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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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)
Frabens 1
That's a shocking situation! I'll show myself out.
shesaywha 19
The 'I'll show myself out' bit is more annoying than the actual shitty pun.
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
paintbullits 13
Always check yourself when working with electricity, there are only two people who i trust when they say its off.
Rented_eyebrows 18
"Cough" sue her! "Cough"
awildwhisper 30
People make mistakes, especially if OP is ok then there's no reason to sue. Electric fences aren't build to kill, just dissuade animals and people from touching them again.
eyepuppy 31
Plus it's Op's fault she didn't check the fence before working around it. Stupidity is no reason to sue.
LAUGHINGKOMODO 25
They did check. They asked and theybsaid it was off
viipeterson98 14
@ #15 So if a bank makes a mistake and loses your money, it's just a mistake? Or, in this case, someone doesn't check their electric fence when someone is on a ladder and could've been seriously injured? Regardless of it being a mistake, she's still at fault over not checking the fence.
ezrocks4u 29
I'm just curious as to the reason she needed an electric fence?
madscientist_17 15
Farm animals. A lot of people who own horses have hot fences.
Lizza330 28
My grandpa's neighbors have an electric fence on their farm, because their bull kept jumping the fence.
manofmerr 27
They might have werewolves in the area.
manofmerr 27
Why the thumb down? Where i live, werewolves are a persistant problem, and with the price of silver going up, i can't afford use my gatling gun, or even my shotgun. So instead i use a electric fence to ensure no werewolves get to me. I actually think op is a werewolf, and was actually testing the fence to see how strong it is, and modifying it so he can turn it off later. This fml is just part of his cover story.
PumaGator 18
animals, privacy, high-income business, high crime area...
superman21_fml 19
Probably should have verified that yourself, especially since you knew you'd be working around it.
eyepuppy 31
This is rule number 1 for working around electricity. It's a big YDI to OP for not checking.
Zebediabolical 45
You must be new.
ImGoth 15
Sue
Tripartita 45
Katie
taterrtots 25
Jennifer
False_Stupidity 42
Nicole
manofmerr 27
Mary
Talented73 54
YLS because you got zapped. YDI because you should have checked it for yourself. Bet you won't make that mistake again!
GhostFox 34
Aaaand how was OP supposed to check, since it sounds like the breaker/switch was somewhere the client didn't want OP to go? Touch it and get shocked an additional time?
evilplatypus 39
Where does it come close to implying the client didn't want OP to go where the circuit breaker was? Always double check your own lock out/tag outs.
ShotaSammy 17
#13, throw a stick at it or a metal tool, it zaps things even if its not alive. Yould notice if a spark happens or not.
Riztek 0
You must of been in shock.
Chronomay 20
Dude rule #1 is to check the power yourself. I learned that in high school.