Now that's Funny! I'm sending it to our SM's
Speaking of shocks... this one is none theatrical. I was tuning a freinds Bug < a cherry '74 super beetle> , he had been doing some work and had screwed up the idle to the point that it was idlling at about 2500 rpm. So I grabbed my really long thin screwdriver, hunkered down on the left side of the engine,sort of leaned forward and placed my forehead up against the engine cover so I could see the fast mass air flow screw. Then holding the screw driver by the shaft I shoved it into the side of the carb. unfortunately on a 74 super beetle the ignition coil is mounted up side down right right next to the carb. When I accidently hit it the shock ran up my arm accross my shoulder and out through my forehead, 4 cylinders 2500 rpm, and it probably took a whole second before I could let go. You do the math and figure how 100,000 volt shocks I took through my brain.
I have to admit a few minutes I started feeling real relaxed and happy.
I've had two zaps I can recall:
One was a few years ago on a production of Guys and Dolls, and was completely my fault. We had built these two lamp posts, but, being as I was head of multiple projects, I was not the one who wired them. Well, one night after a rehearsal, one of them stopped working. I took it apart to see that the wires had been spliced with DUCT TAPE. They weren't even twisted together, just taped together. I proceed to rewire, and then get a nice tingle. It was that day I learned that putting a dimmer at zero does not always take out all the voltage, and also to ALWAYS make sure things are uplugged.
I learned that one by popping three fuses in a row in a crap-tastic lightronics dimmer pack. That was fun...and that was the same day that I got zapped by a PAR38 lamp base, which was attached to the lightronics dimmer pack.learned that one the hard way too, up on ladder and then I went to change a lamp and low and behold, ZAP! then I thought that the guy had put it up on purpose and then he told me that it was all the way down.
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