You ever get almost electrocuted

[Claudia Love]

I was thinking of this earlier when a gentlemen talked about a farm. I went wild berry picking in the woods with my friend about 14 years old and I walked right into a barb wired electric fence I was tapping lol then I fell done. I remember telling my parents and there like oh Candee sounds like you had lots of adventure today LMAO. im like but mom I coulda died or is that fence not strong enough to electrocute you ?

 

[Spunky1]

An old house I was renting while going to school. I had the master bedroom that had its own bathroom and shower. One day while adjusting the water in the shower I felt the very weird sensation like pins and needles throughout my arms and body. It was a trippy buzz! It only happened while Standing with the water running and touching the metal faucet. This went on for a few weeks, until I nonchalantly mentioned it to the landlord.
He was like holy shit don’t use it until it’s checked out.
Turns out a live wire was touching a metal pipe sending a electrical current through it ! Years later I heard a story of someone getting killed the same way.

 

[LTO_3]

Electrified fences are not meant to kill but only to warn...or to keep certain animals contained. No worse then an electric shock you get from an electrical outlet in your home. And who hasn't done that!! lol.

LTO_3

 

[escortsxxx]

Ive done the electric fence thing as well and it depends on the fence. In North Korea they are meant to kill for example. But here for ones for animals they are mostly unpleasant - not the military ones however. Also note a defective fence can kill.

" In 1915, during World War I, the German army installed the "Wire of Death", an electrified fences along the border between Belgium and the Netherlands to prevent unauthorized movement of people across the border. The fences covered 300 kilometres and consisted of several strands of copper wire, backed with barbed wire, and energized to several thousand volts. An estimated 3,000 human fatalities were caused by the fence, as well as the destruction of livestock. " -WIre of Death, Wikipedia

Accidents

https://esasafe.com/assets/files/esasafe/pdf/Corporate_Reports/ESA-OESR-2019.pdf

 

[IM469]

Electrified fences are not meant to kill but only to warn...or to keep certain animals contained. No worse then an electric shock you get from an electrical outlet in your home. And who hasn't done that!! lol.

LTO_3

Actually that isn't accurate. An electric fence has limited current so similar to a static charge - you can feel a zap without actually dying. An electric outlet is more than capable of electrocuting you depending on your resistance. If you have shoes, dry feet - the current can be small but if your resistance is low - wet feet, sitting in the tub (water) - the current can be enough to kill you.

 

[Darts]

I heard amps kill but volts don't. No, I never put that theory to test.

5 important Difference between volts and amps (Volts vs Amps) (electricalclassroom.com)

 

[escortsxxx]

I heard amps kill but volts don't. No, I never put that theory to test.

5 important Difference between volts and amps (Volts vs Amps) (electricalclassroom.com)

Amps are like the amount of water falling off a hill in a water fall. The height is the volts. Rain has lots of volts as it comes down miles from the sky, but very little amps (volume) . Amps as said is like the volume of water.
Niagra falls has LOTS of Amps and a decent amount of volts too, but even half that distance and it dosnt make much difference its still very lethal.

 

[Darts]

Hey OP, don't try this at home.

 

[poker]

I was thinking of this earlier when a gentlemen talked about a farm. I went wild berry picking in the woods with my friend about 14 years old and I walked right into a barb wired electric fence I was tapping lol then I fell done. I remember telling my parents and there like oh Candee sounds like you had lots of adventure today LMAO. im like but mom I coulda died or is that fence not strong enough to electrocute you ?

My dads best friend had a horse farm. Along the top of the fence was a "shock" wire. It gave you a good zap... but I doubt it would kill you.

 

[LTO_3]

Actually that isn't accurate. An electric fence has limited current so similar to a static charge - you can feel a zap without actually dying. An electric outlet is more than capable of electrocuting you depending on your resistance. If you have shoes, dry feet - the current can be small but if your resistance is low - wet feet, sitting in the tub (water) - the current can be enough to kill you.

I agree with you about the electrical outlet info (and exposure to water) but I was only referencing an accidental dry contact to an electrical outlet. It's quite the "buzz" and one reason I've never done it again. Hmmm, hope I haven't jinxed myself now.

LTO_3

 

[Claudia Love]

Hey OP, don't try this at home.
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I knew some of you would do funny pics LOL ....but seriously ive rented places in the past where just plugging in my laptop I got zapped and the landlord was like the plugs work ....im like ya they work so good I might get really zapped, a year later I plugged in my laptop and boom it fried it almost had a fire too sparks everywhere I should have made him buy me a new laptop.

