Couldnt i die if i touched one of them damn wires up underneath the house?

[240 is Back]

when i was a kid, I plugged in something next to my bed.  The plug was only halfway into the wall, and my finger touched one of the exposed pegs.

I still remember to this day, exactly how much it hurt.  My arm was all flopping around.  It was like being punched and stabbed and kicked in that arm all at once. 

25 or 30 years later, I still lecture kids nonstop on electric plugs.  I literally thought my arm was gonna fly off.

[Novena]

Couldnt i die if i touched one of them damn wires up underneath the house?

Yes.

[Ropo]

Yep, and it doesn't take very many milliamps to kill you either..

Always use a safe limit of approach when dealing with that shit, or better yet, hire an electrician!

Fixed that for you. 100mA is enough to kill an adult man. You have something like 16A fuses in your home fusebox, and in the main line there is lot bigger fuses, meaning that if you get electrocuted, fuse doesn't go off before you are extra crispy. What will happen is something like this:http://www.thepadrino.com/2012/02/copper-thieves-electrocuted-trying-to.html

[Lustral]

Always reminds me of my girlfriend's orgasms.

[Hulkotron]

Always reminds me of my girlfriend's orgasms.

It reminds me of them too

[Lustral]

It reminds me of them too

 

I left an open goal there.

[dr.chimps]

'Yeah, 220, 221...whatever it takes.'   

[Mick33]

You should really look into a different line of work.

[LittleJ]

Falcon it won't hurt that bad.

[Novena]

Fixed that for you. 100mA is enough to kill an adult man. You have something like 16A fuses in your home fusebox, and in the main line there is lot bigger fuses, meaning that if you get electrocuted, fuse doesn't go off before you are extra crispy. What will happen is something like this:http://www.thepadrino.com/2012/02/copper-thieves-electrocuted-trying-to.html

you are thinking of Ground Fault Interrupters.

[thebrink]

Fixed that for you. 100mA is enough to kill an adult man. You have something like 16A fuses in your home fusebox, and in the main line there is lot bigger fuses, meaning that if you get electrocuted, fuse doesn't go off before you are extra crispy. What will happen is something like this:http://www.thepadrino.com/2012/02/copper-thieves-electrocuted-trying-to.html

I think you would be long dead before the GFI would engage no..?

And those poor hebrews  , amazing the one guy managed to get a nose bleed at some point during that destruction...

[Icelord]

I think you would be long dead before the GFI would engage no..?

And those poor hebrews  , amazing the one guy managed to get a nose bleed at some point during that destruction...

The force causes thinner blood vessels to explode.

[Marty Champions]

Fixed that for you. 100mA is enough to kill an adult man. You have something like 16A fuses in your home fusebox, and in the main line there is lot bigger fuses, meaning that if you get electrocuted, fuse doesn't go off before you are extra crispy. What will happen is something like this:http://www.thepadrino.com/2012/02/copper-thieves-electrocuted-trying-to.html

holy shit my niggga that aint good

[Novena]

I think you would be long dead before the GFI would engage no..?

No.  The response time is so fast, no.

[Kim Jong Bob]

120 volt can kill you for sure. Depending on how well you can conduct a path to ground. Its not the volts that kill its the amps. Look at it this way, ill use a liquid analogy for electricity. Volts is pressure, amps is flow

dude know i get  the difference, thanks for that

[Tapeworm]

Can get killed walkin your doggie.

[Teutonic Knight]

Employ Leopold as electrician, he is fucked anyway !.