[Elecraft] Yet another on the "stupid" thread

[Rob Locher]

When I was about seven, I read books at night when I was supposed to be  
sleeping, by the light of a night-light.  The problem was that the  
night-light wasn't very bright.  So what did I do?  I attached the  
night-light to an extension power cord, and held one end of the extension  
cord with my teeth.

One night, some of my saliva got into the plug...  I don't think I tripped  
any circuit breakers, but the shock sure rang my bells.

How did we ever survive childhood?

- Rob KE7EAG
K2 #5004 (almost finished)



On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:26:17 -0800, Chuck Mabbott <crmabbott at comcast.net>  
wrote:

> OK, my daughter was going to replace the switch cover in her room.  Next  
> thing we heard the pop of a fuse blowing and she jumped.......  Ask her  
> what happened and she said a spark jumped and the lights went out.  I  
> told her you can't do that with power on and "Don't be silly dad, I  
> turned the switch off."
>
> I got her a bulletin from the hardware store about electrical safety  
> that afternoon.
>
> 73
> Chuck
> AA8VS