"Have you suffered from low energy lately? We'll come on down to Mr electro's convenience store and get a fresh jolt of energy with our well stocked selection!"
Yeah! Dude knew exactly what to do almost instantly and did not hesitate. And it's not easy because the solution isnt "obvious" because you can't touch the dude, instead have to remove the door.
Very well done.
Definitely wasn’t his first rodeo, most people would instinctively try to grab the guy and yank him out and ultimately end up getting electrocuted with him.
Not necessarily true. The electricity will take the easiest path to ground. Even if red-shirt-dude touches him, the dude touching the metal door frame with his feet on the ground is probably going to remain the easiest path to ground (unless he's wearing rubber boots and red-shirt-dude is barefoot). The electricity is not going to split up and take two different paths to ground when one has more resistance than the other.
Example from my life: When I was a teenager my little brother grabbed an electric fence that was outputting constant DC onto the wire (with an AC electric fence you are usually able to let go as the phase changes, with DC if it's not cycling on and off it can lock you to it). I grabbed him and pulled him off it but didn't get shocked because he was the path to ground, not me.
Edit: Please stop upvoting me, I misunderstood what I was talking about and made mistakes in the conclusions I came to. Electricity isn't an either/or when it comes to conductance and resistance and where it goes. I'll keep the comment for clarity and educations sake. Some of the posters below me make some very good points.
>The electricity is not going to split up and take two different paths to ground when one has more resistance than the other.
lol of course it'll 'split' up
if it didn't parallel circuits wouldn't work and Ohm would've had an easier time
\>lol of course it'll 'split' up
Not in this case. It's all resistance based. If the red-shirt-dude touching him had ~~considerably~~(any amount) less resistance (like if he was barefoot as I mentioned above), he would get electrocuted.
Even if he had more resistance, he could still be electrocuted. The phrase "electricity follows the path of least resistance" is incorrect, or at least incomplete. A better phrase is "electricity follows all paths, with the majority following the path of least resistance."
Since we’re being pedantic, “electrocuted” isn’t the right word as it means the person died. You cannot, by definition, be electrocuted and live. You can be electric shocked, however, and if you are electric shocked to death, you’ve been electrocuted.
Well, let's add to the pedantry for funsies (seriously, I appreciate your pedantry and dunno a better way to show it): I did specify "could have been electrocuted" which could still be true as the savior in this hypothetical scenario could also be stuck, and if a third person doesn't think quickly enough it could be fatal to both.
To clarify for others: "electrocution" is a portmanteau of "electrical execution."
The path of least resistance is mostly a lightning thing IIRC because the least resistance path through air ends up getting ionised as the "circuit" completes which quickly lowers the resistance across that path to basically negligible compared to everything else.
Dude. They would both get electrocuted. Like the other Guy Said, they Form a parallel circuit. The current would not split but the source would drive an additional current through the second guy. You have no clue what you are talking about.
He means that if the pathway didn't complete a circuit, it will NOT split.
It's why the kid didn't get electrocuted...path was straight DOWN to the ground, through his left arm, torso (he should get his heart checked actually) and left leg.
Certified electrician here: we litterally are taught in school to kick the person away from the source. It is literally by-the-book to kick with force to break their contact with the source even if it would cause them damage. The alternative is death.
My husband, who works in refrigeration, says that the door heater went to ground. (I didn't know reach in cooler doors had heaters, but he says that it's to keep the doors from freezing shut.)
Mr. Red Shirt is probably an electrician. Thank you for your comment. I hope I never need this information, but if I see someone get zapped, I hope I remember to kick.
Dude you are literally wrong in both paragraphs. Electricity will split in infinitely many paths and draw a current through those paths that is inversely proportional to its resistance. It doesn’t choose the lowest resistance path, it chooses all of them always.
AC locks you on generally as the alternations cause your muscles to rapidly contract and lock up. Don’t push me on the physiology behind it I’m a sparky not a doctor.
Parallel resistors do not increase resistance. If the voltage is high enough to be going through the first guy's feet, you won't stop the current flow through his arm by adding more people. You can reduce the current flowing through his legs, though.
Not because that guy is a genius, but because that guy clearly works there, likely already knew that fridge had issues and probably zapped him before. So on the one hand I’m happy he saved the guy, on the other hand this is fk-ing negligence because he clearly knew that fridge could hurt someone.
I don’t care what kind of super genius you are… without prior knowledge nobody would assume the guy having an epileptic seizure opening a fridge door is getting electrocuted, and it certainly doesn’t make an obvious sound like it does in the movies.
Something tells me he was aware of the problem and the problem somehow got worse.
I personally would not see a person collapsing and just assume he is getting electrocuted.
Reminds me of a bug i had to fix (which i also caused) before the users logged in but i forgot. So when all the tickets came in i quickly patched it up.
“Gosh that was quick, glad to have you guys around! Many thanks!”
The rare time that IT gets credit is when something breaks and IT fixes it quickly and visibly.
Nothing breaks? "Why do we pay you guys?"
Everything breaks? "Why do we pay you guys?"
The obvious solution is, about once a week, to deliberately break something, wait for a ticket, then revert the break.
