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Article #1488Re: SHOCKING STORIES
From: Ira Carmel
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 20:55
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 20:55
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I have never really had any seriously large electrical shocks, but I had a very
scary shock when I was about 14. No one was home and I was in the kitchen. I
had been washing my hands and while holding onto the faucet pipe, I started to
open the fridge- The wall current decided that I was a great path to the earth
and I stood there jiggling. All these awful thoughts were running through my
head... like 'am I gonna have a heart problem here soon?'.. and 'why isn't
there anyone home?'. I was grasping both the faucet and the fridge and the
pulses were of course screwing with my motor skills- I couldn't let go at all..
so I stood there and thought morbid thoughts for a bit and jiggled.. I somehow
managed to wrench myself free (I don't know how, I think I was falling
backwards.) and I sort of slumped against the counter behind me. I don't trust
large cooling devices to this day. I don't think I have any scars, but I felt
very week for about an hour.
-ira
/{It is ok that you are all figments of my overtaxed imagination. }?
/{Then again maybe I'm not that creative. }?
/{E-mail for questions about it all to IRAC@yang.earlham.edu }?
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