re: Have you ever been electrocuted?

What causes "120" and these dreaded "240" shocks? I'm curious


I got shocked badly when I was a kid. Was at a carnival and they had those racing games where you roll a ball up to like a triangle of holes like skeeball and it makes your horse gallop so you roll the balls and try to make your horse win the race. Maybe you get what I'm saying.

Anyways. A game was going. And I was a little kid and I could see the metal little flipper the skee ball was hitting in the hole to make the game realize the ball had rolled into that hole.

So I reach my hand down the skeeball alley thing under the little plastic cover to press the metal thing to just... cheat essentially and make the thing move.

I touched the metal flipper and this surge just came over me. Luckily I was able to snap back.