Happy Halloween Prank Goes Wrong – IOTW Report

Happy Halloween Prank Goes Wrong

Sunday, 31 October 2021, 9:50 BFH Uncategorized 15

… or does it?

15 Comments on Happy Halloween Prank Goes Wrong

  2. Reminds me of the one where the guy is working on an electrical outlet and his helpers eating a banana and he acts like he’s being electrocuted. Funny but it’ll give ya a heart attack.

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  6. Dry gulched
    OCTOBER 31, 2021 AT 10:10 AM
    “Reminds me of the one where the guy is working on an electrical outlet and his helpers eating a banana and he acts like he’s being electrocuted. Funny but it’ll give ya a heart attack.”

    I took that to another level once. A guy I was working with was reaching into a locked-out 480v cabinet while I and some other guys watched. I was closest to him, and this was back in the pre-cell phone days when we had vibrating pagers, so I set mine off in TEST mode and touched his arm that was touching the outside of the cabinet just as he made contact inside.

    He jumped straight back to the side like a cat squirted with water. I didn’t know the fat old guy had it in him.

    Everyone else saw what I did and thought it was funny as hell.

    HE didn’t…

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  8. LocoBlancoSaltine
    OCTOBER 31, 2021 AT 11:15 AM
    “SNS, gotta say that was a TOTAL DICK move my man!”

    I 100% agree. I had just started and was young, and I was a total dick, so it was kind of in character. I was faster on my feet than him, tho, so we didn’t get in the punch-up I deserved that would have got us both fired. I DID have a nice talk withy boss tho, and a pretty public apology.

    But times change.

    Now I AM the fat old man. Go figure.

    …funny how Time makes fools of us all…

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  9. SNS, I know. I’ve done so many dumb things growing up.
    Wonder I survived being a jerk myself.

    Having been legitimately zapped with electricity I am ultra sensitive about that though.

    I was never a big prank guy and I can’t watch those type of shows.
    Something about innocent people minding their own business?

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  10. @Supernightshade: That’s great. Once I was in a 480 volt chiller distribution cabinet measuring voltage. As soon as I touched the probes to the conductor bar a fluorescent light overhead flashed. Man I thought a fireball got me. My safety man wasn’t any help to me for a while cause he was laughing so hard. Good times.

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  13. Once I was throwing the main breaker (110? 220?) on an empty Quonset on Ft Huachuca. The fellow NCO that was with me, clapped his hand on my shoulder just as the breaker “threw”. I about jumped out of my skin, and almost popped him at the same time.

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  14. Crabcakes
    OCTOBER 31, 2021 AT 3:05 PM
    “ever been hit by 277?
    it sure as hell ain’t funny”

    Indeed, and the Karma police caught up to me one day when I got toasted when I found a whisker the hard way on one phase of a 480 to a motor starter. It was kind enough to push me off and too little a contact to do much physical damage, but long story short, I ended the afternoon up the road at the ER with docs puzzling over an arrhythmia they thought looked like a bundle branch block and analyzing enzymes to decide if I’d cooked part of my heart.

    It ended up being stuff I recovered from (obviously), but like I said, when I pranked the guy I was new, but with experience comes really sharp lessons like THIS, so it’s not a thing I would do NOW.

    FWIW, I ended up being freinds with that guy until he retired and moved to deepest darkest Indiana, so I learned how to mend fences too.

    Thing is, I SHOULD have known better. I quit running fire/EMS to work this job, but I’d seen some DANDY demonstrations of the power of the volt along the way, including some really tragic stuff. One that sticks out for sheer nasty was a guy who was part of a construction company pouring concrete for a new mall, back when folks built new malls. Not ususally something you’d associate with electrical injures, but this was a LARGE pour and outdoors, so they were using a crane and a ginormous bucket to get from the truck to the pour.

    The guy in question was basically standing in wet concrete, and put his hands on the bucket to give it some terminal guidance.

    “Terminal” being the operative word when the crane boom intersected a 70,000 volt transmission line.

    Didn’t do a lot of obvious stuff. Knocked his helmet off, blew quarter sized holes in his hands, and dime sized holes in his feet out his boots. He wasn’t even technically dead when we got there, but he had a pretty bizarre rhythm.

    We worked him a bit and bagged and dragged to the hospital, and they worked him hard too, then flew him to a BIGGER hospital where they worked him some more. He was a young kid and no one wanted to admit the obvious.

    He was fried inside in every major organ like he’d been microwaved, and his brains were pudding. They futzed a couple more days,then the fam pulled the plug.

    I was a great compartmentalizer though,as a defense mechanism to keep from getting overwhelmed,but it also insulated me from empathetic lessons I SHOULD have learned.

    I wasn’t even a Christian then, so I didn’t have a lot of brakes on assholiness.

    So as I said, God taught me a sharper lesson. And the burned hand teaches best, after that advice about fire goes right to the heart…

  15. Crabcakes
    OCTOBER 31, 2021 AT 3:05 PM

    We also had a guy at work get ahold of some 120. I didn’t see this one, but sure heard about it later. There was a switch in a washdown room that didn’t seem to be working, so he went in to investigate. He went over and wrapped his hand around the bare, industrial stainless conduit (wash down room) and stopped talking and pretty much anything but vibrating.

    Seems the problem with the conduit was it filled with water, and it wasn’t ground fault protected so the conduit itself became energized, but the nonmetallic wall did not. So when he wrapped his hand on it, he couldn’t let go. He evidently never lost consciousness or stopped breathing ot anything, probably was far enough down the resistance ladder to not get the full treatment, but he couldn’t do a thing until someone hit the breaker.

    By the grace of God he wasn’t seriously or permanently injured, although he wasn’t a ball of fire in the brains department to begin with so it was a little hard to tell, but because of the way it held onto him someone nicknamed him “Buzz” and that stuck with him until he left the Company.

    He never got mad about it, he actually seemed to like it, but like I said, he wasn’t exactly a genius…

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