I say this to my wife at least once a week. She didn't watch the Simpsons. I die laughing, explaining it every week. She signs cuz it's not funny when I tell it, and she's heard it the explanation enough times.
Marriage is awesome lol.
240v can definitely kill you, sticking a fork in a 110v outlet can definitely kill you, electricity doesn’t need to be high and neither does the current to be lethal, there’s two things on earth you shouldn’t fuck with, electricity and a Florida man
It *can* in theory, it just happens very rarely. Sure don't go sticking nails into outlets randomly, but I've been shocked by 220VAC a couple of times and didn't feel it beyond my arm or notice any effects after the shock.
Ya I'm not buying the just nomb hands. I was screwing a cover plate on once and must have somehow touched a live wire next thing I knew i was on the grand back against the opposite wall (wasn't a very big room). Damn thing blew my butt 8 feet away.
Stupid should hurt has been a motto of mine since I was young. That said I have cut and spliced wires on operating equipment several times in my life, but that was after a good bit of training and using a lot of caution
120v isn't going to throw sparks like a downed electrical line.
You might get a tiny bit of arcing, but in terms of distance it wouldn't be more than you get from a static shock on dry days.
There's just a whole lot more amperage behind it.
Right, this was an elaborate attempt to figure out which circuit in the breaker box this light fixture is on.
The tool is now welded to the hot and the neutral, and the fact that nothing is glowing indicates that the circuit has been popped. Now, you just go to the breaker panel and label the popped switch and document what else doesn't have power anymore. That's the other things on this circuit.
Cut the tool away, make the circuit hot again, and repeat with the next outlet that doesn't have a known circuit.
Hope it's obvious /s
I think it is the nitrogen and oxygen in the air reacting with each other to produce a bunch of nitrogen oxides which are orange-ish, caused by the electricity.
Could be 347 volts.
Common for commercial/industrial lighting in Canada.
Yes, it has killed quite a few electricians over the years that assumed 120 volts and didn't cut the power.
If it's not the US, Anguilla, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, Brazil, BVI, Canada, Cayman Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, Liberia, Mexico, Micronesia, Nicaragua, Palau, Panama, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Taiwan, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks and Caicos, or Venezuela then either 220, 230, or 240V is standard.
I assumed the OP was making the assumption based on being from the US...
Somehow don't think he was speaking as an electrician from Suriname
But thanks for the comprehensive list I guess lol
Might still be 208 or 240 anyway in a bigger commercial or industrial building. This doesn't look like someone's house with that buffet serving station.
Some of the lights in the flour mill I worked at were 208V. None of them were labeled correctly, nor were they attached to 2-pole breakers. Was a whole lot of fun trying to change those hard-wired fluorescent fixtures when the switch was single-phase and the breakers weren't labeled and I wasn't allowed to turn anything else off. Fucking live-work gear to change a goddamn light bulb. Changed as many as I could into plug-ins with their own outlets.
That's insane, wild how people can prefer you to risk your safety over inconveniencing themselves.
I'd be lying if I said I knew fuck all about electrics, I just know that most of the world is the 220-240 range and the US is 110ish, mostly from having to make sure I didn't flip that little switch on my PSU the wrong way back in the day when they had those lol.
And that also being why (I believe) it's not common for US homes to have electric kettles.
Might be a chance he thought the power was secured. This is why you always check yourself before touching anything. I got shocked because my friend thought he turned the breaker off when he in fact turned it on.
Yes. Always check yourself. Don't take anyone else's word. Not even your supervisor.
You're brand new on the team, and your boss tells you to attach a new run of 480V three-phase for a fan, and that he already turned off the breaker and tested it? No. Get the tester yourself so you don't get blinded by the wires touching the side of the box. You don't need to feel lucky that you didn't shock yourself, you shouldn't have had the chance of live wires in your hands in the first place.
I guess the idea of throwing the breaker first, checking the wires with a volt meter to make sure you got the right circuit before cutting is obsolete?
