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Have you ever had an electric shock?

The Jammy dodger

I remember today that years ago when I was renting out a house. The pipes burst and the whole place was covered in water. Not thinking the landlord told me to switch off a light that was obviously flickering and I did almost instantly as everyone was in a rush and ZAP. I felt my chest tighten (and stomach up ) and thought I was going to die there and then. Truly a frightening experience that I never want to go through again.

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ejmaztec

KKkitty wrote: »

Got a shock from an iron once. It had one of those fabric type flexes which had become worn and after I got the shock sparks came out. Haven't ironed since

The feeble excuse creased me up.:P

CrazyRabbit

I've been tasered 3 times. Does that count?

FYI...when a US security guard tells you to leave, you leave.

ronan45

Have had a few 220 Volt shocks. Its kinda like a sharp sting and your arm clenches. I felt a kinda vibration in the shock if that makes sense. Leaves you with a slight numb pain in the general area of the shock. Not nice but i think a paper cut is worse :pac:

KKkitty

ejmaztec wrote: »

KKkitty wrote: »

Got a shock from an iron once. It had one of those fabric type flexes which had become worn and after I got the shock sparks came out. Haven't ironed since

The feeble excuse creased me up.:P

I'm to dePRESSed to talk about it

Lingua Franca

I'm sure it left you feeling flat. If it happened to me I'd be steaming.

ejmaztec

KKkitty wrote: »

I'm to dePRESSed to talk about it

There seem to be two different kinds of wrinklies now, old people and people without irons.:P

Richard Hillman

never a big one. I used to work in a shop. When the cages arrived for deliveries they were covered in cling film. The 1st person to touch the cage after the film was stripped off got a big static shock. Was funny when it happened to customers :pac:

Johnnio13

Worked with an electrician on the J1.
We were fitting the service to the house and my boss was in the basement wiring up the board, I was working on something or other and the other irish guy in the kitchen was wiring up the cooker. He passed the wire for the cooker down the pipe, it came out at the service box and blew the boss and the ladder he was standing on across the room. It was like something from a movie.

4zn76tysfajdxp

The field next to my primary school had an electric fence around it, which was reachable through the fence in my school. I was dared to touch it once and when I did, the jolt I gave was so harsh I was convinced someone had punched me in the back of the head.

ghogie91

Cooking breakfast extremely hungover one sunday morning

Father had the back of the plug off the george foreman so i put it back on to push the plug in the then switched on the george foreman. After a while i noticed it wasnt heating up so i realised the back had fallen off the the prongs wernt in the socket completely. Stuck the hand to it to push them all in forgetting the plug wasnt turned off

Got that tight feeling in my chest for the split second i was stuck to it, it then threw me back about a foot or two, arm didnt feel the same for a couple of weeks, the auld ticker was going 90 all day long

Bookworm85

Penn wrote: »

Used to live in a one-bed apartment. Burst pipe in the apartment above caused water to leak into mine, so I contacted landlord, people upstairs etc. There was one of those perspex bowls around the pendant bathroom light which was full of water. Took it off, took out the bulb. Started cleaning the socket.

Didn't realise that the lightswitch had actually been on but the bulb went off. While standing on a chair, I ended up sticking my finger into the socket (wrapped in tissue paper to dry to socket) and got a good shock from it. Managed to grab the back of the chair to prevent falling off it. Arm felt weird for a few hours after that, but I was lucky enough.

Did something similar about 10 years ago. The parents had some fellas in to re plaster the spare bedroom. My brother and I were painting it a few days later and tried turning on the light when it started to get dark. Flicked the switch and nothing happened so I went and got a new bulb, unscrewed the old one. I tried putting the fresh one in (it wasn't a screw in one, one of those twist & lock) but wasn't engaging. Gobsheen here decided to stick a finger in to try and push back the two prongs in the socket..... BOOM! fell off the chair and landed on my ass. I think I saw the future in that moment!!! Obviously the bulb had died while the switch was still on! Spent a day and a night in CUH because my heart was going like the clappers and there risk of internal bleeding or something. Good times

ScumLord

When I were a child I tried to change the lightbulb in my room, we had bunk beds at the time so I climb to the top one and had to lean out because the light was in the middle of the ceiling and the beds were at the wall. I got zapped and then dumped on the ground. Needless to say I have a irrational fear of lightbulbs now.

jmayo

ghogie91 wrote: »

Cooking breakfast extremely hungover one sunday morning

Father had the back of the plug off the george foreman so i put it back on to push the plug in the then switched on the george foreman. After a while i noticed it wasnt heating up so i realised the back had fallen off the the prongs wernt in the socket completely. Stuck the hand to it to push them all in forgetting the plug wasnt turned off

Got that tight feeling in my chest for the split second i was stuck to it, it then threw me back about a foot or two, arm didnt feel the same for a couple of weeks, the auld ticker was going 90 all day long

Hey you just might have found a cure for hangovers.

BTW for anyone who has a shocking fetish I know where you can get some defibs.
Ok business is slow nowadays and a sale is a sale.

asherbassad

Plazaman wrote: »

Was checking that a plug on a TV was properly plugged in but never knew that the lead was frayed and wires exposed.

One minute I was watching Litttle House on Prairie, the next I remember I was lying in the middle of the room twitching on the floor with my tounge bleeding from biting it and a trousers full of píss.

Beats watching Little House on the Prairie.

