Uh... steven, I'm not certain I understood you. Electricity, like water, seeks the path of least resistance to ground. If you have two lines and one is a positive wire and the other is the neutral... you can touch either one of them all day long and not feel a thing unless you are suddenly the path to ground. The lizard traveling on one wire will not be a path to ground at all because he isn't standing on the other wire at the same time.
If you take two wires of a line that is plugged into an outlet you will have the potential of about 115 volts (and the associated current). Just potential. You can actually touch either of the wires individually. But you can't touch them simultaneously. If you touch them together you have sudden path to ground which will register at your breaker box as an increase and pop.
Then there's the other aspect to electricity that makes it dangerous... and a little foggy here as well on the cause. If you are hanging from a wire and not touching anything else in theory you would be safe. However, if electricity potential is there and seeking ground it can jump from your body to the other line or to the earth. This is what happens when folks lose their feet or a hand where the electricity attempts to find ground. Always there is much burning.
Here's the foggy part. Does a power spike in the line become a requirement for this to happen? Why would it happen to Joe, but not Sam when hanging from a single line? Does distance play a factor? Humidity? An electrical storm? Power surge? Luck?
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