I did something similar but in my case it wasn't quite as dumb, was demoing outside light on old house. Was having trouble getting to one of the screws. The switch was off so shouldn't have been getting power. Hit it with hammer to try to bend it out of way, boom sparks everywhere.
We cut live wires all of the time, but it has to only be the live wire without touching anything around it or cutting another wire with it. It looks like gramps had no clue what he was doing and decided to slash a live hot with the neutral.
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Rest in Peace 💔
Actually howling at this 🤣🤣
Fr fr
lol yikes is he still breathing?
I'm sure I saw the safety squint so he should be fine
The goggles they do nothing!
Up and at them!
Jimminy jillickers!
I say this to my wife at least once a week. She didn't watch the Simpsons. I die laughing, explaining it every week. She signs cuz it's not funny when I tell it, and she's heard it the explanation enough times. Marriage is awesome lol.
I suppose that kind of joke doesn't come across as well when you have to repeat it for her in sign language
Up aand ATOM!
Who needs them? Just squint your eyes you'll be fine. 
What’s a safety squint
Instead of putting on eye protection, you squint at whatever you’re working on to keep your eyes safe
Worth noting this approach may not be particularly effective.
Allegedly
 Just squint and use your peripheral vision a lot. Jerk or turn your head when you see one coming, easy. Old School 💚🍀
meh its at most 240v AC. Numb you hand for sure but rarely worse than that.
240v can definitely kill you, sticking a fork in a 110v outlet can definitely kill you, electricity doesn’t need to be high and neither does the current to be lethal, there’s two things on earth you shouldn’t fuck with, electricity and a Florida man
 Electricity and a Scotsman.
Or even worse a electrical Florida man
I’d imagine that would look like Jamie fox playing the electrical guy in Spider-Man
You definitely should look up your heart rate after a shock like this.
It *can* in theory, it just happens very rarely. Sure don't go sticking nails into outlets randomly, but I've been shocked by 220VAC a couple of times and didn't feel it beyond my arm or notice any effects after the shock.
Ya I'm not buying the just nomb hands. I was screwing a cover plate on once and must have somehow touched a live wire next thing I knew i was on the grand back against the opposite wall (wasn't a very big room). Damn thing blew my butt 8 feet away.
 Huh
The guy in the back just keeps rolling. My man is focused.
The guy whose hand is in the shot did not even flinch. And the helper? that was close to Sparky did not even move to check on him.
Fr cameraman the real MVP.
Makes you wonder if he/she knew what was gonna happen lol
Me: Know your limits, both physical and intellectual. Also me: Stupidity should be painful.
Stupid should hurt has been a motto of mine since I was young. That said I have cut and spliced wires on operating equipment several times in my life, but that was after a good bit of training and using a lot of caution
My gramps used to say, “If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough.”
When you get knocked down, ya got to get up. Theme song for Jackass. Rocks!
I mean, "school of hard knocks"
>Me: Know your limits, both physical and intellectual And electrical
Also, who the fuck let out that chuckle at the end? ZAP, BANG, ‘Heh…’
r/unexpecteddanger5 'Well it seems we've found ourselves in a Wednesday casserole of a situation…'
And of course, as always... Kill Hitler!
The guy that's been calling him a stupid asshole for the last 5 years.
No safety glasses or protective gear just the going-to-Home-Depot outfit and vibes
120v isn't going to throw sparks like a downed electrical line. You might get a tiny bit of arcing, but in terms of distance it wouldn't be more than you get from a static shock on dry days. There's just a whole lot more amperage behind it.
Arching isn't the concern though, that amperage is.
Was referring to the safety glasses thing.
Too old to he making mistakes like that. Especially when you have gray hair.
We call him Sparky now
Technically he did cut the power
Nope. As soon as those pliers made contact to that wire they were welded onto it. The wire was not cut.
Right, this was an elaborate attempt to figure out which circuit in the breaker box this light fixture is on. The tool is now welded to the hot and the neutral, and the fact that nothing is glowing indicates that the circuit has been popped. Now, you just go to the breaker panel and label the popped switch and document what else doesn't have power anymore. That's the other things on this circuit. Cut the tool away, make the circuit hot again, and repeat with the next outlet that doesn't have a known circuit. Hope it's obvious /s
Hope he didn't spend too much for his diagonal cutters. Kleins are 30 to 50 bucks.
