Man Electrocuted!

[ColinJ]

The thread about the poor electrocuted dog reminded me of a story related to me by a work colleague one Monday morning...

ColinJ: "Did you have a good weekend?"

Colleague: "Yeah, not bad, but I had a bit of an argument with my dad..."

ColinJ: "Oh dear, what happened?"

Colleague: "Well, I was going to go for a drink with him but when I called in at home, my mum said that he was down at his allotment..."

ColinJ: "Right, so you went to meet him?"

Colleague: "Yeah. It's only a couple of hundred yards down the road, so I went down there, walked in the gates and saw him standing next to the big pylon in the middle of the allotments..."

ColinJ: "Okay, so why did the two of you get into an argument?"

Colleague: "Well, when my dad heard me call his name, he kinda lost his footing and fell against the pylon..."

ColinJ: "And..."

Colleague: "And then he went all rigid, and his leg stuck straight out, and started shaking, and he started making this weird grunting noise..."

ColinJ: "Yikes, what was going on!"

Colleague: "Well, it was obvious - the bloody pylon must have been faulty - he was getting electrocuted!"

ColinJ: "OMG - what did you do!"

Colleague: "Well, I was running around shouting 'Hold on dad, I'll get you off it', but of course, I couldn't risk grabbing hold of him or I'd have got electrocuted too..."

ColinJ: "Yes, yes..."

Colleague: "And then I spotted a garden fork lying on the ground next to my dad, so I ran over, picked it up and smacked his arm with it to knock him away from the pylon, and he fell over into a big puddle..."

ColinJ: "Blimey! You'd just saved his life, so what was the argument about?"

Colleague: "Well, it turns out that he wasn't getting electrocuted after all - he was only trying to shake the mud off his wellies...!"

 

[Christopher]

excellent story!

 

[ColinJ]

excellent story!

I thought that he was telling me a tall tale, but when I teased him about it he got really irate so I'm sure that it is a true story!

 

[Keith Oates]

True or not it's still good for a smile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DJ]

Excellent!!!!!

 

[GentleBenn]

The thread about the poor electrocuted dog reminded me of a story related to me by a work colleague one Monday morning...

ColinJ: "Did you have a good weekend?"

Colleague: "Yeah, not bad, but I had a bit of an argument with my dad..."

ColinJ: "Oh dear, what happened?"

Colleague: "Well, I was going to go for a drink with him but when I called in at home, my mum said that he was down at his allotment..."

ColinJ: "Right, so you went to meet him?"

Colleague: "Yeah. It's only a couple of hundred yards down the road, so I went down there, walked in the gates and saw him standing next to the big pylon in the middle of the allotments..."

ColinJ: "Okay, so why did the two of you get into an argument?"

Colleague: "Well, when my dad heard me call his name, he kinda lost his footing and fell against the pylon..."

ColinJ: "And..."

Colleague: "And then he went all rigid, and his leg stuck straight out, and started shaking, and he started making this weird grunting noise..."

ColinJ: "Yikes, what was going on!"

Colleague: "Well, it was obvious - the bloody pylon must have been faulty - he was getting electrocuted!"

ColinJ: "OMG - what did you do!"

Colleague: "Well, I was running around shouting 'Hold on dad, I'll get you off it', but of course, I couldn't risk grabbing hold of him or I'd have got electrocuted too..."

ColinJ: "Yes, yes..."

Colleague: "And then I spotted a garden fork lying on the ground next to my dad, so I ran over, picked it up and smacked his arm with it to knock him away from the pylon, and he fell over into a big puddle..."

ColinJ: "Blimey! You'd just saved his life, so what was the argument about?"

Colleague: "Well, it turns out that he wasn't getting electrocuted after all - he was only trying to shake the mud off his wellies...!"

Sorry to tell you this ,I've heard this many different way's over the years, an electrician is in a sub station , or the mans leaning into an electrical cabinet.When his mate comes in sees him shaking,hits him breaks his arm,
when all he was doing was trying to shake something off his foot !
It's gotta be a joke ,or a coincidence !

 

[ColinJ]

Sorry to tell you this ,I've heard this many different way's over the years, an electrician is in a sub station , or the mans leaning into an electrical cabinet.When his mate comes in sees him shaking,hits him breaks his arm,
when all he was doing was trying to shake something off his foot !
It's gotta be a joke ,or a coincidence !

Right, the next time I see him I'm going to look him straight in the eyes and ask him if it was true or not! If it was a joke, then he kept up the pretence for years...

 

[Mr Pig]

This one is true.

When we were kids my brother, who was a toddler at the time, stuck a knife down the back of a plug (don't ask what the h*** a toddler was doing with a knife!). My mother told me to grab him before he electrocuted himself. Just as I grabbed him he stick the knife behind the plug..*BANG* and I landed on the other side of the room! He was totally unhurt, just sat there gurgling.

He also almost killed himself in his teens by plugging in a plug that had no back on it!

 

[Gerry Attrick]

I heard of a tragic story related to me a few years ago by a person who was on the spot. Apparently a fairground worker on the waltzers went for a leak under the the ride whilst it was underway. As it was pitch black under there, he didn't realise that he was about to piddle on a live 440v terminal. It was terminal. Poor chap.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

When I was small, and my sister was even smaller, our parents had one of those bedheads with a small neon reading lamp in it. One day when my sister was maybe two years old, my parents were relaxing downstairs when they were alerted by my sister screaming her head off from their bedroom. When they got upstairs, they found her standing on the bed with the little neon tube out of its sockets, the light switch in the "on" position and her thumbs both blackened where she'd stuck one in each light socket. And my dad an electrician too.

 

[derall]

I heard of a tragic story related to me a few years ago by a person who was on the spot. Apparently a fairground worker on the waltzers went for a leak under the the ride whilst it was underway. As it was pitch black under there, he didn't realise that he was about to piddle on a live 440v terminal. It was terminal. Poor chap.

Variation on a theme, usually related as urinating on the third rail or an electric fence. Debunked on Snopes. WARNING: Very nasty photo on that link

 

[Mr Pig]

WARNING: Very nasty photo on that link

No kidding!

 

[Mr Pig]

My father-in-law asked if I could fix his hedge trimmers last year. He's cut the cable with them, about two-feet from the trimmers, then just twisted the wires together and wrapped them in tape! "The wires keep pulling out" he said! :0( Technically minded he isn't.

 

[Mr Pig]

Whilst I remember:

My bother, must have been about seven at the time, put a plug on the transformer for the train set. Didn't put the back on the plug and when he plugged it in his hand stuck to it! He would've been killed but he pushed his leg against the wall to get free. He had massive blisters on his hand but it healed up perfectly.

I got the blame for that as he'd been asking me to put a plug on it for ages and I hadn't bothered. But then I got the blame for everything the twat did to himself...

 

[papercorn2000]

This one is true.

When we were kids my brother, who was a toddler at the time, stuck a knife down the back of a plug (don't ask what the h*** a toddler was doing with a knife!). My mother told me to grab him before he electrocuted himself. Just as I grabbed him he stick the knife behind the plug..*BANG* and I landed on the other side of the room! He was totally unhurt, just sat there gurgling.

He also almost killed himself in his teens by plugging in a plug that had no back on it!

My sister did something very similar. She couldn't pull out a plug, so used a pair of scissors to prise it out! Predicatable results!