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"You've seen birds sitting on uninsulated high-tension wire? They don't wear PPE [person protective equipment]. How can they roost on a piece of metal carrying a hundred thousand volts? Why don't we have roast pigeons falling from the skies?"
"They don't touch the other wire."
"Exactly. As long as they don't touch a return or a tower, they're fine. They have the same charge was the wire, but there's no current- no amps- going through them. You have to be like that bird on the wire."
Which, to Sachs, made her sound pretty damn fragile.
[muse] Detective Sergeant Amelia Sachs
[canon] The Lincoln Rhyme series
[canon point] midway through The Burning Wire (just after introducing Lincoln to Susan)
"They don't touch the other wire."
"Exactly. As long as they don't touch a return or a tower, they're fine. They have the same charge was the wire, but there's no current- no amps- going through them. You have to be like that bird on the wire."
Which, to Sachs, made her sound pretty damn fragile.
[muse] Detective Sergeant Amelia Sachs
[canon] The Lincoln Rhyme series
[canon point] midway through The Burning Wire (just after introducing Lincoln to Susan)