Has anybody else here ever got an electrical shock? I was at work today (I work with an electrical contractor), and I was putting some wires in the terminal strip (kinda like a bus bar), half of the strip was 'hot' the side I was working on wasn't (or so I thought! I still can't really figure out why it wasn't), well my finger touched the hot part, it was 120VAC but only a few amps, luckily I pulled away before I did any damage, but it sure was a pretty intresting feeling, anybody who's been shocked with AC knows what Im talking about. Luckily no harm was done. So, lets here your stories about getting shocked, if you stuck something in a socket as a kid we have to hear those stories .

 

well, if you get shocked, you should always go to the doctor to get checked out.

i have never been shocked but a guy that worked for me when i was in the Navy did. he was bored on watch one night and found a roofing staple and decided to bend it all up and make it fit in an electrical outlet.

well, i went to do my usual check up rounds and he told me about it and showed me the burn marks it left on his thump, i made him go to the doc right away, it was the mid-shift but i did not care, the doc got racked out and he hooked some monitor thing to hear his heart and it all checked out fine.

electricity can do some wierd stuff, even if you don't notice it.

 

We were remolding the house here and someone had taking the face plate of the light switch. Well it was dark and I went to turn the light on and ended up putting my hand on a wire behind the switch that was bare and wow. Yes it is very interesting. I also walked into a cow electric fence the other day. That was pretty interesting to. I felt it run threw my body and then my leg kicked backwards all of a sudden and it was all good.

 

Many years ago when I was 16 I worked on a duck farm. We were mucking one of the brooder houses. (That's another story) Well anyway we were taking a break.
At the entrance to every building is a metal conduit from the ground up to the light switch. So I grab onto this conduit to flex my tiny muscles. Little did I know that the short in the system was going to flex them for me. If it was not for the quick thinking of one of the other workers, who body slammed me, I most certainly would not be typing this now. His name was Nate, and I will never, ever forget what he did for me.

Side-note, He was toasted on thunderbird. Who said alcohol is bad for you.
Not me!!!!!!!!!!

 

I was working on my Granddad ranch and was greasing the tractors for him. Well it was dewy and I was using an electric powered greaser. I put that sucker on the rear-end and did not see that my boot were in the wet grass. Well after the normal 5 seconds, I go to release and I cannot move my hand. I was sitting there with grease pumping and trying to develop a plan to get out of this. Thankfully it has a 30 second on cycle and turned off. I get up, put the handle back and went back to the main house and was done for the day.

Oh, I use e-stim all of the time. It makes for a great workout.

 

Aint that the truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

And if the athlete pisses me off, I GET EVEN!!!!!

 

i was wiring a power panel in a machine shop, with the foreman of the power company watching me, waiting for me to get done so the linemen could hook up the 440 3 phase at the pole.

another suprevisor came by and said "hook it up!! you don't get paid to look pretty"

that was just about the same time panel blew up in our faces.

then there was the time i was welding the tailgate on a dump trailer, and did not notice i was standing in a puddle.

or the 4 times i was hit by lightning.

so to answer your question, yes, i have been shocked a time or two.

 

Well that it explains it. You must be very tall, or you have to rethink you lanscaping.

 

Well, I peed on an electric fence on a dare when I was about 10. That was an eye opener.
When I was about 12 I was building a go-cart out of wood at our cabin and the only extension cord we had was an old trouble light (work light in metal cage). It had rained out and I reached down to pick it up and did like 3 somersaults.
Been zapped so many times by a high tension lead (spark plug wire) that it really, really, really makes me mad anymore when it happens.
I often do minor (changing a receptacle or something simple) electrical work around the house without turning off the power and have been bit once or twice.
But, if I am in the panel the main gets turned off. That is for sure.
There have been tons of times over my life and I attribute my relative sanity to them. After all, don't they still use shock therapy for some mental illnesses?

 

actually frank, it was not landscaping, but rather rides. 2 times in cars, once in a truck, and one time on a harley.

now, if i hear thunder, i go inside and hide under the bed.

 

WheelMa's avatar comes to mind. I always thought it was pretty cool.

 

When I was a kid I accidentally put my finger into a light socket. Didn't really hurt but it scared the hell out of me.

 

I have had a few close calls myself once at work I was cleaning the stove out and I asked hubby to turn the power off to the stove well he turned the power off buy not to the stove cause when I went to take the coil out so I could clean it better sparks were flying and my boss was even scared lol, and another time I was putting in a GFI and the guy I was working with forgot something in the shop so I went down there to get a tool and when I came up to finish the wires looks alittle weird and I went to take it out again to fit it the right way and I got shocked boy I chewed him out for that, and boy MIke will have lots of good stories to tell you all he is so daring he does electrical hot and he is one crazy guy for that lol, how many people do you know will change a ballas hot well he does lol

 

Didn't happen directly to me, but back in '95 I was in Thailand living as a boat bum, making money working on other folks boats doing engine repairs, sealing decks, bottom jobs. Mind you, these boats were usually careened on wet sand during high tide, while we scrambled along and aboard to do our work.

Anyway, the power we were using was 220V wired straight to the main, no breakers. The guy I was working with/for (Mick) was a Brit electrician. He had wired a new multi-outlet box on the end of a long extension cord for us to use, and was wrapping almost a full roll of tape around it. He was finishing up, and told me to go plug it in inside the carpenters shack.

There were several power tools going inside when I plugged the line in so I couldn't hear a thing, and as I looked out the window (I couldn't see Mick directly) I saw several of the Thai workers looking towards the beach with funny looks on their faces. Before I even thought about what I was doing, I'd yanked the line out of the wall, and was sprinting outside. Mick was lying on his back about 15 feet from where he'd been, hands out and wrapped around the box, feet and legs in a crouch position, and he was twitching...then still.

After a couple agonizing heartbeats, he sprang up to his feet, huffing like "HUHHHHHH....HUHHHHHH....HUHHHHHH. Then sat down, pulled out a splint of local Yerba, and toked it down...and another...and another...all day long.

He lived, and was okay in the short term...I left 2 weeks after (planned). Still, the rest of the time I was there, the Thai guys kept whispering to me "EEERIK, why you tly to kill MeeeK?".

Mick never directly blamed me 'cuz he knew he'd given me the ok, but being the Big Man on Campus, he never admitted anything either. Bless his wife for asking around and getting the real story, then defending me.