electricity
on a bored saturday morning, i was playing with a freind when i got bored, thinking what would happen if i put this bit of wire into the plus which is meant for my really old stereo

so i take wire and insert into both ends
BOOM, lights out, arm all bruised and in shock,

i didnt think 240 volts would hurt,
but what made it worse was i took a quarter of the village out (the electricity supply in the village was antiquated) lesson learnt nope. (i did something similar with a computer kettle type plug a month later)
( hooker1uk Filth monger of the lowest degree!, Mon 24 Dec 2007, 14:02, 2 replies)

Pffft
That beats what my mum did today. As I was sewing some stuff on her sewing machine she said "there's a light on here if it helps" and turns the lamp on. Big bang and big flash and lots of little bits of glass everywhere from the bulb which hadn't been used for about 30 years.
Brother came downstairs to see why all the electricity in the house had gone off.
( thistle, Mon 24 Dec 2007, 19:22, closed)

I
.. can't count the amount of times I've shorted fuses in the house. Good thing is that trial and error makes you learn something
(MrBlue ding!, Mon 24 Dec 2007, 23:33, closed)