good story man....im an electrician in the Navy, i was just over in iraq dealing with army dudes that are just like you ...fucking around with shit and getting zapped.


no big deal though, i got zapped numerous times on 240/50 hertz...not too bad. 400 volts though, that will let you know you're alive. yowza.


also for future electrical reference, you're ok touching a hot, as long as you're insulated and not grounded. what that means is, if you touch the hot wire, touch it with a pair of pliers and don't touch any of the metal around it with the pliers or your other hand.

i worked on hot stuff a gazillion times, you just have to be careful.
higher4hockey Reviewed by higher4hockey on . The Craziest Thing Happened To Me!! So there I was sitting in my dorm room at Montana State University and decided I would get a little light on the subject, so I went to plug my lava lamp in and when I went to do this the plug got pushed back in the wall. So I thought that I would be able to pop it back out without worrying about getting shocked or anything like that, and BOY was I wrong! haha. I took a small screwdriver and very carefully tried to pry the outlet back out of the hole and all of a sudden hit a live wire, and Rating: 5