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Bluffboy 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.

(, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 20:01)
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It's not THAT dangerous
so long as you don't touch two wires at once, surely?

I changed a bulb in my flat shortly after moving in, without knowing my way around the horrendously complex DIY-ed-by-an-idiot series of breaker-boxes.

Turns out I'd changed it with the light switch on and the breakers open- screw electric, it's enough of a shock when you screw in a bulb to a "dead" socket and it blasts 100W of photons straight into your eyes...
(, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 12:33, Reply)

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