I just had shock from a plug socket

Another time I saw my tradesman fly out of a cupboard on his backside. A 45 year old man who must have slid about 10 feet in a fully seated position. Scary at the time, funny as hell now :).
 
*Chris said:
I have one of those electric fly swatters.

I had to see how much it hurt if putting a finger to it.

Arm was dead for ages.
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I was bet a quid to put my hand on one of those for a minute, easy money but it did start burning skin.

I've had a pretty bad shock through my graphics card, forgetting to switch it off completely.

Had 3 electric shocks from the shower the other day too ( the metal shower tube thing), i think that one could have been pretty damn serious if id been a bit wetter. Apparantly something with the electrics went wrong and it was earthing through it.
 
DavidB said:
Had 3 electric shocks from the shower the other day too ( the metal shower tube thing), i think that one could have been pretty damn serious if id been a bit wetter. Apparantly something with the electrics went wrong and it was earthing through it.
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Back when I worked at Starbucks, our frappaccino blenders were overheating due to us massively overloading them in a busy period.

One started to smoke, so I went to unplug it so it could 'cool down'.. queue the loudest cuss word you've ever heard in a shop!

The shock literally threw me across the floor, about 11 foot, and my arm was twitching, my heart beating incredibly fast, and all the customers hushed looking for the guy who screamed the F word :p

Don't touch wet plugs, ladies and gents!
 
I've been zapped many times over the years. Mostly when I used to build computers for a living. The old AT cases with the 4 Pin power switches were always getting me. The rubber hood used to slip down a little exposing the terminals. I lost count of the amount of times I turned a case around and caught the bare terminals with my fingers.

Its a strange feeling which used to bother me. Now days I'm a bit 'meh' to it all. Think I've killed all the nerves off lol.
 
I don't see how you got an electric shock from pulling a plug out the mains. Surely that's a health and safety hazzard in the workplace?

Closest I've been to an electric shock is sticking a European 2-pin plug into a UK 3-pin mains when I was a kid. Blew the cable off the plug, burnt the mains faceplate and also my fingers! Lesson learnt.
 
What sort of current do you draw when touching bare mains cables/plug sockets in the home?

I think modern wired homes have 32amp MCB on the socket wiring ring.
 
Helping my mum wash the dishes when I was about 8 or 9 I decided to put the kettle cord - which was still plugged into the wall and turned to ON - into the sink of water.

Oh, how my parents laughed when they thought I'd killed myself :(
 
badbob said:
You need a combination of voltage and amperage to kill you. 25,000 volts from a stun gun won't kill you, buy 240v with high current will (mains)
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Hell, you can die from 1volt, as long as the amperage is high enough. Which is what some people don't seem to realise.
 
When I was 7 or so I decided to changed the bulb in my bedside lamp when it blew... only the new bulb wouldn't come on... I thought I had switched the lamp off at the mains (didn't think to pull out the plug) removed the bulb and pressed down on the contacts in the lamp... I remember I snapped back a step, went rigid for a moment and had a weird acidic/salty taste in my mouth.

At about the same age my brother decided to cut through a hair dryer cable with a pair of scissors - thank goodness the handles were non-conductive and he wasn't touching any of the metal... nice loud bang and a perfect hole in the middle of the blades about the size of the cable.
 
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Some years ago friends of mine bought a cottage in a small village. They hired the professional electrician who lived next door and had a young family to do some work.
My friend came home from shopping(with her kids) and found the electricians legs dangling from the loft hatch in the bathroom......stone dead!
At the inquest it was stated he attempted to do a bit of wiring without bothering to turn off the supply and that quite a few sparks do that.:eek:
 
Peño said:
I don't see how you got an electric shock from pulling a plug out the mains. Surely that's a health and safety hazzard in the workplace?
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When I got a shock at work, the plug was wet. And when I say wet, I mean the socket banks were under the ice sink, which leaked. We had to have rubber mats on the floor, as on busy frapaccino days, the floor would be flooded.

It was a massive health and safety hazzard, but my boss at the time couldn't give two *****. Once, a mentally ill lady.. dirtied.. one of the couches. Our boss cleaned it with a tissue, and ten minutes later had customers sitting, eating and drinking there.

Needless to say, after three months of his recklessness, we finally managed to get him sacked. Thank god I'm no longer in retail!
 
The only time I've had an electric shock was when I had a lovely custard cream in one hand, and the power cable for my Mega Drive in the other hand.

For no apparent reason, I wanted to see what electricity tasted like and so put the power cable (which was plugged in) into my mouth.

The custard cream tasted even better after that!
 
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