--- On Sun, 9/13/09, W. Kiernan <wkiernan at gmail.com> wrote:
As water lines often
> run parallel with roads, it may be, as you suggest, that I
> subconsciously assessed the locale, consulted memory of
> having locating or staking water lines in the past for how
> far from the pavement or fence line or tree line to expect a
> buried water line to be, and then as I walked across that
> area the ideomotor response made me twist the wires in a way
> similar to how one unconsciously pushes the "planchette"
> when using a Ouija board.
This is the weakest explanation ever, which nobody would ever consider for any "nondisreputable" phenomenon.