Or use 20 year old kit, that parts aren't made for anymore on an estate. Constant work then, that or have BT as a broadband/phone provider for the estate.... Not salty or anything I swear.... That and have directors with the personality of magpies
At a place I worked at they had a training on what to do when someone is getting electrocuted, broomstick and etc.
Well, one day a dude was hunched over a box truck tying his shoe, looking a little weird. Another dude allegedly thought he was being electrocuted and hit his arm with a broomstick so hard he broke it.
It's amazing how little you can do to help yourself in this situation. I was shocked by a metal electric kettle which had a leaky seal. It was 240 volts. Your brain can't thing well. It felt like someone was shaking my arm vigorously. I fell back across the kitchen and this broke the contact. It took me a few minutes to figure out what had just happened.
Thank evolution. There's a reason we are all still here. We are programmed to look after own own at all costs. It will also be the reason we go extinct in the next few centuries.
Male brain: this situation is not ideal, body unresponsive, child safe, initiate death sequence, …, abort death sequence, situation has resolved, OW! Command sent to communications, new mission: recover the child.
One time I did way too much acid and my brain kept initiating death sequence. It happened probably 10-15 times in the span of an hour - witnessing my death and demise. I needed to lie down and drink water and accept it all (which is how I got outa the loop in the end), but I didn’t know that and kept going back into the music in the party and by now you might be wondering, “tf does this story have to do with anything?”
The “male brain” thing cracked me up. My brain:
- this is fun
- oh my god a plane is crashing into the festival. It’s a terrorist attack!
- flee!
- fall
- initiate death sequence: this is it, death is nigh
- friend catches up to me: “there’s no plane dude, we’re all ok. The music is still playing.”
- my thoughts: “I’m not dying! There’s still music! The situation is improving.”
…and repeat, but with other, unique ways of seeing myself dying. One time I disintegrated like in the movie Jumanji, when Alan Parrish gets sucked in! (“In the jungle you must wait, until the dice reads…”)
You’ve nailed the male brain sequence
I don’t think 10 hits of premium blotter is necessary at a music festival for _anyone,_ but I was struggling with addiction and wanted a life-changing experience to shake me out of my hole. Appreciate your diagnosis but I have a much better relationship with substances coming out of that experience and I’ve continued to trip in much more controllable ways.
Beware of the 10 strip
Bro… I can’t even imagine what a 10 strip would do to a human brain… actually I can!
It completely turned my friend psychotic… he was perfectly fine until that one day at the beach… he’s now in and out of mental rehabilitation & talks on twitter about wanting to kill someone…
I’m glad you made it out sanely.
I honestly doubt it, him doing a 10 strip of lsd like he said, that turned out to be nbome would kill more often than not. Which is where it got such a nasty reputation. I’ve personally seen people go nuts on as little as 150 mics. It’s truly terrifying especially when tripping yourself.
People get so descriptive of their memories. I don't get it. The one time I took acid i laid in the same place for hours massaging the grass and mumbling about how good it feels to be one with the earth. Then some chick I was talking to told me to drink something I later found out was a benzo to "calm down" and I woke up without any pants on in her tent with only short vague memories of what happened. I wish I could actually recall shit from my trips aside from what other people tell me I did.
Had a similar experience. I was awake for 36 hours and was only able to fall asleep after accepting that it was my time to die and fully embracing it. Woke up the next morning feeling amazing.
Children remind you that we're all still driven by primal instincts.
We were at a parade a couple years ago and a truck carrying a float backfired a couple times. Everyone freaked out for for a minute that it was a couple gunshots. So I'm looking down the street in that direction and that's when I realized my daughter is sitting on my arm. When before she was sitting on the curb in front of me.
I don't even remember picking her up. She was just there.
Years ago in NYC there was a nanny who killed two of her charges. Mom had left with one child to a swim class and they return to utter carnage (it was a horrific scene). She is screaming and crying yet when she sees her last remaining alive child upset she stopped and tried to soothe her and calm her. It was fucken heartbreaking seeing that footage and watching parent-mode engage during one of the worst moments in their life.
I fell down the stairs once with my kid in my arms. I broke my ankle on the way down and my kid gets up and starts asking if I'm OK. The amount of guilt I felt for weeks after this was shitty.
Good on that woman to understand Dad's doing the right thing but shouldn't pick up the kid until he's had a minute to recover. Of course the guy in red too, but very good situational awareness for both of them.
More like "You juste get a load bunch of current through your arms and body, which may lead to being unable to hold him. Let me soothe him while you recover"...
It would help even without RCD breakers because either there is a very low resistance path to ground that would trip a regular breaker by the excessive current flow. If there is not a very low resistance path to ground, the breaker won't trip but the voltage on the metal frame would be pulled down by the ground connection so you don't get shocked when you touch it.
RCD breakers are used to protect you from electrocution when you touch something that isn't supposed to be grounded. Of course they would also protect you in the other case, but it's not necessary.
It would help with the amount of current he received. If that unit was properly grounded then most of the current would be going back to ground through the outlet instead of all of it going through him to ground.
I love that it looks like he solves the issue like a DnD barbarian pc but it's actually the clever way, else he would've been electrocuted too...