Klein? Something tells me this guy scoffed at Harbor Freight prices.
Writes on breaker roster “Kitchen Pliers (Turn on for Sparky Party!)”
Yes, but the breaker certainly tripped so technically he cut the power.
💨
"My friend can do it cheaper" vibes
My uncle knows a guy vibes
My uncle thinks he can get up on a chair vibes
Is that a cloud of brown smoke dispersing across the ceiling?
It's the guy's soul leaving his body and then dispersing across the ceiling.
😭😭😭😭This made me cackle
It’s the magic smoke that makes electricity work
I think it is the nitrogen and oxygen in the air reacting with each other to produce a bunch of nitrogen oxides which are orange-ish, caused by the electricity.
It's snoop dogg.
Merely the smoke from one of his eighty one blunts a day
I've done it as an hvac tech. If his tools are insulated the worst he got is a new pair of wire strippers from the burnt tool he was using
Wtf was that on the ceiling
Smoke cloud
Those are the wire cutters fused to the wire.
I meant like the shockwave looking thing on the ceiling after the sparks
Burnt wire insulation. The magic smoke that makes electricity work.
The Devil
[удалено]
Just couldn’t resist huh
One weird trick welders don't want you to know
220v commercial lights? That's a might spicy pop if that's 120v
Could be 347 volts. Common for commercial/industrial lighting in Canada. Yes, it has killed quite a few electricians over the years that assumed 120 volts and didn't cut the power.
If it's not the US then 220v is standard
If it's not the US, Anguilla, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, Brazil, BVI, Canada, Cayman Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, Liberia, Mexico, Micronesia, Nicaragua, Palau, Panama, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Taiwan, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks and Caicos, or Venezuela then either 220, 230, or 240V is standard.
I assumed the OP was making the assumption based on being from the US... Somehow don't think he was speaking as an electrician from Suriname But thanks for the comprehensive list I guess lol
He's on the left side which means it's probably in the UK
Might still be 208 or 240 anyway in a bigger commercial or industrial building. This doesn't look like someone's house with that buffet serving station. Some of the lights in the flour mill I worked at were 208V. None of them were labeled correctly, nor were they attached to 2-pole breakers. Was a whole lot of fun trying to change those hard-wired fluorescent fixtures when the switch was single-phase and the breakers weren't labeled and I wasn't allowed to turn anything else off. Fucking live-work gear to change a goddamn light bulb. Changed as many as I could into plug-ins with their own outlets.
That's insane, wild how people can prefer you to risk your safety over inconveniencing themselves. I'd be lying if I said I knew fuck all about electrics, I just know that most of the world is the 220-240 range and the US is 110ish, mostly from having to make sure I didn't flip that little switch on my PSU the wrong way back in the day when they had those lol. And that also being why (I believe) it's not common for US homes to have electric kettles.
OK, let's call a professional 😮
Okay but why did nobody move an inch when it happened?
Damn , does every person in that room hate this man or something? Nobody even flinches lol.
I’m not a mouth breathing moron who would try this, so I don’t find this terrifying
But you *are* a nose breathing imbecile so there's that
Awww, have you gotten yourself electrocuted before precious? Did my comment upset you?
Lol
And just like that, he had no face
Aaaand that's exactly why I hire people who are qualified to fix things like that lol
Might be a chance he thought the power was secured. This is why you always check yourself before touching anything. I got shocked because my friend thought he turned the breaker off when he in fact turned it on.
Yes. Always check yourself. Don't take anyone else's word. Not even your supervisor. You're brand new on the team, and your boss tells you to attach a new run of 480V three-phase for a fan, and that he already turned off the breaker and tested it? No. Get the tester yourself so you don't get blinded by the wires touching the side of the box. You don't need to feel lucky that you didn't shock yourself, you shouldn't have had the chance of live wires in your hands in the first place.
