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On 1/20/2017 10:36 AM, Mr Rob wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 09:01:16 +0000, Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I was once working on my PC with the side off, the PC was on. I think
>> I was investigating fan noise. At the same time I was eating cherry
>> tomatoes and one exploded as I bit it. Somehow I was covered in tomato
>> juice but the PC survived.
>
> Haha!
>
>
> I don't think anybody can beat Mrs Rob for crazy things connected to
> electricity (not in a PC)
>
> Two that immediately spring to mind are:
>
> Plugging an extension lead into the wall - not to use it, but to 'cut
> it to length' for where she wanted it to reach. She tried to cut it
> with a serrated carving knife - whilst the lead was plugged in - and
> switched on at the wall. The bang was huge and her hair was actually
> smoldering and standing on end like a scene from a cartoon. She's very
> lucky to have escaped with just a single small but very deep and nasty
> burn in the crook of her elbow and a badly scorched scalp. The knife
> blade had a lump melted out of it and looked like it had been in a
> fire.
>
>
> Many years ago when we were first married, we bought an electric
> strimmer. Mrs Rob 'wired it up' but somehow managed to have two male
> pins exposed - which I picked up ready to plug into the female
> connector - and promptly got literally blasted off my feet. I was
> wearing rubber gardening wellingtons at the time which I'm told
> probably saved my life. My ears were ringing with tinnitus for weeks
> after that and I still have a long jagged scar on my right index
> finger where it literally split open like a banana skin.
>
> I don't trust Mrs Rob around electricity anymore.
>

I have a way with electronics, sometimes I just look at them and they 
start working.  The worst thing I've ever done was accidentally wipe a 
loved one's HD... without a backup.  I've done that twice with different 
people, one of the times I thought I was doing a backup...  the other 
time I was cleaning space off a full HD and wiped the wrong profile 
without realizing (stupid windows bug there were two for her.) Then 
installed something else, thereby wiping any chance of recovery. Both a 
very long time ago, I think I've learned that lesson.

The worst thing I've done with electricity was trim the power cord on 
the electric hedge trimmer this summer... I still can't get that outlet 
to work, but the hedge trimmer still does.

One of my friends opened up a malfunctioning CRT to troubleshoot and 
managed to create ball lightning while I was present.  Capacitors you know.

- Justisaur