This guy shouldn't play with electricity

[FLOOB]

This guy likes to play with electricity too.

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/032010/1268303111_pluging_in.gif

[SIM]

Youd be surprised by the number of people, like that one, that I run into on a daily basis. They call in with some sort of trouble order and are intent on it being the fault of the power company. Each would have you think they are experts, but few can change the battery in their flashlight.

 Then there are those who dig in a swimming pool, cut the secondaries feeding their home, and expect us to magically reroute the lines so they have power an hour later......

 Electricity is good for the gene-pool........

[Kanth]

I don't even know if it's staged but it's good stuff.     no idea how he isn't at least missing an eye.

[DREDIOCK]

I think its a combination of staged and real stuff. I think even in out own specialized professions most of us have had enough of brainfart moments and/or days that just didnt go right over the years to make a pretty decent outtakes video. Problem is. for many of us it would take years if not multiple decades to amass a numerically comparable collection.

I digress. Some of those reactions are kind hard to fake for them all to be staged

[SPKmes]

it's all 12Vdc and less...no biggy.... it burns more than it shocks....most of the shock is the bodies reaction when it happens....
Still...to do it on purpose hahahaha.... the things people do for 15mins of fame

[PJ_Godzilla]

Slapstick lives... As a guy who has arced stuff at home occasionally, I enjoyed it. Meanwhile, I brought one of the Team Value Management supers in from Electrical to watch it. This guy invented the color-display beer tap and is a true geek, like yo. We laffed and laffed at le moron.

Hey, if you don't make comical mistakes, how can you learn or have crippling industrial accidents?

And it probably was staged, but it could be REAL still. After all, I've touched a bug zapper just out of curiosity. It hurts.

[100Coogn]

Just sayin'
Still funny though.

Coogan

[Meatwad]

Just sayin'
Still funny though.

Coogan

And people will still swear that it is 100% real 

[100Coogn]

And people will still swear that it is 100% real 

Oh, I prob broke a lot of hearts posting that.   

Coogan

[10thmd]

When he was crying.   Man that was well worth 5 minutes of my life.

[Hajo]

Funny stuff!  Thanks for posting. 

[Lizard]

I got hit with 10k volts once, mA's but still. The next day one half of my body felt like it got run over by a truck. 

Then there was my first job in a restaurant when I was a kid, scraping grease off the wall with a steak knife next to a 220 receptacle.  Arc welded that poor knife and scared holy hell out of me...So the owner told me to leave the walls alone and go mop up some grease. I mixed 3 or 4 things in the bucket and whalla, chlorine gas!

[Ack-Ack]

I mixed 3 or 4 things in the bucket and whalla, chlorine gas!

 

[PJ_Godzilla]

And people will still swear that it is 100% real 

It's a real spinning kick and fall... Just... Not a real fight. Those guys are actually pretty athletic. But, of course, they'd get seriously hurt if the fight were real.

There was a revival of roller derby about 20 years ago -on in lines. Can you imagine, given those speeds, how serious would be some of the injuries if the fighting weren't staged?