How many times have you been electrocuted?

How many times have you been electrocuted?Please state how

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So i'm not an idiot! Or maybe I am, I touched an electric cow fence to see what would happen. :hitting:

I was on the phone during a bad lightening storm and shocked my head.

I did burn myself kinda bad with my fish tank, arranging the decor and my arm was resting on the heater slowly burnt the crap out of it.
 
sploke said:
You have the coolest toys ever. Makes me wish I stayed with EE instead of switching to business school.
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Thanks Sploke... but I wish I'd done EE too lol. I went to school for EET, similar but different, and ended up getting a decent job, dropping out, and never finishing. I'd go back but practically impossible with my schedule now. Might limit my options in the future, but I'm happy with were I'm at. Would have been nice to be a real engineer though. But I still work on stuff as a hobby. Current project is working on a handheld magnetic pulse riffle. Just wish I had more free time.
 
Not aquaria related.. I was about 13 years old. I was with my father on the family farm.. wasn't fun.. electric fences should be outlawed.. :lipssealedsmilie:
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lol that must of been pretty strong because the electric fences we have don't really hurt they just feel.... annoying. Of course I always walked into them :troll: bad enough I already have an aphro.. lol The horses sure didn't like it either but thats the point.
 
time to bring this thing back from the grave....

ive been shocked while unplugging my cars engine block heater while it was all wet from melting ice, and once while plugging in something... forgot what:wall:
 
When I was 4 I put a pin in the wall outlet. I never did that again.

Every single time I touch something at the grocery store, a long, visable and noisy spark goes from me to the object. I f'ing hate it. Even if I touch my kids at the store I shock them. They hurt and sometimes they take my breath away.
 
ostrangeone89 said:
lol that must of been pretty strong because the electric fences we have don't really hurt they just feel.... annoying. Of course I always walked into them :troll: bad enough I already have an aphro.. lol The horses sure didn't like it either but thats the point.
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Horse fences are not bad at all...they pulse so its just a momentary shock. cows are a lot dumber so the voltage is usually higher, and constant, so those fences hurt a lot more.
 
tennesseemom said:
When I was 4 I put a pin in the wall outlet. I never did that again.

Every single time I touch something at the grocery store, a long, visable and noisy spark goes from me to the object. I f'ing hate it. Even if I touch my kids at the store I shock them. They hurt and sometimes they take my breath away.
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I had one car and one leather bomber jacket that the combination produced some pretty high voltage upon exiting :shocked: Was painful at times.

One thing I learned from my high voltage hobbies and getting zapped with over a hundred thousand volts... you feel it alot worse where the arc of electricity jumps to your skin through the air. If it conducts to your skin via something metal, you dont feel it nearly as bad. In the case of static electricity you dont feel it hardly at all. So what I would do when I got out of the car was before I touched the door to close, I'd hold my car key in my fingers and point it at the door (I did it at the door lock since it was bare exposed metal). Once you got within a quarter inch or so, ZAP! You could really see the flash doing it this way (if it was dark out), yet feel nothing. It worked like a charm and was kinda neat to do. If you suffer from getting zapped from your car, try it.
 
I've been shocked too many times to remember. But here's what I can recall:

water heater
old tv antenna
powerhead
peeled electrical cord
lighting fixtures
electric roof.. i was wearing slippers but I felt bits of shock going through my foot as I was trying to run to the edge of the roof to jump lol :grinyes:
 
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