What's the most dumbed bottom thing you've ever done, Electric wise?

[Silly Sausage]

For me, back in the 80s, flat mate was a tube driver, we get back to our home station, Borough, he says 'When there's no train in the station, the power rails are dead, I've already done it elsewhere, go and and sit on the middle rail and touch the outer 4th rail'

Me being an idiot does this and gets an interesting zap...

 

[Phil]

i was about 14 and was fed up of people coming round so i wired up the door handle! stupid thing was I forgot i had done it until idiot here opened the door himself :rolleyes4: and yes that arm hurt for days.

 

[trev]

There was a light in the garage. Does it count now?

 

[The Ranger]

2 things in life spring to mind

I was in my early 20's got a second year apprentice we used to do loads of boiler house control installs, so there I was with a some 1 mm singles terminating away 0V! controls I let the lad terminate the panel i decided stupidly to hold one of the singles in-between my lips to free up a hand next thing I gets plated in me mouth! the silly ****** terminated it in the wrong side of the panel! needless to say I never put a single thing near my lips

6 years or so a go I was working at T5 I was working on whats called the life safety system which was wired in MICC so we're there making of the ends and testing away the made off legs were quite long perhaps a meter so we've made off both ends test away the ******** was down the whole lot drip it re make it still down so we strip and re make it again still down it took me hours to realise that the made off end was sitting on a concrete floor that is conducting the bloody insulation resistance test across the cores!!

 

[TPES]

Last day of a rewire today... Yesterday I had an accident! Typical!

 

[DaveyD]

There was a light in the garage. Does it count now?

Whatever turns you on I guess..

 

[DaveyD]

Last day of a rewire today... Yesterday I had an accident! Typical!

Ouch! Are you a lady now?

 

[trev]

Whatever turns you on I guess..

It was jonnyboy who said it didn't count unless electrickery was involved hence my comment about there being a light in the garage

 

[DaveyD]

It was jonnyboy who said it didn't count unless electrickery was involved hence my comment about there being a light in the garage

Yep, I got it. "Whatever turns you on" get it ....

 

[5544]

mine was when i was 12. had a lesson at school about magnets. came straight home, disconnected my bedroom light, wrapped the wire around a piece of metal bar, and switched on the light. it became very emotional very quickly.

 

[TPES]

Ouch! Are you a lady now?

I'm not too bad, banged my shoulder as I landed on the beam, there was 3 layers of insulation, was easy to slip. Just added expense onto the job I can't really afford, no money in the job as it is

 

[gooner1984]

For me, back in the 80s, flat mate was a tube driver, we get back to our home station, Borough, he says 'When there's no train in the station, the power rails are dead, I've already done it elsewhere, go and and sit on the middle rail and touch the outer 4th rail'

Me being an idiot does this and gets an interesting zap...

750volts surprised your still alive

 

[Phil]

. it became very emotional very quickly.

love it

 

[DaveyD]

I'm not too bad, banged my shoulder as I landed on the beam, there was 3 layers of insulation, was easy to slip. Just added expense onto the job I can't really afford, no money in the job as it is

Always the way. Sorry to hear that. Careful with that shoulder.

 

[mhar]

Was educated when selection was the norm. Some of my friends who went to the secondary modern had to walk to school as it was within 3 miles of where we lived. The quickest way was across fields. One day an electric fence appeared. Being 13/14 year olds at first the dare was just to touch the fence but this progressed. One of my friends put his old man on the fence and spent the whole day at school walking around with a stiffy that just wouldn't go away!

 

[lloyd1980]

The old housebashing firm I used to work for;
The miserable old confused git who ran it, tells me and my mate, have we experience in taking off radiators and heating pipes as the lady is having storage heating put in.
We tell him we'd drain the system and remove the rads and pipes.
3rd day into the rewire we drain the system remove the tank and rads and pipework.
on the 5th day the miserable git rings us and tells us hes just picked up a timeclock hes got for the water tank, 'Ive spoken to her and shes really looking forward to having this timeclock'
We look at each other in disbeleif.
Back at the yard, the miserable git (he resembled Yoda from star wars ) is pushing about this timeclock for the tank,
We break the news........
The old git had mixed up the jobs when he had told us about the storage heating and we had ripped out a perfectly good tank and radiator system, in fact it was another job seperate from the rewire that was geting storage heating.

What happened next was THE funniest thing I have ever seen and will always remember it
He starts by throwing his hands up in the air shouting NOT THE TANK..... NOT THE TANK
My mate who somehow has managed to keep a straight face tells him he told us to remove the tank and the rads after draining the system.
hes by now turned bright red
(like a little grumpy red yoda) and is thumping his fists on the desk and stanping his feet whilst his combover is flapping from side to side
at this moment I have turned my back and tears of laughter are rolling down my cheeks and my shoulders were moving up and down rapidly as I uncontrollably laughed.
in the end he realised he had cocked up and couldnt blame us if he tried to,
this happened years ago and even to this day, and right now Im laughing to myself about that.
when I now meet my mate, all we have to say is NOT THE TANK NOT THE TANK to each other and it causes fits of laughter
I miss the fun I used to have back then. hapy days lol