AND ME!!!
I was snip-snipping too! I would have been an innocent victim of her stupidity.
This is the woman who put her tongue on some hair-curling tongs to "see if they were hot enough yet".
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 14:15, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Plastic handled scissors?
Lucky bastard I've had 240v go through me before

It hurt
( Peej, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 14:20, Reply)

They WERE plastic-handled
But there was no sparking or anything on the metal bits, so we just assume the lights were very well idiot-proofed.
When my dad stuck his mains tester right into my living room lights, there were sparks everywhere, the plastic handle got all sooty and a bit of metal melted.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 14:22, Reply)

You are lucky but as they were plastic handled
and you had to cut through the shielding before you touched the metal the circuit was broken on the first cut so sparks were unlikely :)
( Peej, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 14:28, Reply)

I see
I love hearing technical things. I have no real desire to understand. I think I'd enjoy being read a TV manual.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 14:29, Reply)

Actually lauged out loud in the office then
Thank god no one was near enough to hear me
(wehttamman via B3ta for microwave, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 14:20, Reply)

Snort some coffee out of your nose as well next time
Or I'll consider myself a comedy failure
; )
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 14:23, Reply)