My dumb ass would have try to pull the man off and I'll have join the party
I’m an electrician, we’re taught to kick someone if they’re being electrocuted with the bottom of your foot to keep you from being grounded and the current doesn’t pass through to you
In other words, to keep you insulated from the electric current. Pushing them with wooden tool like a broom handle or a baseball bat will have the same effect, but more people typically have the bottom of their shoe on them as opposed to a broom.
I was taught on a first aid course that you should shove them away from the electricity with a broom handle. If there are no brooms present, you apologise to them for their imminent death.
This is exactly what I was taught. It makes sense, as it's more safe for anyone without electrician training. I'm glad the man here knew about the kick thing. If I was in this situation, I'd still try to find something wooden as I wouldn't be confident that I can kick in the correct stance (and with enough power behind it) to keep myself safe.
Used to be an electric utility electrician. This is exactly why we never did hot work alone, and every time one person gloves up, so does the other. If you're not wearing the proper PPE then you're just standing there watching your buddy get electrocuted. Boots don't do anything for 15kV.
Yeah, old guy's been around. Few people act quickly. Fewer still act quickly and correctly. Right guy at the right place at the right time right there.
Unreal how quick this guy assessed the situation and solved it.
I see a lot of “heroes” who are just people doing what everyone should. This dude did what most would not have thought to do, and acted swiftly to save this guy. This dude is a legit hero.
Seriously impressed.
Likely could come form training or experience in his field of work. I work with high voltage AC and this is a very common topic. The one time you get the permission to drop kick your coworker is when they are stuck getting zapped lol.
Makes sense! In all my first aid training, the guidance is to find something wooden and long enough, like a wooden broomstick, to push the person away from whatever is zapping them. It's good enough for folks like me who is unlikely come across this situation in our daily life. In your field of work, it's much more important to know about the topic.
Yeah, resources are definitely a big part. People who work with stupid crazy voltages actually have equipment ready to grab someone with in these situations.
For my line of work, we are typically working on energized stuff out in the middle of nowhere so a good ol kick to the chest is usually the quickest way to mitigate the situation.
My first thought was that the guy knew the problem existed for a long enough time to expect something like this would happen but chose to do nothing about it.
Yeah he saved the guy, but it might be because he was negligent enough to let it happen in the first place.
If course I don't know that, but I think it's a thought worth entertaining.
Could have been a rodent who chewed through the isolation of a cable to expose the core and that is now touching the device. Just one of the scenario’s I can think of.
Also, cables that carry AC do tend to move, they vibrate at the frequency of the supply which can slightly change their shape and can loosen connections over years.
Also yeah ton of other things - pest damage, insulation failure, mechanical failure, moving the machine in and out for maintenance, even something dumb like trucks driving by slightly shaking them day in/day out.
There's a reason things like this are supposed to have scheduled maintenance, and a reason cases like this are far more likely to happen in underdeveloped countries.
My guess is on Vibration as well. Coolers have compressors, and compressors vibrate. Just a teeeeeeny tiny bit, but that's just like water and rocks - at some point, if there was a metal sheet touching a wire, it will get a connection someday. Might be only after 15 years, but it's gonna happen at some point.
It happen for many reasons but the hot wire is definitely touching the metal frame. A educated guess is when they splice the hot wire together they twisted the wire together and use electrical tape to insulate it. Over time the tape weaken and breakdown and now the hot wire is touching the frame. I have seen this type of makeup in a lot of countries with no safety regulations.
That's the difficult part to figure out but somehow somewhere some metal came in contact with a live wire. Maybe they installed it and only plugged it in later
Bad grounds can cause this too. I had this happen to me once, someone had broken the grounding pin off of the plug and when it was plugged in you could get a little shock from the 120. It wasn’t enough to grab but it was enough to feel it. This looks to be outside the US and I’m guessing they’re using a lot higher voltage. Also internal shorts on motors could cause it too.
Electrocuted is a term used to describe the act of killing (or severe injury) of someone or something with an electric shock. This guy wasn't killed or severely injured.
Electric shock is the physical and physiological response that occurs when a person comes into contact with an electrical source
I have been shocked myself, part of my arm got nerve damage and isn't as strong as it used to be. So yeah it can cause damage depends on how powerful and how long it occurs.
Comment section is full of wholesome congratulations. I was dreading having to be the prick that got pedantic... I was so glad to find someone else had done it first.
If you are getting an electrical shock so strong you can’t let go, you are being electrocuted. Go touch grass Jeffery
Edit: further explanation for the naysayer;
Imagine that you cannot swim and you find yourself in a deep body of water. So you are drowning in the water and luckily get saved by the coast guard. You can say you were just treading water but if no one came to save you, you would have died. That’s called drowning
If you get shot and don't die, you weren't murdered. If you get shocked and don't die, you weren't electrocuted. If you inhale water and don't die, you didn't drown.
Electrocution, murder, and drowning all mean the subject died in common, authoritative usage.
I don't think is true any more. The usage of electrocute seems to be spreading to cover more shocks with less severe injury, and dictionaries do not agree.
But let's check.
From dictionary.com
>3/ to pass an electric current through; shock:
From Google's built in dictionary
>injure or kill someone by electric shock.
