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Barrel of Bricks, Pissing on the Third Rail, Eel Skin Wallet

Season 1, Episode 3, Aired Oct 10, 2003

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Can urinating on the electrified third rail of a train track cause you to be electrocuted? Can a wallet made from the skin of an electric eel erase the magnetic information from your credit cards? Can a construction worker be killed by a barrel of bricks?moreless

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Adam Savage

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Jamie Hyneman

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Heather Joseph-Witham

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Robert Lee (XXVI)

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Nikos Andronikos

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By xblvr, May 29, 2007

So this eel skin wallet myth was one that I had not heard of before. It sounds totally crazythat a wallet made out of skin of an electric eel is somehow demagnetizing credit cards. If people would have taken two seconds to find out more they would have discovered that eel skin wallets aren't even eel, but of course one little story without research gets out and people go crazy. I liked when the mythbusters were playing with all the slime, so gross, but funny. The peeing on the third rail was even funnier with the little fig leaf placed over a certain area of Buster.moreless
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- Adam: Total crapola. This is a complete and total disaster.
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- Adam: That electric eel is looking me right in the eye, and it looks hungry.
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- Adam: (To Jamie) Number four is totally screwed. Number four is bad.
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- Adam: You know, I wouldn't look at this and think 'wallet'. No.
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- Narrator: Somewhere, somehow, a fisherman decided this makes great leather.
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- Narrator: This could be the best day of O'Mally's life...or the worst.
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- Jamie: How does the pee aim look? Adam: The pee aim looks pretty good.
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- Adam: Well, here on MythBusters, we'll do just about anything for science.
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- Adam: He's looking pretty healthy. I always wanted my own full-size, visible human.
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- Jamie: That was fun. I mean, it went up, it went down, it went up, it went down. The dummy was getting beaten every which way through the whole process. That was hysterical.
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- Adam: Am I about to feel really, really stupid? Jamie: Probably.
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- Jamie: Adam, it's a good idea to figure all of this out before we have 500 pounds of bricks on the line.
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- Adam: (To Buster) Take a seat there buddy. Your life is about to get really hard!
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- Adam: It just goes to show you that you should not kneel down in front of the third rail, grab it with both hands, and piss on it from three feet away.
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- This episode was released on Mythbusters: Collection 1.
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