Have you ever been electrically shocked?

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static electric from door......

Once, while changing a light bulb. Accidentally stuck a finger in the bulb socket

Shocked myself on an uncovered light switch when I was 6. Felt life I got burnt on the finger until it stopped, then it kinda tingled.

I last did the '60-cycle polka' about 12 years ago; fixing a power supply on a docking station, not realizing I'd left it plugged in..

The annoying times were every once in awhile, I'd be playing in a band, and the mics weren't grounded. Kissing 110V is no fun. (Peter Frampton, back in the day, would have his roadies 'kiss the hot mic' to make sure they never did it to him...

I first did it pushing a screwdriver into a wall socked (I was 'bout 4), made a perfect one-point landing about 5 feet away...

yes.

I was doing the dishes. I had one hand in the sink and I reached over to grab a fork out of a pot that was on the stove - so that I could wash it....and OMG!....it felt like my hand was caught in a vice-grip...and I couldn't let go....I was holding the dish rag with the other hand....it was the - longest moment in time - it felt like God took his hand and covered my hand .....the power was like nothing I had ever felt - then.....

somehow....

I broke the connection - and found myself thrown across the room and ended up on the floor....the dish rag ended up wrapped around the leg of the table......


I started yelling...."I'm dying"...."I'm dying!! !"...

and a friend banged on the door of my apartment - I got up and let them in and was so upset....and kept telling her I was dying!! !...

my friend laughed and said that I couldn't be dying because I was yelling so loudly!!

I think everyone has had some sort of electric shock.
My first that I remember was with the old electric fence and that was with a school - bo-oring

The second was my own dumb fault, I was playing around with an old power supply on my then relatively new PC, I uncovered a few rubber covers to touch one of the 4 terminals and felt a huge snap, when I realised, "Hey, I left the thing switched on!"

The third time, well, I don't know what happened, I plugged in the power pack, held the switch component in my right hand, applied power INTO the unit, depressed the switch in my right hand and a split second after switching on, I felt a huge snap. My instant reflexes were to drop the switch. I examined it and couldn't find anything wrong with it.


The electricity rating in the UK was a standard 240v - now it down to 230v standard. Probably another drop to 220v soon

Oh, removing a spark plug lead on any running engine is NOT dangerous, but touching the spark plug elements that generate the VERY HIGH sparks and I'm talking thousands are very dangerous and can kill