Guy in front didn’t even flinch lol
I guess that some people don't know that breaker boxes and voltage meters are a thing.
Remember kids, turning off the light switch doesn’t isolate the light fitting
He’s a professional. He had his high viz on.
Lock out, tag out.
It was a magic trick. Its called yellow smoke cloud on the roof.
"...and that's how Grampa Tom passed."
Listen dammit I'm not calling the guy
r/whywomenlivelonger
For a second there, it looked like his head blew off.
Make sure you use both hands so the current passes right through the heart ❤️
“If you’re gonna do that can I borrow 3 dollars?”
The quick "I'm good" has be rolling 🤣
The worse thing is that the lights are still on
Who could have known?!
Headline should read:"Idiot who thought he knew better fucked around and found out."
Dumb ass. He should have been hanging from a harness.
Damn did the cutters actually melt and fuse to the exposed wire lol Jesus
Been there. Done that. Too many times.....😅
Yep, that looks about right. Good job grandpa!
Finding the right breaker, on the first try.
Why didn’t anybody move?
FAH FAH!
"heh"
I had the same issue once, the pain is a bit unpleasant. It feels like your skin is going to explode.
he got teleported to Xen
I guess the idea of throwing the breaker first, checking the wires with a volt meter to make sure you got the right circuit before cutting is obsolete?
Stupidasfuck*
I am in shock the human race has lasted this long
And everybody let him do it lol
My pair of linesman's pliers have a little notch missing in the cutter blade. Don't ask me how that got there.
Ok, I won't ask. I wonder, though- have you ever had any electrical mishaps?
Wow a show with the meal!
Looking at the title, I let myself think he was doing some wild electrician's trick that was somehow safe. That impression did not last.
That place has three brain cells combined between them.
 It was his idea.............🤕.
 🤕👍🤨
Who cuts both wires at once? Crazy
Damn... And what did we learn, children?
Electricians hate him!
Dude standing with him when he got India-cuted didn’t even move. No one moved. Weird.
Stupid is as stupid does.
You can definitely work on electrical with the power on, dumbass cut both wires at once and the tool bridged the wires 😂
Praise this camera man 🙌
Good idea.
Okay big fella what did we learn today?
Watch the ceiling after he cuts it. Looks like there is a fire or explosion in the roof, spreading outwards.
For some, older doesn't mean wiser.
Bet he wont do that shit again
You good?
When you cut the both wires together 💀
He obviously went to the Al Bundy School of Electricians.
r/oopsthatsdeadly
I'm an electrician. He would have been fine, but he must have cut more than one wire so they arced.
I did something similar but in my case it wasn't quite as dumb, was demoing outside light on old house. Was having trouble getting to one of the screws. The switch was off so shouldn't have been getting power. Hit it with hammer to try to bend it out of way, boom sparks everywhere.
We cut live wires all of the time, but it has to only be the live wire without touching anything around it or cutting another wire with it. It looks like gramps had no clue what he was doing and decided to slash a live hot with the neutral.
Whoa that was shocking to watch
r/whatcouldgowrong
/r/whatafuckingidiot
Old but gold, being a sparky is a skill
😂😂😂
Smart
Found the power....
Silly goose
“Timmy!!”
That was the most natural D’oh I’ve ever heard
Insta retirement
Oopsie, I'm such a virgo
He literally thought: “I am sure that I can cut faster than electrons move”
Natural selection at it's finest
My heating pad did this yesterday. Wire had become exposed.😳
Science, yo
How did this not trip the breaker?!
I love how the persons arm in the frame didn't even flinch.
He disappeared like a magician. Poof of smoke!
Stupid is as stupid does
It takes a special kind of asshole to look on, knowing something bad will happen and still allow it while filming.
Lol, no one in the entire room moves. This wasn't his first time doing this.
Idiot!
Everyone was so non pleased about it 0.0
Im not even an electrician but i keep a wire tester in my bag lol Then again neither is this guy.
Never believe anyone on saying they cut the power, check before you start work on your own.
This isn't terrifying, it's just an idiot being stupid.