Darwin AwardsBluffboy says: My mate cheated death and burned his eyebrows off looking down the barrel of a potato gun. Tell us about your brushes with the Grim Reaper through stupidity.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 20:01)
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live wiresA paraphrased conversation that took place while a colleague and I were re-wiring an instrument panel, later at the same steel factory where I barely managed to avoid killing myself on a 100cc motorbike:
him: well, the kid's started sleeping all night, finally, which means I'm getting some sleep.
me: that's great news. OK, here's the last wire, let's see if the fuse WHHOOOOAOAAAOOAAA!!! SHIT! FUCK!
him: What happened? What happened?
me: WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK HAPPENED?
It was a 220V live wire, of course, going into a screw terminal, though you aren't supposed to touch it on the way in.
It wasn't the worst shock I had there, though: that honour is reserved for a 200 volt DC jolt that turned me green for a day. AC buzzes you a bit, but DC just kicks you once, hard. No thanks.
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bnt what, me worry?, Sat 14 Feb 2009, 1:27,
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