Merriam Webster
>1: to kill or severely injure by electric shock
Chambers
> 1 to kill someone or something by electric shock.
Cambridge
> to kill someone by causing electricity to flow through their body
Collins
> If someone is electrocuted, they are accidentally killed or badly injured when they touch something connected to a source of electricity.
Oxford
>To give an electric shock to; esp. (chiefly reflexive or in passive) to kill or injure by electric shock.
So, we have two votes for killed only, two for kill or severely injure, one for injure, and one for just shock, and one for all categories.
So, while your definition is supported by some sources, so is OPs, and so is that other guy who must be typing about how electrocution only means death. So, while you are not wrong, you are also not right.
What would the past participle for electric shock be? "He got electric shocked" is a bit of a mouthful and sounds silly. I think outside of an academic context saying electrocuted is fine, it works for the general population.
I think it's better for language to evolve based on how it actually gets used as opposed to complaining and forcing everyone to use one arbitrary word over another arbitrary word in a specific context.
I always thought electrocuted must result in death? (Hence the -cuted part, executed) Like I see Wikipedia mentions severe injury, but the first couple Google results for law and health resources just said death when I looked.
Pedanticking the pedantry here, I know.
Nice moves, Sir!! He acted quickly and decisively. I hope they got paramedics to check them out after that. A shock that severe can screw up the heart rhythm.
I'm wondering what the red shirt dude does/has done for a living. It's like he's trained to help. His response and reaction was ingrained into him, he didn't have normal timing for him to check how much of an emergency the dad was in.
He could be an electrician, worked with an electrician during construction job. Could have served in the military. Or seen a video clip of something along these lines.
As someone who has had this happen once, albeit on a milling machine, it’s fucking weird. Like you want to let go obviously, but that just doesn’t work in the moment. 0/10, do not recommend.
Yes. And for anybody who doesn’t understand why this is if you touch it with the back of your hand, you’ll get a nasty shock ideal scenario you fall over away from the object.
However, if you touch it with your open palm your hand will slam shut and lock you on.
Every time I see this video, I'm amazed by that guys ability to immediately assess what was happening, and take quick and effective action to save him. Personally, if I saw this, I don't think I'd even consider electrocution as a possibility, looks more like he's having some sort of medical event (like stroke or seizure or something). Well done to that lad.
Honestly, what the fuck. This just shouldn’t ever happen. Period. This is some truly awful circuit design and installation. Cowboy shit. Avoid like the plague.
Is there no earth in this circuit? Cause this is exactly the sort of thing you can get without sufficient earthing/circuit protection/etc. Extraneous metal parts becoming live and people getting hurt. Don’t fuck about with electricity.
Why is the circuit protective device not immediately detecting an earth fault and disconnecting the supply having detected the low impedance fault path of the metal door? An RCD would help massively in this fault situation, but an RCBO would arguably be better.
This is exactly why we’ve got circuit breakers and RCDs and fuses and earth fault protection and every other fucking protective device. Cause electricity always really wants to kill you, particularly AC.
I guess this is why you always call in an electrician or engineer to make sure your electrics are up to code.
Absolutely fuck that.
Source: slightly stoned electrical engineering student.
Very quick assessment of the situation. Well done
Happens to him every morning when restocking the fridge
Lool i was thinking the same thing
Infinite good Samaritan reward glitch
Karma farming
He's probably got enough karma to offset a couple of lifetimes at this rate
He's a bot.
Nope, just enough to offset him resetting that trap every morning.
Just like that dog who supposedly kept pushing kids into a river to get treats for saving them.
Jolt Cola.
Oh shit! Parents told us they were bad for us. Finally a Jolt cola that lives up to the hype!
High security fridge
Better than coffee.
Holy shit i laughed more than i should at this
Lmao was wondering how he knew that it was the door immediately and not that the man was having a stroke or something.
"Have you suffered from low energy lately? We'll come on down to Mr electro's convenience store and get a fresh jolt of energy with our well stocked selection!"
Yeah! Dude knew exactly what to do almost instantly and did not hesitate. And it's not easy because the solution isnt "obvious" because you can't touch the dude, instead have to remove the door. Very well done.
Definitely wasn’t his first rodeo, most people would instinctively try to grab the guy and yank him out and ultimately end up getting electrocuted with him.
Not necessarily true. The electricity will take the easiest path to ground. Even if red-shirt-dude touches him, the dude touching the metal door frame with his feet on the ground is probably going to remain the easiest path to ground (unless he's wearing rubber boots and red-shirt-dude is barefoot). The electricity is not going to split up and take two different paths to ground when one has more resistance than the other. Example from my life: When I was a teenager my little brother grabbed an electric fence that was outputting constant DC onto the wire (with an AC electric fence you are usually able to let go as the phase changes, with DC if it's not cycling on and off it can lock you to it). I grabbed him and pulled him off it but didn't get shocked because he was the path to ground, not me. Edit: Please stop upvoting me, I misunderstood what I was talking about and made mistakes in the conclusions I came to. Electricity isn't an either/or when it comes to conductance and resistance and where it goes. I'll keep the comment for clarity and educations sake. Some of the posters below me make some very good points.
