re: Have you ever been electrocuted?

No because I would be dead

I fricked around with a T1 phone line on a 66 block and found out. That's why they got them little rubber stoppers on there.

my cousin used to grab hotwire for the cattle and hold it and smile

baw is a little off though, multiple mental issues

Probably 30 or 40 times. Once by either 277 or 480 volts. My dad was an electrician and we used to work hot all the time. Terrible idea, but I was too young to know any better.

The 277/480 one made my bones shake. For all of the 120 volt ones I could feel every cycle. It kind of hurt but was super exhilarating immediately after.

Rebuilding after 2016. I ate so much house current trying to save money on electricians. I credit it with making me immune to COVID. Last year an antique string of Christmas lights with a broken bulb got me pretty good, too.

Took a bite out of an extension cord that was hooked up to one of those old floor tv’s
when I was around 4 back in 84. Lit my arse up, scars inside my mouth and on the outside.

Yeah. I climbed a tree as a kid and my head hit a live powerline. Next thing I remember was coming to hanging on for dear life to the bottom branch.

I would assume so, just in a good way.

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.