Sharkbait
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voodoocat said:Speaking of darwin awards... I could have almost won one.
I have always been very... umm.. curious... Always trying to figure out how things work and that sort of stuff. One evening when I was 8, I was playing around in my room. I had an AC adapter (the kind with the male plug) and I had a 3 ring binder. I thought I could harness the power of the adapter into the binder. So I plugged it in, touched it to the metal part and [insert sound effect of something powering down] I killed the power to half of our house. good times.. good times...
Sounds familiar, only I was much older. I was in my first house, trying to hook up the clothes dryer. Well they don't come with the plug already attached, so I had the 220v plug and was hooking it up. I don't know what the hell possessed me to plug it into the wall before attaching it to the dryer, but the contacts accidently touched, and WHAM, I got a wallop of 220 up the arm. hehe Dumbass me.