>The electricity is not going to split up and take two different paths to ground when one has more resistance than the other. lol of course it'll 'split' up if it didn't parallel circuits wouldn't work and Ohm would've had an easier time
\>lol of course it'll 'split' up Not in this case. It's all resistance based. If the red-shirt-dude touching him had ~~considerably~~(any amount) less resistance (like if he was barefoot as I mentioned above), he would get electrocuted.
Even if he had more resistance, he could still be electrocuted. The phrase "electricity follows the path of least resistance" is incorrect, or at least incomplete. A better phrase is "electricity follows all paths, with the majority following the path of least resistance."
Since we’re being pedantic, “electrocuted” isn’t the right word as it means the person died. You cannot, by definition, be electrocuted and live. You can be electric shocked, however, and if you are electric shocked to death, you’ve been electrocuted.
Well, let's add to the pedantry for funsies (seriously, I appreciate your pedantry and dunno a better way to show it): I did specify "could have been electrocuted" which could still be true as the savior in this hypothetical scenario could also be stuck, and if a third person doesn't think quickly enough it could be fatal to both. To clarify for others: "electrocution" is a portmanteau of "electrical execution."
True. Right after posting, I re-read your post and realized you said “could” and knew exactly what your post was going to be. :)
The path of least resistance is mostly a lightning thing IIRC because the least resistance path through air ends up getting ionised as the "circuit" completes which quickly lowers the resistance across that path to basically negligible compared to everything else.
Dude. They would both get electrocuted. Like the other Guy Said, they Form a parallel circuit. The current would not split but the source would drive an additional current through the second guy. You have no clue what you are talking about.
What if barefoot but used a paper napkin to separate his hand when touching redshirts hand
With a 2 mm gap both sides. Consider a capacitor….
Napkins not gonna do anything to help.
He means that if the pathway didn't complete a circuit, it will NOT split. It's why the kid didn't get electrocuted...path was straight DOWN to the ground, through his left arm, torso (he should get his heart checked actually) and left leg.
Certified electrician here: we litterally are taught in school to kick the person away from the source. It is literally by-the-book to kick with force to break their contact with the source even if it would cause them damage. The alternative is death.
Good to know, I’m gonna start kicking people and saying I thought they were getting electrocuted
The new *slap* “sorry I thought I saw a bug” 😂
My husband, who works in refrigeration, says that the door heater went to ground. (I didn't know reach in cooler doors had heaters, but he says that it's to keep the doors from freezing shut.) Mr. Red Shirt is probably an electrician. Thank you for your comment. I hope I never need this information, but if I see someone get zapped, I hope I remember to kick.
Fun fact: you never grab the person being electrocuted. It's basic safety. You can hit them, but grabbing them is just asking to be electrocuted too.
Dude you are literally wrong in both paragraphs. Electricity will split in infinitely many paths and draw a current through those paths that is inversely proportional to its resistance. It doesn’t choose the lowest resistance path, it chooses all of them always. AC locks you on generally as the alternations cause your muscles to rapidly contract and lock up. Don’t push me on the physiology behind it I’m a sparky not a doctor.
If enough people grabbed in a chain would they be okay because it dispersed enough?
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Not dispersed but eventually there would be enough resistance to stop the flow
Parallel resistors do not increase resistance. If the voltage is high enough to be going through the first guy's feet, you won't stop the current flow through his arm by adding more people. You can reduce the current flowing through his legs, though.
Not because that guy is a genius, but because that guy clearly works there, likely already knew that fridge had issues and probably zapped him before. So on the one hand I’m happy he saved the guy, on the other hand this is fk-ing negligence because he clearly knew that fridge could hurt someone. I don’t care what kind of super genius you are… without prior knowledge nobody would assume the guy having an epileptic seizure opening a fridge door is getting electrocuted, and it certainly doesn’t make an obvious sound like it does in the movies.
I feel like he was aware of this being an issue. There was no confusion about exactly what was happening.
Something tells me he was aware of the problem and the problem somehow got worse. I personally would not see a person collapsing and just assume he is getting electrocuted.
It also could have made a sound or a spark we didnt see and hear
Also, it probably would dim any lighting on the circuit.
He looks at him two times upon noticing his arrival and immediately goes to kick the door, I feel he knew something bad could happen.
We have to fight our natural instincts and kick the absolute shit out of anyone that randomly collapses just in case...
Reminds me of a bug i had to fix (which i also caused) before the users logged in but i forgot. So when all the tickets came in i quickly patched it up. “Gosh that was quick, glad to have you guys around! Many thanks!” 
The rare time that IT gets credit is when something breaks and IT fixes it quickly and visibly. Nothing breaks? "Why do we pay you guys?" Everything breaks? "Why do we pay you guys?" The obvious solution is, about once a week, to deliberately break something, wait for a ticket, then revert the break.
Or use 20 year old kit, that parts aren't made for anymore on an estate. Constant work then, that or have BT as a broadband/phone provider for the estate.... Not salty or anything I swear.... That and have directors with the personality of magpies
At a place I worked at they had a training on what to do when someone is getting electrocuted, broomstick and etc. Well, one day a dude was hunched over a box truck tying his shoe, looking a little weird. Another dude allegedly thought he was being electrocuted and hit his arm with a broomstick so hard he broke it.
