On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 01:46:37 +0000, Ian Molton wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 01:38:03 +0000
G.Snail wrote:

I recall prodding about in a live monitor with a wooden spoon. That
was pretty ****ing stupid. The best one was when I electrocuted myself
by pushing a mains plug into a socket with a finger trapped underneath

that shouldnt be possible with a nice UK plug. perhaps you had one of
those older dodgy ones with no insulation at the base of the pins?

Fun game we used to play in the old days at Marconi was to wrap some
fuse wire across the live and neutral pins of one of those old
'full-length' plugs attached to a piece of kit being used by someone
who'd gone home, then push the plug back into the socket and wait
until the next morning..............

Not me of course, you understand, some of my colleagues...... :-)

On the 'Darwin Award' subject, one of the funniest things I ever saw
(once we'd checked that he was OK) was a guy who was kneeling at the
back of an equipment cabinet with the door open, leaning inside to
check some capacitor voltage levels. His hand slipped and touched one
of the live cap terminals, which threw him back until his head hit the
top of the door opening, which threw him forward onto the caps, which
threw him backwards..... you get the picture, about four iterations
before he missed the doorframe and fell back onto the floor.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering