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Last time I crashed my bike, as I flew through the air towards the car in front of me not much went through my head apart from "You idiot". No tunnels, no lights to stay away from, no smiling family members beckoning to me.

Surely you've had a better near-death experience?

(, Thu 25 Nov 2004, 11:35)
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Not me again, but my dad
My dad was an electrician in a big shop. He was installing a huge electrical panel in a factory (with the resultant jigundously high voltage) and was squatting with a 300 lb buss panel in his arms to slide it in. The factory was live, but Dad was safe because the buss panel was turned off. Unbeknownst to him, the panel was faulty and a screw had fallen down the back and had formed a connection. The fucker was live.

When my dad slid this in, 480 volts went thru him. I don't know how many amps were involved, but a loud explosion occured and he hit the other wall. The foreman said the only reason he lived was that:

1. he was squatting and when the charge went thru him, it straightened his legs so violently he pushed himself away from the live panel.

2. he weighed almost 300 lbs himself (this is the morbidly obese guy, remember?) and the inertia of his weight also helped break the connection.

When he got home from work, he showed us the 2 holes in his right hand where the charge has gone in and out and the hole blown in his shoe. My mother about shit her pants when she found she'd almost become a widow with 10 children.
(, Sun 28 Nov 2004, 0:54, Reply)

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