Ive been wondering for a long time if you installed a receptacle behind a toilet or just off center someone may be able to pee on it. Furthermore, if you where standing on a slab with tile and your feet are bare and damp could the power travel up the salty content in your urine and shock you. Ive heard of people doing this in the subway on the live tracks and knocking them dead. Any thoughts?
this actually is a true story. it was covered at a safety meeting for a public utility.
it happened in the service area for that utility.
a man climbed up to the top of a 230KV tower, armed with a backpack of beers.
he sat up there drinking, and throwing down the empties, while communing with
nature, and i'm sure, reviewing every misfortune done to him by man, beast, or fate.
nature taking it's course, and still having beers undrunk, the man set out to relieve
himself, and decided to see if he could pee in between the parallel conductors of one
of the phases.
salt water being what it is, he took 230 kv to his groin area, and fell from the tower,
landing on his back.
he was conscious when paramedics reached him. he lived for a day afterwards.
that information was presented at a quarterly safety meeting for the utility.
