Playing with my dog's head
My dog learned long ago that a doorbell means someone is at the front door, which provokes him to bark. I learned that my doorbell's wiring was old, and these days improperly-grounded, so by shaking two wires hanging from the ceiling in the basement, I could get the doorbell to ring, and thus get my dog to bark at ghosts.

I feel like a character in the movie "Brasil", hiding down in the basement, grinning and waving wires around, just to toy with my dog upstairs.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 19:53, Reply)