Abi

Only one or two little zaps, nothing major. The last zap I got was a few months ago, one of my pets had been nibbling on the cable for the TV that I hadn't noticed. The same pet did a number on the cable for the fridge and gave himself a zap. Little bollox.

Agricola

I was putting up a lectric fence in a field afew years back. The bull that was in the field sneakily managed to creep up behind me without me noticing. When I turned around to look at him he was doing that ground scratching thing and snorting. I started to back away completely forgetting about the fence behind me and got a massive wallop off it. For a few seconds I didnt know up from down and thought the bull had run around and got me from behind. Feckin Ninja bulls.

jugger0

I put my dink on an electric fence after whizzing on it and experiencing nothing, don't know what i was expecting but my jimmies were severely rustled and i will never ever do something like that again.

L.Jenkins

The Jammy dodger wrote: »

Ah I see ok.

Do peoples bodies then react differently to certain shocks?

Little late to be replying now, but in some cases yes. It depends on the voltage and current. Someone with a heart defect could be severly affected by a mild shock as current nearly always flows across the chest.

While a mild shock can really hurt, always assume it can kill as electricity is merciless.

Skyflyer1234

had one back the years as a child was dared to touch an electric fence haha typical irish thing to do.

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BBDBB

Once when I was trapped in 1955 and wouldnt ya know it, I needed to get back to 1985, only after ensuring that my mum and dad danced at the under the sea dance at their college. Anyway, I drove my DeLorean in an electric storm and my good friend and scientist Doc managed to use a passing electric storm to strike the town clock and charge the flux capacitor just as I was driving under the wire at the right speed. So I was very lucky that the car got electrocuted but I didnt, oh and I also invented rock and roll.

Mr. CooL ICE

Only one mild accidental shock, but a few others which were intentional.

When I was about 8/9, my friend's dad had an old hand-operated generator with crank wheel. For the craic, we would put our fingers on the terminals and turn the wheel and see how long we could hold for. Felt like my fingers were made of worms. Incredibly stupid, but better than being bored while it rained.

When I was 15, I took apart a disposable camera to try to figure out how it worked. I shocked myself in the process. After winding up the flash capacitor, I would put a £1 coin against the terminals by the flash which resulted in a loud bang and two black dents in the coin. I brought it into school and robbed some iron filings from the science room and poured them on top which resulted in iron filings being thrown everywhere. Anyway, people thought this was cool so were trying to touch it to see how bad it was. After each person jumped back in pain, the next macho person thought "it can't be that bad" and would do the exact same thing. Bart Simpson and the electrified cupcake sprung to mind.

My only accident happened when I was fixing an amplifier and decided to pick it up (while the cover was removed) by holding it around the power switch, forgetting that it was plugged in. My arm shot up in the air. Shouldn't have been too bad, but by fixing it, I was bypassing the fuses with a solid wire because I was too lazy to buy replacements.

Capt'n Midnight

When I got last winters ESB bill :eek:

Capt'n Midnight

davet82 wrote: »

Have you ever been electrocuted?

yes i licked a double A battery, who hasn't?

cunning use of a thinly veiled "I has a long tongue" post

(PP3's give a better buzz)

david

Never any substantial shock but...

When I was 7/8yrs old I licked the two terminals on a 9v battery and my tongue went numb. :P

I've also fallen for 'booby trapped' electronic lighters that shock you. Almost as annoying as when someone turns up the adjuster to flame thrower territory.

Capt'n Midnight

1210m5g wrote: »

Voltage isn't the real danger, it's the current that causes the most damage. 50mA for a sustained time is enough to kill some people, where as you could get hit with 20000 volts and survive (with burns)

"It's volts that jolts and mills that kills."

If you hold your arm up to a CRT and then turn it on or off the hairs on your arm will stand up, thousands of volts - no problem.

keeping one hand in your pocket makes you look casual , but reduces the risk of having a path through your arms across your heart

if you are really unlucky a few mA of AC across the heart will cause it to fibrillate , less than needed to trip an ELCB

if you ever have to touch a wire, after turning off the power and checking with a phase tester, use the back of your fingers so any muscle spasm doesn't cause your hand to grasp the wire

good few shocks, and far too many off touching the plug of equipment that has been switched off and unplugged - if reparing mains electronics try to wait for a few hours.

if repairing a switched mode don't, unless it's unavoidable as they are evil lethal bastards that will lull you into thinking they are off and then kill you. Now that CRT's are going extinct the piece of equipment that is way out in front as the most likely thing to kill you is an SMPSU.

seven_eleven

Yes, I was at a big cliffside overlooking the sea. There was cows in the field so there was obviously an electric fence along the cliff edge. As I was admiring the view, I placed my 2 hands on the fence/wire and leaned on it without thinking.
BOOM

Weirdest feeling I have ever experienced. It was like somebody kicked me in the chest full force.

Capt'n Midnight

CardBordWindow wrote: »

I had some pheasant chicks under a red light a few years ago.

LOL

had to read that twice

Hank Scorpio

Was fixing a game console thing a while back and had the cover off, some of the wires inside were unprotected. I stuck my hand in there was it was still turned on and got a bad shock. I just stood and dazed at the wall for a few seconds wondering what had happened, very bizarre feeling

Plumpynutt

Never had a bad electric shock, but I shocked myself with a plug when I was younger. Very weird sensation