Getting Shocked

[Nefarious]

Today I got it good around 9AM.

Was cleaning up a food processor, Wiping it down with a wrung out bleach towel. And BAM!

Needless to say it didnt feel good, and stunned me for a few seconds, and for about 15 Minutes afterwards I was most awake I've ever been at 9AM.

I am left thinking, what a Bad Idea. I've done the same thing everyday for the last Month or so. I guess it finally caught up with me.

Anybody else got any Shock Stories?

[Modas]

When I was in high school, I used to work at a fast food joint (name withheld).  I ususally worked the closing shift.

At the end of the night, after we closed up we would flood the floor with about 2 inches of hot soapy water.

In the center of the room, there was  a refrigerated table that held all the condiments and where the burgers were made.  This unit was 240 volt AND it had a short somewhere in the cord.

Well this night, while standing in 2 inches of hot, soapy water, I went to unplug it and ......

POW!!!!!!

I saw nothing but white light (kinda like a really bad headrush when you stand up to quick).  When the light faded away, I found myself laying on the floor about 15 feet away from the table with the manager standing over me with a worried look.  My right side was numb.  Luckily I wasn't holding on to anything with my left hand, so the voltage/current went thru my arm down to my leg into the water.

It was quite a trip.  But the lesson was learned, don't stand in water and unplug stuff

[storch]

Originally posted by Nefarious
Today I got it good around 9AM.

Was cleaning up a food processor, Wiping it down with a wrung out bleach towel. And BAM!

Needless to say it didnt feel good, and stunned me for a few seconds, and for about 15 Minutes afterwards I was most awake I've ever been at 9AM.

I am left thinking, what a Bad Idea. I've done the same thing everyday for the last Month or so. I guess it finally caught up with me.

Anybody else got any Shock Stories?

I get shocked every day when I read some of the posts on this BB.  Amazing how some of the posters manage to breathe and walk at the same time.  And the horror is that right now their genes might be proliferating on the planet.  God save us from the dimwits.

[Red Tail 444]

I got shocked when I squeezed sunblock into the palm of my hand the other day...there was a blue spark and noticible sound...

I've never had so much SE buildup in my life, and that watermelon hurt like a sonofa***** too

[Red Tail 444]

Originally posted by storch
I get shocked every day when I read some of the posts on this BB.  Amazing how some of the posters manage to breathe and walk at the same time.  And the horror is that right now their genes might be proliferating on the planet.  God save us from the dimwits.

Thread hijack detected and averted....

[gofaster]

I was taking a terminal clamp off a car battery once and the wrench touched the metal fender.  I let go real quick.  The wrench left a nice burn mark on the paint.

[Steve]

Went cow tipping w/ some friends one moonless night after several beers.  One of my buddies stopped to take a leak in the field and peed on an electrified fence.  To this day, it's the funniest damned thing I've ever seen.  Sure it's low amperage... but the blue arc of light, the pathetic yelp of pain from my friend and then the site of him laying on his back, peeing all over himself will stay with me forever.

[JB73]

Originally posted by Steve
Went cow tipping w/ some friends one moonless night after several beers.  One of my buddies stopped to take a leak in the field and peed on an electrified fence.  To this day, it's the funniest damned thing I've ever seen.  Sure it's low amperage... but the blue arc of light, the pathetic yelp of pain from my friend and then the site of him laying on his back, peeing all over himself will stay with me forever.

but the myth busters on TV did this with no shock unless his "unit" was like 2 inches from the wire.

otherwise with a heart moniter hooked up to him zero current traveled up through the stream of urine from normal distances.


i swear i saw it on tv so it must be real.




im still not going to try it myself, and this has to be one of the extreme few times the word urine has been used on this BBS LOL

[flakbait]

Got zapped by a hotwire on a farm once. Me and a buddy were going between fields looking for his BB gun and found the gate into the last field locked. So we unhooked the hotwire (hook & loop deal) and ducked under the fence. Only problem was I couldn't get the hotwire hook to grab the wire loop on the fence post. The hotwire hook had a plastic handle on it, but the loop was bare metal. Sooooo I grabbed the loop and, not thinking, hooked it up.

POP!

Took me about ten seconds to get my bearings. I went from crouching to flat on my butt a foot or so away in no time. It didn't exactly hurt, it just felt really strange.


Doing electrical work around the house can also get you zapped. I was swapping out a bad outlet when I  grabbed the top mounting plate screw to pull the whole thing out. I'd done it before without turning off the power and thought nothing of it. POW! Unlike the incident with the hotwire, THAT HURT! Felt like somebody smashed my left index finger with a bat. Turns out there was a short in the outlet that had made the entire metal mounting plate "live." Which is why the outlet was acting up so much.



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[acepilot2]

Originally posted by Steve
Went cow tipping w/ some friends one moonless night after several beers.  One of my buddies stopped to take a leak in the field and peed on an electrified fence.  To this day, it's the funniest damned thing I've ever seen.  Sure it's low amperage... but the blue arc of light, the pathetic yelp of pain from my friend and then the site of him laying on his back, peeing all over himself will stay with me forever.

ROFL:rofl  "blue arc of light"

[B17Skull12]

once i stuck a fork in an electrical socket.

[Flyboy]

Originally posted by Steve
Went cow tipping w/ some friends one moonless night after several beers.  One of my buddies stopped to take a leak in the field and peed on an electrified fence.  To this day, it's the funniest damned thing I've ever seen.  Sure it's low amperage... but the blue arc of light, the pathetic yelp of pain from my friend and then the site of him laying on his back, peeing all over himself will stay with me forever.

ROFLMAO
this is the funniest thing ive saw on this BBS


i have several shock stories but after reading this one i dont think it worth posting them.

[Steve]

73, I'd say he was a good 2' away.  I remember that the field was muddy/soggy as we had slogged our way in.  Maybe having wet feet/standing in mud/ water helped... dunno.  what I do know is that the arc of light was bright enough to illuminate his front and face( from what I could see of it, I was close to him but off to one side and a little behind)  and as I stepped over, then bent down to get a good look, he was still holding his tool(sort of) and was peeing on himself.  In fact, had I kneeled down to help him he might have peed on me.  My other friends that were there swear that there was a "Zap" sound much like a bug zapper.  I don't remember hearing that but my mind was so stunned by the hilarity of the moment that I  might not have noticed it.*


*If you've ever seen your friend laying on his back in the mud w/ a stunned/stupified look on his face as he pees on himself, you'd be able to relate.

[Sandman]

When I was a kid, we used to grab hold of the electric fence and then touch the dogs.

[capt. apathy]

I get a good shock or 2 on most rainy days.  the current will always find a wet-spot in your gloves when changing carbon rods at about 400 amps.

the worst I ever saw anyone get shocked was when I was a kid.  this neighbor of mine had an old scooter, a Cushman I think.  anyway the motor had a single spark plug on top, and the old worn out seat (with no upolstry left) was right above the motor.  he was showing off this scooter that he'd picked up for $20, when he hit a pot-hole on his way by.  the bump compressed the seat and shoved the un-insulated tip of the spark plug up through the bare foam enough to find a ground between his cheeks.

I wish I'd had a cam-corder for that.