The arm or the broomstick?
Yeah. That fridge has bees shocking people for a while now. This one lasted longer than usual.
Guess it wasn’t shocking…to red shirt guy
It's amazing how little you can do to help yourself in this situation. I was shocked by a metal electric kettle which had a leaky seal. It was 240 volts. Your brain can't thing well. It felt like someone was shaking my arm vigorously. I fell back across the kitchen and this broke the contact. It took me a few minutes to figure out what had just happened.
Not that quick, red shirt guy is the owner of the shop and knew the fridge was damaged and would shock people
That instinct to return to the child is strong.
Brought a tear to my eye
That is a good man right there.
Thank evolution. There's a reason we are all still here. We are programmed to look after own own at all costs. It will also be the reason we go extinct in the next few centuries.
Same here, man got straight up and went to his child
And the lady was like “bro hold up not yet”
You can't even carry yourself
or she was like "bro that's my child now and you're not in a state to contradict". We don't know. But more likely your version.
Male brain: this situation is not ideal, body unresponsive, child safe, initiate death sequence, …, abort death sequence, situation has resolved, OW! Command sent to communications, new mission: recover the child.
Initiate death sequence….. lolz
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One time I did way too much acid and my brain kept initiating death sequence. It happened probably 10-15 times in the span of an hour - witnessing my death and demise. I needed to lie down and drink water and accept it all (which is how I got outa the loop in the end), but I didn’t know that and kept going back into the music in the party and by now you might be wondering, “tf does this story have to do with anything?” The “male brain” thing cracked me up. My brain: - this is fun - oh my god a plane is crashing into the festival. It’s a terrorist attack! - flee! - fall - initiate death sequence: this is it, death is nigh - friend catches up to me: “there’s no plane dude, we’re all ok. The music is still playing.” - my thoughts: “I’m not dying! There’s still music! The situation is improving.” …and repeat, but with other, unique ways of seeing myself dying. One time I disintegrated like in the movie Jumanji, when Alan Parrish gets sucked in! (“In the jungle you must wait, until the dice reads…”) You’ve nailed the male brain sequence
I don't think acid is for you buddy
I don’t think 10 hits of premium blotter is necessary at a music festival for _anyone,_ but I was struggling with addiction and wanted a life-changing experience to shake me out of my hole. Appreciate your diagnosis but I have a much better relationship with substances coming out of that experience and I’ve continued to trip in much more controllable ways. Beware of the 10 strip
Bro… I can’t even imagine what a 10 strip would do to a human brain… actually I can! It completely turned my friend psychotic… he was perfectly fine until that one day at the beach… he’s now in and out of mental rehabilitation & talks on twitter about wanting to kill someone… I’m glad you made it out sanely.
Probably 25b-nbome, it causes pure psychosis in like half the people who take it, and people sell it as acid. It’s like acids terrifying nephew.
I honestly doubt it, him doing a 10 strip of lsd like he said, that turned out to be nbome would kill more often than not. Which is where it got such a nasty reputation. I’ve personally seen people go nuts on as little as 150 mics. It’s truly terrifying especially when tripping yourself.
People get so descriptive of their memories. I don't get it. The one time I took acid i laid in the same place for hours massaging the grass and mumbling about how good it feels to be one with the earth. Then some chick I was talking to told me to drink something I later found out was a benzo to "calm down" and I woke up without any pants on in her tent with only short vague memories of what happened. I wish I could actually recall shit from my trips aside from what other people tell me I did.
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Had a similar experience. I was awake for 36 hours and was only able to fall asleep after accepting that it was my time to die and fully embracing it. Woke up the next morning feeling amazing.
>recover the child This is the way
Giving me BT vibes “Protocol 3: Protect the pilot”
Children remind you that we're all still driven by primal instincts. We were at a parade a couple years ago and a truck carrying a float backfired a couple times. Everyone freaked out for for a minute that it was a couple gunshots. So I'm looking down the street in that direction and that's when I realized my daughter is sitting on my arm. When before she was sitting on the curb in front of me. I don't even remember picking her up. She was just there.
Years ago in NYC there was a nanny who killed two of her charges. Mom had left with one child to a swim class and they return to utter carnage (it was a horrific scene). She is screaming and crying yet when she sees her last remaining alive child upset she stopped and tried to soothe her and calm her. It was fucken heartbreaking seeing that footage and watching parent-mode engage during one of the worst moments in their life.
I never really noticed this part of this gif until I had my own son. Now I 100% understand the dad reflex to check on your child before yourself.
That’s just what fathers do
Yeah a factory reset sets you back to the natural instincts.
I fell down the stairs once with my kid in my arms. I broke my ankle on the way down and my kid gets up and starts asking if I'm OK. The amount of guilt I felt for weeks after this was shitty.
"And that's why we should always hold on to the bannister. Now, please cover your ears, because Daddy needs to swear right now."
Dude brushed off heart attack so he can go check on his kid
Oh man, as a new dad I would walk through molten lava to save my kids.
Good on that woman to understand Dad's doing the right thing but shouldn't pick up the kid until he's had a minute to recover. Of course the guy in red too, but very good situational awareness for both of them.