 

[Ponderling]

Working as an electricians apprentice 35 years ago.
Putting a basic temporary screw shell receptacle in a ceiling box in a reno bathroom, so wall board tapers could work finish coats at nights
Power was on in the house, but no switch in the wall box by the door yet. Should have been a safe task to do.

Usual work dress of long pants, long sleeve shirt, insulated work boots in a good state of repair, and laced up to minimize trip injury on a job site.
Standing a step or two up on 6' insulated A frame fibreglass step ladder.
All these are to protect in one way or other against impacts of accidental power contact

Strip the white wire and connect it, strip the black wire.
Bang I feel the surge and fall off the ladder.
Falling to the floor hurt the most, but I was not dead.

Turns out the guy making connections in the switch box for power in power out and switched lead to the light messed up, and power out had not connected to anything downstream yet, so no one knew the lead to the receptacle was connected wrong and powered all the time.

Now in my tool belt I have a little voltage sensor that chirps if it is near and energized wire, to protect against such an accident from happening again.

 

[y2kmark]

Actually that isn't accurate. An electric fence has limited current so similar to a static charge - you can feel a zap without actually dying. An electric outlet is more than capable of electrocuting you depending on your resistance. If you have shoes, dry feet - the current can be small but if your resistance is low - wet feet, sitting in the tub (water) - the current can be enough to kill you.

This is why it's suggested that righties watch Tucker Carlson in the bathtub. Rubber duckie, anyone?...

 

[james t kirk]

I've been shocked by 120 volts AC many times in my life. Sometimes you think a circuit is deenergized, but it turns out its not.

Never pleasant, startles you, but not lethal. You let go pretty quick.

Friend of mine came in contact with 347 volts AC. It really rattled him good, but he was ok.

My understanding is that if the current gets to your heart, it can kill you because our natural pacemaker controls the heart with electricity. If you interrupt that, you could likely die. Your skin has electrical resistance to it, but if your skin is compromised somehow, and you come in contact with electricity, you could die. That's why when they executed people with the electric chair, they wet the skin and they give the electricity a path through you body by hooking up electrodes to your head and your ankles. Plus the high voltage and well, you know the rest.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

I've been shocked by 120 volts AC many times in my life. Sometimes you think a circuit is deenergized, but it turns out its not.

Never pleasant, startles you, but not lethal. You let go pretty quick.

Friend of mine came in contact with 347 volts AC. It really rattled him good, but he was ok.

My understanding is that if the current gets to your heart, it can kill you because our natural pacemaker controls the heart with electricity. If you interrupt that, you could likely die. Your skin has electrical resistance to it, but if your skin is compromised somehow, and you come in contact with electricity, you could die. That's why when they executed people with the electric chair, they wet the skin and they give the electricity a path through you body by hooking up electrodes to your head and your ankles. Plus the high voltage and well, you know the rest.

347 is the killer I heard from an electrician. Something about it grabs you and you can't let go if you touch it. Another electrician told me his boss would tell him to stand close with a piece of 2 by 4 while he was working on something. If the boss got zapped and couldn't let go the order was hit his arm as hard as you could with the piece of wood to break the grip. Even if it meant breaking his arm. ( Or you could turn off the power).
Another buddy told me he pissed against an electric fence going home one night drunk. Said it knocked him across the road.

 

[james t kirk]

347 is the killer I heard from an electrician. Something about it grabs you and you can't let go if you touch it. Another electrician told me his boss would tell him to stand close with a piece of 2 by 4 while he was working on something. If the boss got zapped and couldn't let go the order was hit his arm as hard as you could with the piece of wood to break the grip. Even if it meant breaking his arm. ( Or you could turn off the power).
Another buddy told me he pissed against an electric fence going home one night drunk. Said it knocked him across the road.

You can let go of 347 AC because it's alternating current. I.e. It's a sinusoidal wave which is 0 volts 60 times a second (60 hertz AC)

It's high voltage DC current that you can't let go of because it's just on.

The subway runs at 600 volts DC for example. You don't want to touch that third rail.

 

[Mr Deeds]

Does being tased count?

 

[onomatopoeia]

A bolt of lightning missed me by about two feet around 1975. Most people don't know this, but lightning has a smell. The energy fuses some of the regular oxygen at the impact site, (O2), into ozone, (O3).

 

[downbound123]

A bolt of lightning missed me by about two feet around 1975. Most people don't know this, but lightning has a smell. The energy fuses some of the regular oxygen at the impact site, (O2), into ozone, (O3).

Was that right after you gave God a nope to one of his answers on your trivia game?????

 

[Brill]

When I was 17 I changed a 3 foot long fluorescent light where I worked. I made the mistake of touching both ends trying to install it and the shock felt like someone kicked me in the back. It took me a few minutes to calm down.