Peeing On An Electric Fence | Break.com

Two lessons to take away from this video: 1) Read the signs 2)Urine IS conductive!

And what about that Mythbusters episode you saw? They revisited the episode with..um ...shocking results. http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2004/06/return_of_mythbusters.html
This wasn't a revisiting as much as it was a variation. The myth the first time around was that you could get shocked by peeing on an electrified third rail. Their slow-motion video from the first time showed that the stream breaks apart too much falling to the ground. This time around they built an electric fence with small charge, which would be closer to the person peeing. Once again, Adam volunteered as the guinea pig and peed directly onto the fence. It was only a couple seconds before he felt a little shock.

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NFPA's New Electrical Safety PSA

DETROIT: Attempted energy theft kills father

DETROIT: Attempted energy theft kills father
He was using jumper cables...wtf???

Cathandra Miller wanted to tell her husband to keep fighting, to keep breathing, to stay alive.

She begged to get in the ambulance as medics rushed him to the hospital. She asked to stand by his side as doctors tried to revive him.

But Leonard Adkins was already dead, electrocuted Monday while trying to steal electricity by using jumper cables to tap into a utility line and direct power to his soon-to-be rental home.

The unemployed couple had planned to move in a rush Labor Day weekend after being evicted from their home on Cecil Street in Detroit because they couldn't pay the rent.

"I finally got to see him when he was gone," Miller said Tuesday, sobbing on the front porch of her home, where a mattress lay in the middle of the living room and clothes were strewn across the floor.

Miller, 27, said she knows what her 37-year-old husband was doing was illegal. He was the family's sole provider, but she said he lost a job as a tow truck driver, leaving them without the money to pay rent.

Scott Simons, a Detroit Edison spokesman, said the utility is investigating the electrocution. The company loses millions of dollars each year in energy theft, he said, either by people illegally hooking up their homes or tampering with their meters.

"Not only is it extremely dangerous for the person doing it, but it's dangerous for neighbors as well," said Simons, adding that tapping into utility lines can spark fires.

Detroit police spokesman James Tate said it isn't the first time an electricity thief used jumper cables to divert power to a home, and the act has killed before.

Adkins died about 6:50 p.m. Monday. His uncle found him on the ground near a ladder, Miller said. He had burns on the right side of his chest and right forearm and was dead when he reached Detroit Receiving Hospital, authorities said.

Miller knew he planned to steal power, she said, but she thought a friend who had stolen power before would help.

Miller doesn't work because she stays home to care for the couple's three children: 15-month-old Leonard Jr., 8-year-old Tandra and 1-month-old Harvey. Adkins also has two teenage children from a previous relationship, but they did not live with the couple.

Adkins worked odd jobs, including at a steel company that went out of business, Miller said. "He wanted to be a truck driver," she said. "Now that's never going to happen."

She sobbed again.

With help from the state's Family Independence Agency, the family planned to move about three miles to Springwells. She said they didn't call DTE because they couldn't have gotten power connected on a holiday weekend.

Her husband wasn't perfect, Miller said. He served time in prison for a 1998 attempted robbery conviction. And he was killed doing something that was dangerous and illegal. That doesn't make his death any easier on his family, she said.

"He was trying to get the house fixed up before we moved," she said. "He just wanted to be with his family."

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50000 Volt Accident

Ouch. Another bad day at the office...

Tesla Coil Part 2

Ok I knew you would ask about part 2 so here it is. 1:03. Warning-video is a bit shaky.

Tesla Coil

Stunning Tesla Coil performance put up @ Singpore Science Centre..It can generate up to 3500000 Volts of electricity! 4:39

Family Guy - Peter Griffin is Electric Man

Fun w/static electricity! 1:58.

The Power of Static Electricity

This explains static electricity. Running time is aprox. 20 mins.

PC Pitstop: Laptop Battery Fire

The authors intentionally created conditions in which the Li-ON battery pack would explode inside a generic portable. The results are dramatic. There are numerous conditions where these fires can occur in real life. Faulty battery packs (driving the recalls), faulty protection circuits inside the PC, exposure to excessive heat, and blunt force are some of the major ways that this could happen to you.

Hope your laptop isnt on your lap when this happens! 4:55

Richard Simmons - Steamer Fire

Richard Simmons gets .... steamed....on Letterman! Hey..was this steamer UL approved? Just wondering...

Firefighter responds to blaze in his own home

Worcester Telegram & Gazette News

The firefighter and his wife were having dinner at a local restaurant when he recieved a page for a fire...at his own house!

“It’s shocking,” Mr. Yellen said. “It’s one of those things you never ever think about (as a firefighter). ‘It’s not going to happen to me.’ ”

“As a firefighter,” Lt. Gilbert said, “I’ve been to many people’s homes to fight fires. But you don’t realize how hard and devastating it is until it’s your own house.”

Six Die in Rural House Fire; 4 in Apt Fire

News10.net - Six Die in Rural House Fire
This was in Shasta County. The fire was discovered by passerbys.

Apartment building fire in Memphis, Tenn., kills three kids, one adult

Fire officials say the bodies of a 40-year-old man, an eight-year-old girl, and two boys ages five and six were found inside a burned-out apartment after the overnight blaze.
Eight other people, including five children, have been treated for smoke inhalation and minor burns.

Boy, 9, dies in fire

MONTREAL - A nine-year-old boy is dead and his mother, 29, is in critical condition in a hospital following an overnight fire in their ground-floor apartment in Montreal.
The child's life might have been saved if the apartment had been equipped with a working smoke detector, a firefighter said.

"If there had been a smoke detector, we wouldn't be standing here talking about a fatal fire," Gilles Ducharme, fire department chief of operations, said as he paused in the charred doorway leading to the burnt-out flat.

Firefighters say the blaze started accidentally after a lamp short-circuited and set fire to a living-room sofa.

An upstairs tenant, who awoke just after midnight to the shrill sound of his own smoke detector, said he tried to help the desperate mother save her son, but was driven back by dense smoke billowing from the apartment.

Static at the Pumps

Watch as this woman goes back into her car and moves around (generating static electricity) then gets out and grabs the nozzle w/out touching the car (to ground herself) before grabbing the nozzle.

For more information about static at the pumps check out this website http://www.pei.org/static/ and from CNN

Food 411 for One: Microwave Sponge Disaster (funny)

Remember...the sponge needs to be WET and it is never a good idea to overload the outlets!!!

Electrical Fire

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Power lines ignite....awesome!