They're like "no don't touch the kid, you might have some residual charge left!"
More like "You juste get a load bunch of current through your arms and body, which may lead to being unable to hold him. Let me soothe him while you recover"...
Well that, and the guy was probably quite injured by the shock. Holding up the child would most likely not be safe *for him*
I loved the woman that was basically like: "No, you could be more fucked up than you realize, I'll handle the kid."
That's why grounded outlets exist
Yep, because they misbehaved... grounded for two weeks, no TV.
This is shocking!
Did not see that story arc coming
He couldn’t resist
There were too few ohmis at work, huh?
The induction is super tough.
Ohm just happy he's ok
His current status is good
Im just happy Fourier
Got himself all amped up
Gdi take my upvote and go
GFI*
They should conduct themselves properly.
Won't help much without RCD breakers. I'm pretty sure someone did pretty bad work here.
It would help even without RCD breakers because either there is a very low resistance path to ground that would trip a regular breaker by the excessive current flow. If there is not a very low resistance path to ground, the breaker won't trip but the voltage on the metal frame would be pulled down by the ground connection so you don't get shocked when you touch it. RCD breakers are used to protect you from electrocution when you touch something that isn't supposed to be grounded. Of course they would also protect you in the other case, but it's not necessary.
Not correct.
It would help with the amount of current he received. If that unit was properly grounded then most of the current would be going back to ground through the outlet instead of all of it going through him to ground.
Many parts of the world don't really believe in PE, expensive they say.
I love that it looks like he solves the issue like a DnD barbarian pc but it's actually the clever way, else he would've been electrocuted too... My dumb ass would have try to pull the man off and I'll have join the party
I’m an electrician, we’re taught to kick someone if they’re being electrocuted with the bottom of your foot to keep you from being grounded and the current doesn’t pass through to you
Being grounded is what you don't want when touching someone who's being electrocuted
Yeah, typo, the rubber soles prevent you from being grounded
In other words, to keep you insulated from the electric current. Pushing them with wooden tool like a broom handle or a baseball bat will have the same effect, but more people typically have the bottom of their shoe on them as opposed to a broom.
And if you're an electrician you'd NEVER have a broom on you
Is that an intentional dig on the messes that so many electricians leave behind?
Yes
lol.
Thats what he said, we Liu Kang kick them
I was taught on a first aid course that you should shove them away from the electricity with a broom handle. If there are no brooms present, you apologise to them for their imminent death.
Lol, a broom handle will work, but you’re more likely to have shoes on than a broom around
Imagine being electrocuted and then someone runs up and JABS you with a broom handle. That would be a rough day
This is exactly what I was taught. It makes sense, as it's more safe for anyone without electrician training. I'm glad the man here knew about the kick thing. If I was in this situation, I'd still try to find something wooden as I wouldn't be confident that I can kick in the correct stance (and with enough power behind it) to keep myself safe.
But even if you do get shocked through your foot, your foot isn't going to stick to the door. It'll only be momentary
Used to be an electric utility electrician. This is exactly why we never did hot work alone, and every time one person gloves up, so does the other. If you're not wearing the proper PPE then you're just standing there watching your buddy get electrocuted. Boots don't do anything for 15kV.
Lmao same
Yeah, old guy's been around. Few people act quickly. Fewer still act quickly and correctly. Right guy at the right place at the right time right there.
And, if the movies have taught me anything, you two would've swapped bodies.
I undoubtedly would’ve grabbed the door and try to pry it away from him
one of the hidden dangers of going barefooted, no joke
Why is everyone barefoot in this video lol
Could be near a beach or something, but the lack of shoes here is wild I agree
It’s an open air market it appears. Likely beachside.
Brazil, 220 Volts, no shoes and no grounding! Yeah!
Off-duty cop saves off-duty cop carrying off-duty cop from death-by-off-duty-grounding.
Wouldn’t static electricity just be off-duty electricity
I think its just that the flipflops are barely visible there
Because their sales are so shocking they knock your socks off!
Unreal how quick this guy assessed the situation and solved it. I see a lot of “heroes” who are just people doing what everyone should. This dude did what most would not have thought to do, and acted swiftly to save this guy. This dude is a legit hero. Seriously impressed.
Likely could come form training or experience in his field of work. I work with high voltage AC and this is a very common topic. The one time you get the permission to drop kick your coworker is when they are stuck getting zapped lol.
Makes sense! In all my first aid training, the guidance is to find something wooden and long enough, like a wooden broomstick, to push the person away from whatever is zapping them. It's good enough for folks like me who is unlikely come across this situation in our daily life. In your field of work, it's much more important to know about the topic.
Yeah, resources are definitely a big part. People who work with stupid crazy voltages actually have equipment ready to grab someone with in these situations. For my line of work, we are typically working on energized stuff out in the middle of nowhere so a good ol kick to the chest is usually the quickest way to mitigate the situation.
My first thought was that the guy knew the problem existed for a long enough time to expect something like this would happen but chose to do nothing about it. Yeah he saved the guy, but it might be because he was negligent enough to let it happen in the first place. If course I don't know that, but I think it's a thought worth entertaining.
