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Does anyone out there know how the cars work? does it affect anything? We all know that they have a single wire that comes out of an upright pole from the back of the car. That wire touches a network of wires that run across the ceiling of the dodgem "room" and that network is obviously connected to
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The citation says that they were called "Dodgem", but not that they weren't intended to be bumped. And, think about it, to dodge 'em, don't 'ey have to be trying to hit you? So it would end up a game of trying to hit, while not being hit, which is actually how bumper cars are played, any time I've
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an electricity supply. Most of us are of the understanding that for electricity to work you need a circuit - electricity coming in, and going out - but with only one wire, that doesn't fit. Is this an electricity question, more so than a dodgem car question?
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