A word of warning...

[Boss Hog]

Electricity, it's f**king dangerous stuff and I'm stupid.

I dont normally mess around with it but yesterday I mistook bravery for stupidity and thought it cant be that difficult to fix the faulty fan on my electric oven.
I didnt turn the power off as I needed to have the oven on to confirm that it was indeed the fan that was sticking.
All I needed to do was give it a squirt of WD40 and away you go, the problem was there was just a letterbox size section on top of the oven thats mounted on the wall where all wiring was to get to the fan at the back. Thats when the alarm bells should have rang.
So with a can of WD40 in my hand I thrust it into the oven hood when I am not quite sure what happened next. I had just released a couple of squirts when I either touched something with the can I was holding or my arm.
What ensued was something that resembled breakdancing for a few seconds but felt like hours I managed to get my arm free. Not sure if the marks up my arm are from the electricity or if I caught it on something as I yanked my arm out.

All I can saw was it gave me a one hell of a stiffy, I can only sumise that as I was wearing rubber sole slippers at the time the family jewels where the nearest point to ground and it chose that route. The wife was quite impressed with the results and had asked me to stick my arm in the oven again this Saturday and twice on Wednesdays.
I've always been wary of electrics as it's one of those things you cant see. This has just reinforced it for me.

[cj121]

Foookin 'ell Mark, you were lucky there: by the sound of it the old 'invisible killer' had a fair grip on you

Glad to hear you're ok.

[jdawg]

thats shocking to hear, Boss!

glad your alright!

Although, it would have been funny to see. LOL

[Lee Nub]

Bloody hell Mark, close call huh. I did something similar years ago, I had something plugged in an extension lead that wasn't working. I knew the device was fine so took the cover of the socket end of the lead. The live wire had come out of its clip, so without thinking I grabbed it to put it back it. Like a tool I had left it plugged in, and for a few seconds I thought I was having a heart attack

We live and learn huh

[tippexx]

Bloody 'ell Boss, I know some blokes don't like the cost o' Viagra, but that's takin' the Scroogy thing just a bit too far innit?

Glad to hear you're alright though!

[eggopp]

Boss.. im really glad your safe, and i apologise for reading your thread and rolling about laughing, im a sad git you see and take pleasure from other peoples 'mistakes'

However you are not alone, a couple of years ago i removed a light fitting (but the electrics were off) removed the unwanted fitting, taped up the unwanted wires and shoved them back in the roof. Pleased with myself i promptly switched the electrics back on and Bang... all the fuses went..

Subsequently i was without electricty for 4 days and had to pay a fortune for an electrician to make good the repair..

I couldnt remember what wire went where and made the assumotion i would just tape all the reds together, all the browns and greens, and hang on a minutes, why is there a black wire on its own?? a quick look on the internet, and it said some reds are black and vice versa, and so as you see, i too wont be messing with electrics again!

[celsis]

Glad to hear you're ok. I had a similar fright when I lived in Germany.

We had a blown light socket in the living room and I asked Gabi to turn off the main switch while I fixed it. I took the brass cover off to expose the wiring and could see that a cable had burnt out. As i put my screwdriver in to loosen the cable, there was a god awful bang and I was thrown off the ladder onto the settee! I sat there shaking for about 20 minutes.

She had turned off the wrong box!

[Kdot]

you'll be fine boss, had it happen to me twice and strangely makes you feel like a big man if you're alive at the end of it

[rokkitsci]

Gadzooks!

All I can saw was it gave me a one hell of a stiffy

OMFG! I hate using that Viagra stuff; the llamas always get restless whenever I do. But if a jolt'll raise the ol' flagpole, I figure it's worth the pain for the gain. Will have to try it this weekend after the wife falls asleep. I'll let you know how it works.

[Deano]

Geez mate, glad you're alright and seeing the funny side of things.

[skyhigh]

well you're obviously ok to be posting on here and you're still a numpty but feck me how i laughed

[satch]

I had to fix a machine at work a few years ago. The lad switched it off at the (440v) mains. I got there and another lad, thinking it was on,turned it off (but back on, really). I got into the wiring and suddenly found myself upside down on the feed-in of a log shredding machine about 6 metres away.
I've always made a point of switching machines off myself since then.

[kingcohiba]

been there done that! lucky to have not got hurt boss! i got 480 volts when i was at work trying to play a joke on a guy. turned out the joke was on me! my nickname after that was sparky!

i did get a laugh too while reading your story. i always get a laugh reading your stories!

[68TriShield]

Holy hell! Did it make ya hair stand up too?

Glad you're still with us Brother

[Habana-Habanos]

I seriously couldn't stop laughing for about 6 minutes on the stiffy comment.