Today, on site, my client was certain she had switched off her electric fence prior to me conducting an inspection of her boundary retaining wall. I overbalanced on my ladder and grabbed at the fence wires for support. The electricity was not switched off. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was leaning over a fence in a pasture to get a closer look at something. Nobody warned my nuts that it was an electric fence. FML
Today, our electric horse fence broke. I turned it off so I could fix it. As I was grabbing the fence, my brother thought it would be hilarious to turn the fence back on. FML
Today, I was putting my horse away into her pasture, when I slipped in the mud. In a haisty attempt to support myself, I grabbed the electric fence in on hand, and my horse with the other. The shock from the fence traveled through me to her, sending her running and leaving me with 2 broken teeth. FML
Today, I was replacing some outlets for work and I got surprise-electrified. I threw my wire strippers in the air while yelling, "Oh fuck me." The homeowner and his 2 kids were standing 3 feet away. He was not happy. FML
Today, I got the worst electric shock ever, touching a wire that was connected to the electric fence only by a plastic isolator, made specifically to NOT conduct electricity. I still don’t understand how it was possible. FML
Today, I let my dogs out, and then realized they didn't have their electric fence collars on. I ran inside to get the collars, then dashed out to put them on my dogs. I ran through the electric fence. The collars were on. FML
Today, while letting horses out to switch pasture, one ran at me, sending me through the electric fence and into a mud puddle. Wrapped in electric fence, I sat in that electric mud puddle, screaming every time it shocked me. Help arrived, once they'd had a good long laugh. FML
Today, I managed to electrocute myself on a plug socket while I was showing a group of trainee electricians how not to electrocute themselves while rewiring a plug socket. FML
Today, as I was pulling into my driveway, I hit my fence. The same fence that I had repaired last week because I had run into it. FML
Today, my dogs broke through our electric fence, one of whom managed to get his collar off. I picked it up and, without thinking, went across the fence line. I screamed like a chihuahua being run over by a bulldozer. FML
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LAUGHINGKOMODO 25
They did check. They asked and theybsaid it was off
airdude25 18
Ouch! I'm sorry OP! Hopefully it wasn't a high voltage fence. Although, you should have made sure because people are stupid
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Comments (40)
rockninja 21
that must have hurt.
cstack62 10
You should have been the one to turn it off and lock it out.
maritime1992 5
Hey, at least you weren't electrocuted.
PePziNL 20
Watt was the reason you didn't check it for yourself?
xbaconator9000x 16
#Time2Sue!
RpiesSPIES 27
You must be great at your job to know that something is not right just through feeling something. You should get a bonus.
slavka012 11
Ydi, plain and simple. It is your safety so don't take word of random anybody. Test it yourself. If you don't have tools for that at least make them touch it first, lol
Mudge 11
I smell a lawsuit
ralphnader 13
Lock out tag out. If you didn't do it or check it, assume it wasn't done.
iverson17 0
Never been electrocuted but can't imagine it feels too good, but I hope it wasn't as bad as it sounds OP.