-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
has anyone else been electrocuted
- Thread starter Artoris
- Start date
ClanOfNone
Member
Got fried swapping out a projection bulb when I worked in movie theaters as a kid, forgot to ground out the capacitor.
Got thrown like 10 feet and layed there twitching while my brain reset itself, it was quite the experience.
At least the xenon bulb didn't burst in my face.
Got thrown like 10 feet and layed there twitching while my brain reset itself, it was quite the experience.
At least the xenon bulb didn't burst in my face.
Last edited:
Trogdor1123
Member
I did but not too bad. I was climbing a sign ( not mine so it’s extra stupid) and must have hit something as I got a terrible shock and burn on the inside of my knee. My own stupid fault.
BossLackey
Gold Member
I can't really think of a time where I got anything bad. Just your bog-standard static shock.
I still say this is the moment that film making as an art form peaked and it’s been downhill ever since.
On topic I’ve never been electrocuted other than the time I let someone hit me with a stun gun to see what it felt like.
chromhound
Member
He's dead dead....
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Yes, other people have been electrocuted.
///PATRIOT
Banned
What are the scenarios when electricity blow you away and get a hold on you?
RoboFu
One of the green rats
Yup I’ve worked with my brother who is an electrician when I was younger and I’ve seen that happen to alot if people.
Luckily most of the time circuit breakers do their jobs and they weee not in for long.
Last edited:
Artoris
Gold Member
"electricity blow you away" this looks like there is high resistant to it "get a hold on you" and this is the opposite
RoboFu
One of the green rats
It will never really blow you away.. it will more likely blow you up and the pressure will throw your lifeless body 20 ft.
Linemen get their heads blown off and huge holes out their bodies if they touch the wrong things at the same time.
dr_octagon
Banned
Nothing serious fortunately, just mild shock or static.
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Yep, it shows you just how fragile life is, something as simple as attempting to move a fan, and gone.
Trogdor1123
Member
Did he die?
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Yep.
clarky
Gold Member
The last thing you should do it touch someone if the are like that, unless you fancy the same fate. The other guy was super lucky there. Grab something non conductive like a plank of wood or a suitcase in this situation and knock them off.
Last edited:
Rran
Member
ACKCCTUALLYYY you aren't electrocuted unless you die. It's a portmanteau of electric + execute. You were shocked, not electrocuted. EDIT: I guess it's since changed to include serious electrical injury. No fun, now I can't be pedantic about this any longer.
But yeah, it's a weird, unpleasant feeling to get shocked. I got a jolt from messing with our smoke detectors once.
But yeah, it's a weird, unpleasant feeling to get shocked. I got a jolt from messing with our smoke detectors once.
Last edited:
p_xavier
Authorized Fister
AlteredForms
Banned
Static electricity from the fingers and that’s about it.
I’m not sure what’s more surprising. That you were on the floor with a fried brain and nobody to help you, or that they allowed a 15 year old kid to do such a dangerous job.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Airport staff electrocuted to death beside oblivious co-worker in Yemen
The grisly death of an airport personnel at Yemen's Aden International Airport has been captured on a closed-circuit television camera. The incident, which reportedly happened on July 14, saw airport staff Lofti Ibrahim al-Shamakh suffering an electric shock that led to his immediate death. In...
www.asiaone.com
DeceptiveAlarm
Gold Member
I have been shocked. Many times. I wouldn't call it electrocuted though. The older I get the more I worry about arc-flash. I try to use proper ppe.
p_xavier
Authorized Fister
Try peeing on it, it's hotter.
El Pistolero
Banned
Roll Fizzlebeef
Member
Did few years as an electrical apprentice, got my share of zaps. my first instructor called it a right of passage . Nothing more than 240v.
We did have a guy on our crew who got himself hit with 600v. Complete moron doing something he shouldnt have, was lucky he wasnt killed
We did have a guy on our crew who got himself hit with 600v. Complete moron doing something he shouldnt have, was lucky he wasnt killed
saturnalian
Member
I got shocked once changing a broken light switch, wasn't bad at all.
But I don't get why all you electricians genuinely risk your lives dealing with huge amounts of power, just for the cash? I'll never understand it.
But I don't get why all you electricians genuinely risk your lives dealing with huge amounts of power, just for the cash? I'll never understand it.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
I’m no fool.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I've been shocked a bunch of times by the same lamp. But nothing major or anything.
My parents have this old ass night table lamp which is probably 50 years old and metal. It's copper or bronze I think as it's got that brownish colour.
It's got one of those tiny little switches you turn/click to turn on and off. After doing it enough times, the top part of the lamp becomes loose. And when that happens you get a big shock up your arm when turning the switch. LOL.
What you got to do is unplug it and tighten the housing near the bulb. Then no more shock. It kind of looked like this but older and shittier.
My parents have this old ass night table lamp which is probably 50 years old and metal. It's copper or bronze I think as it's got that brownish colour.
It's got one of those tiny little switches you turn/click to turn on and off. After doing it enough times, the top part of the lamp becomes loose. And when that happens you get a big shock up your arm when turning the switch. LOL.
What you got to do is unplug it and tighten the housing near the bulb. Then no more shock. It kind of looked like this but older and shittier.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Yep, a crappy step down transformer from 220 to 110 and I got the 220 end of it. Twitched the hell out of my spine and threw me back a little.
I collect VHS tapes
Member
yes, it feels both weird and terrible
Dirk Benedict
Member
Electricity is a hell of a fucking thing. It would zip right through your cock and.. well.. I am sure you already know.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
You are shock! Not a single Fist of the North Star meme in this entire thread. Tsk tsk 
My sister stuck a key in an electrical outlet when she was a kid. Threw her back. Scared my parents. My mother always warned me about doing it. I’ve always wondered if that’s still a thing or if we are just more prepared in the home.
My sister stuck a key in an electrical outlet when she was a kid. Threw her back. Scared my parents. My mother always warned me about doing it. I’ve always wondered if that’s still a thing or if we are just more prepared in the home.
The thrill.
Kenpachii
Member
When i was a kid i pissed on a electric fence, wasn't fun. Felt like somebody cut me through half.
when i was doing my IT education, some cable was broken it seems like but plugged in, so i grabbed it and got a massive shock in my arm for like 2-3 seconds. Felt again like somebody ran over you.
After that nothing anymore.
when i was doing my IT education, some cable was broken it seems like but plugged in, so i grabbed it and got a massive shock in my arm for like 2-3 seconds. Felt again like somebody ran over you.
After that nothing anymore.
zeioIIDX
Member
When I was about 10 or 11, I was at my dad's job one evening waiting for him to finish up. I always had fun walking around the office because it was after hours and I could explore the building and be nosy. Well...right outside his computer room, I saw some power outlets that were in the middle of the damn floor and they were angled upwards like a ramp. Never seen that shit before. Now...I don't know what the fuck possessed me to do this. I really don't. But I grabbed a paperclip from a desk, straightened it, crouched down, and inserted it into one of those power outlets. All I remember was that I saw a spark of purple/blue, heard a loud pop, and something caused my body to be thrown back onto my ass a good several feet. I don't recall my fingers stinging or hurting but I do remember my heart absolutely racing. Sooooo fucking dumb.