Huay Yai Vendor Electrocuted By Canal Fence
Huay Yai:--A 33-year-old coconut vendor was killed after accidentally touching an electrified fence along a canal bordering rice fields. The fence was guarding the rice from buffaloes and cows. The fence owner might be prosecuted.

PATTAYA – April 1, 2013 [PDN]; At 10 p.m. a report of a man being killed by electric shock was received by Pol. Capt. Saijai Khamjulla, investigation police on duty, Huay Yai police station. The rescue officers of Sawangboribultharmmasatharn Pattaya foundation were dispatched to the scene along with police.

The incident occurred in Soi Hua Sai, on the side of Huay Yai canal, Moo 1 Tambon Huay Yai, Amphur Banglamung, Chonburi province.

The Huay Yai canal is a dry canal located between 20 rais of rice fields. Arriving officers walked along the canal for about 100 meters until they found the corpse of Mr. Prayuth Eam-sawat, age 33, a resident of Tambon Huay Yai.
Full story:http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2013/04/02/huay-yai-vendor-electrocuted-by-canal-fence/

--PATTAYA DAILY NEWS 2013-04-02

220v? must have wired it direct to the mains...

A proper fence energizer is about 5,000v, but current is limited, and an initial shock of less than 1 joules of stored energy, and should cost less than 5,000B, it is now going to cost the farmer a lot more.

220V electric fences to kill the rats are common around rice paddies,

It's a different world here, and you best not forget it.

220v? must have wired it direct to the mains...

A proper fence energizer is about 5,000v, but current is limited, and an initial shock of less than 1 joules of stored energy, and should cost less than 5,000B, it is now going to cost the farmer a lot more.

Unless the farmer happens to be a big landowner with influence in that case he'll probably ask for damages. Live is sometimes very cheap in the LOS

You couldn't make it up better. Thailand reality beats any fiction.

220 volts for fencing? Why not just use land mines!!

The cheaper the solution the better! And, if the farmer was able to use someone elses 220V, so much the better,