Jumper Cables

I was having a beer with my friend SG last night. While I was there, MW called up and said that he needed us to jump him. We drove across town and I got the cables out of my trunk as he opened the hoods. We hooked them up, nothing happened. He pulled a battery out of his trunk (?!?!?!?!) and hooked that to the cables in various configurations, nothing happened. At this point I was becoming frightened. For those of you who know this guy, you would understand that he tends to be one of those to do stuff without reading the instructions. Also, he tends to never get hurt, or arrested, or caught (except for the pizza incident). In any case, he eventually reattached the cables to run between my car and his. I was hiding behind a telephone pole at this point. The car started. I was just glad that we were across the street from the emergency department. And people wonder why I'm not afraid of being hurt while living in Hough. Sheesh!