Have you ever had an electric shock??

Question

I stupidly picked up my four slice toaster with wet hands and the shock I got was unbelievable I am still a bit shaken and scared

Answer 1

I tried ot change my closet light fixture without turning the breaker to off.  I was on a ladder and was able to get the old fixture off then I put my screwdriver to the wires and POP!  I fell from the ladder and the fixture is still broken.  Throw that toaster AWAY!

Answer 2

If you are in the UK check the earthing arrangements in both the toaster and the socket;  meanwhile dry your hands

Answer 3

cool,wet hands.  way to go.

yes, i've been bit several times.

for 2 years i worked testing fans.

we had extension cords with alligator clips all over.

to attach to motors to turn the fans.

several times i grabbed the wrong thing.

an woke up fairly quickly.

touched 220 one time.

learned really quickly to be more careful.

we also had 440, which i didn't play with.

but all of us were religiously careful when using that.

these days, when i work on switches or light fixtures, i rarely turn the electricity off.

i just be careful not to touch the wrong thing.

it's been quite a while since the last time i got bit.

but i know that, unless i'm really stupid about it, (or don't realize) it won't be a bad shock.

i presume that you'll be more careful drying your hands in the future.

btw, unless you reached inside, you shouldn't have gotten a shock.

there is a problem with the toaster.

if i had to guess, it's old, from before the time there were polarized plugs,

today, with a new toaster, that wouldn't happen.

i remember an electrician that worked on my dad's house.

went down to the electrical panel, and put his thumb and finger across the contacts.

"ah, 110.  110.  oh, that one's 220"

had a bit of a problem, licked his finger to get a better contact.

old guy with leathery hands.

i'm not there yet.

there are a couple of things for you to realize:

-- having wet hands is not good.

-- there really is probably a problem with the toaster -- you should not get a shock from the outside.

-- (and if you put your wet hands inside to pick it up, you might rethink the wisdom of that move.)

-- normally electric shocks wake you up, but don't produce lasting damage.  if you get over the original reaction, it'll make it easier for you next time.  yes, you'll jump.  but it's more about surprise than real pain.

Answer 4

I was actually shocked by a toaster once as a kid.  The plastic piece that covers the thing you push down was missing.  Like an idiot I grabbed the metal and pushed it down with my bare fingers and it shocked the you know what outta me.  I also got shocked by a water heater once....and I'm lucky that didnt kill me!

Answer 5

I had one about 20 mins ago whilst fidling with the back of my tv

Answer 6

yeah, i ALWAYS walk straight into electric fences.

hurts alot.

Answer 7

Yes, many times! I grew up with electricity, my grandad was an electrical engineer, with a 'robust' attitude to health and safety. I don't think I saw a three-point plug before I was ten - he just used to jam the wires into the socket with matchsticks!

Answer 8

yes when its over with and you can laugh about it .It always seems to be worst at your elbow dunnit i once drilled into the wall lights and singed the hair on my arms it scared me at first but its funny now and my mates where with me that night and its fetched up quite a lot

Answer 9

Yes, accidentally, it's kind of an occupational hazard for electricians, but I do know better than to stick my fingers inside a toaster that's still plugged in.

Answer 10

when i was little i tuned the bar on a one bar electric fire with my hand thinking it was turned off but it wasn't it was broken!!!!! i got a massive shock and still have the burn marks on my hand my sister thought it was funny and i was just fooling about i hid my burned hand 4 weeks the shock was so severe it thew me across the room

Answer 11

yep, the last one i got was trying to move a fellow diver off the electric wire at the local penguin enclosure.

The shock went through him and zapped me!

If you didn't go into cardiac shock or black out immediately then you should be fine.

If you've got a pacemaker, go to A&E

Answer 12

yeah, i went for a run and for a laugh my friend pushed me on to a cattle fence and got 2 shocks before i managed 2 get back up, funny though, but very painful

Answer 13

Quite a few

Answer 14

Yes, quite a few times actually.

When i was a child, i stuck a radio lead in my mouth while it was switched on.

As a teenager, there was an electric radiator in our sixth form common room.  The louvres at the front had been twisted off and i saw an electrode inside.  I absently wondered if there was a current flowing through it, stuck my hand in and was thrown across the room.

Our washing machine, and this is supposedly impossible, gives me mild electric shocks on a regular basis.  Consequently i never touch it directly but turn it on at the wall with a stick.

Answer 15

Yes I have when I was working on my daughters she turned the ignition on.

Answer 16

yes and it was 240w schock hurt like h**l for hours.

Answer 17

All the time!

I've fallen into an electric fence as a kid, but recently, I've noticed that I appear to be a better conductor to electricity than most people....

I get zapped from EVERYTHING.. especially in the winter.

My usual routine involves touching things like doorknobs, car doors and any and all metal objects with a sleeve over my hand or using my foot instead..

I've seen blue sparks arching over to my fingers from random objects more times than I can remember.

When I walk into my bosses' office in the winter and touch his desk, his monitor shuts off and back on. When our internet radio stalls, I just have to walk into its vicinity to turn it back on. I ask strangers to get canned goods out of the shelves in the supermarket because I just have to get within an inch of the shelf for an arch of static to connect with my fingers...

IT SUCKS!!!

Just the other day, I went to use my laptop and a blue spark shot from my fingers into the touch pad and turned the machine off.

I try to stay well clear of anything involving real electricity, since I'm pretty convinced at this point that it'll find its way to me somehow.

Electricity and me... not friends ;)

Answer 18

I plugged in a 220 volt welder and the cables shorted out in my hands making my fingers look like burnt hot dogs over an open fire . They turned black swollen and popped open just like a hot dog does . Talk about pain . I past out twice on the way to the hospital . They all still work and not much scars but it sure made me think about plugging things in

Answer 19

then the toaster is faulty and you shoudnt use it again toasters are  designed that you can touch or pick them up with wet hands but never emerge them in water dont use it ask santa for a new one

Answer 20

yeah after cleaning out the fish tank the light would not go off i stupidly messed with the switch wow what a whack i got! all my wife said was i`m glad the fish were not in the tank you could have killed them

Answer 21

touched the h.t lead on an engine when it was running .Painful ouch.

Answer 22

Yes,I had once, its terrible.

Answer 23

Almost every day in the winter time.