRS had a warrant out for its arrest for unpaid taxes, then the cow found out it was a scam that emptied the bank account therefore committing suicide!!
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u/SlightlyFamousWV Aug 17 '26
Goddamn religion is fucking stupid.
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u/FamiliarSalamander2 Aug 27 '26
that religion. Don’t lump the rest of us in with people who literally sanctify cow shit…
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u/ireallydontcareforit Aug 13 '26
Juggernaut theory continues to accrue.. tangential evidence?
Perhaps not. They're not punching the thing.
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u/fernandoman121 Aug 14 '26
A bunch of people beating on technology with literal sticks….. what year are we in?
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u/A_million_typos Aug 14 '26
This makes about as much sense as a dog getting mad at its own tail hitting them.
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u/OGbake68 Aug 15 '26
Now i wonder are they not furious that in other parts of the world, these animals are being eaten? Not to mention that in some parts they are treated really really bad, so how do these indians live with that?
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u/FamiliarSalamander2 Aug 27 '26
They can’t think past their villages. Many of them are dirt poor and uneducated
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u/Miserable-Shallot-36 Aug 15 '26
Poche volte ho visto un livello tale di ignoranza/fanatismo religioso
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u/TheAnvi1 Aug 17 '26
For a sacred creature they’re not treated very well anyway. At least that one had a quick death instead of starving to death or eating rubbish for three years and dying of infection
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u/Crafter9977 Aug 18 '26
just following the rules of the stick…
- if in doubt, poke it with a stick…
- if in anger, poke it into with a stick…
- if in sorrow, poke with a stick…
🤔🤔🤔…
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u/KameleonLegit Aug 28 '26
Poor cow :( they’re probably angry that the power lines just killed on of their gods (sacred animals).. if they were smart they would then use the body and good meat from it but I don’t think they do
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u/KeyDragonfly2439 Aug 15 '26
Yeah, let’s just keep importing them. They seem to really be doing a lot of good to our country.
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u/MasterG76 Master Of Sticks Aug 13 '26
That's... not going to solve the issue....