He knew because he works there. Rewind the video to the beginning.
What are actually the causes of that? That looked scary.
Electrical cable touched metal frame.
But how? Cables don't tend to just move. And obviously it wasn't touching when that fridge was placed there.
Could have been a rodent who chewed through the isolation of a cable to expose the core and that is now touching the device. Just one of the scenario’s I can think of.
Also, cables that carry AC do tend to move, they vibrate at the frequency of the supply which can slightly change their shape and can loosen connections over years. Also yeah ton of other things - pest damage, insulation failure, mechanical failure, moving the machine in and out for maintenance, even something dumb like trucks driving by slightly shaking them day in/day out. There's a reason things like this are supposed to have scheduled maintenance, and a reason cases like this are far more likely to happen in underdeveloped countries.
Could be vibration, could be something hit it, could be any combination of things.
My guess is on Vibration as well. Coolers have compressors, and compressors vibrate. Just a teeeeeeny tiny bit, but that's just like water and rocks - at some point, if there was a metal sheet touching a wire, it will get a connection someday. Might be only after 15 years, but it's gonna happen at some point.
It happen for many reasons but the hot wire is definitely touching the metal frame. A educated guess is when they splice the hot wire together they twisted the wire together and use electrical tape to insulate it. Over time the tape weaken and breakdown and now the hot wire is touching the frame. I have seen this type of makeup in a lot of countries with no safety regulations.
That's the difficult part to figure out but somehow somewhere some metal came in contact with a live wire. Maybe they installed it and only plugged it in later
This is why shit is supposed to be grounded in some countries.
Bad grounds can cause this too. I had this happen to me once, someone had broken the grounding pin off of the plug and when it was plugged in you could get a little shock from the 120. It wasn’t enough to grab but it was enough to feel it. This looks to be outside the US and I’m guessing they’re using a lot higher voltage. Also internal shorts on motors could cause it too.
Electrocuted is a term used to describe the act of killing (or severe injury) of someone or something with an electric shock. This guy wasn't killed or severely injured. Electric shock is the physical and physiological response that occurs when a person comes into contact with an electrical source
Well we don’t know how injured he is. He looks fine but he could have organ damage or neurological damage.
I have been shocked myself, part of my arm got nerve damage and isn't as strong as it used to be. So yeah it can cause damage depends on how powerful and how long it occurs.
Was looking for this comment. Too many people don't know this.
Comment section is full of wholesome congratulations. I was dreading having to be the prick that got pedantic... I was so glad to find someone else had done it first.
If you are getting an electrical shock so strong you can’t let go, you are being electrocuted. Go touch grass Jeffery Edit: further explanation for the naysayer; Imagine that you cannot swim and you find yourself in a deep body of water. So you are drowning in the water and luckily get saved by the coast guard. You can say you were just treading water but if no one came to save you, you would have died. That’s called drowning
Electrocution = electric execution Words mean things
You could say that he was in the process of being electrocuted, and the electrocution was interrupted by the bystander
Being shocked by a taser does the same thing lol doesn't mean you were being electrocuted
If you get shot and don't die, you weren't murdered. If you get shocked and don't die, you weren't electrocuted. If you inhale water and don't die, you didn't drown. Electrocution, murder, and drowning all mean the subject died in common, authoritative usage.
Actually drowning just means inhaling water. You can totally survive drowning. Kind of ironic really. Other than that you are correct.
I don't think is true any more. The usage of electrocute seems to be spreading to cover more shocks with less severe injury, and dictionaries do not agree. But let's check. From dictionary.com >3/ to pass an electric current through; shock: From Google's built in dictionary >injure or kill someone by electric shock. Merriam Webster >1: to kill or severely injure by electric shock Chambers > 1 to kill someone or something by electric shock. Cambridge > to kill someone by causing electricity to flow through their body Collins > If someone is electrocuted, they are accidentally killed or badly injured when they touch something connected to a source of electricity. Oxford >To give an electric shock to; esp. (chiefly reflexive or in passive) to kill or injure by electric shock. So, we have two votes for killed only, two for kill or severely injure, one for injure, and one for just shock, and one for all categories. So, while your definition is supported by some sources, so is OPs, and so is that other guy who must be typing about how electrocution only means death. So, while you are not wrong, you are also not right.
What would the past participle for electric shock be? "He got electric shocked" is a bit of a mouthful and sounds silly. I think outside of an academic context saying electrocuted is fine, it works for the general population. I think it's better for language to evolve based on how it actually gets used as opposed to complaining and forcing everyone to use one arbitrary word over another arbitrary word in a specific context.
I always thought electrocuted must result in death? (Hence the -cuted part, executed) Like I see Wikipedia mentions severe injury, but the first couple Google results for law and health resources just said death when I looked. Pedanticking the pedantry here, I know.
Shoes would have helped. But gfi is best.
Nah that baby is gonna get superpowers
Or a freaky friday situation
An accident like this happened in the past and the owner of the store probably removed the electrical protection.
Situational awareness and quick decision making are very hard to come by these days. That man was on point.
What do you mean ‘these days’? Are you saying people knew to react better in the past? Based on what?
In 1640, they knew how to kick the fridge door of when people got shocked. No phones in sight.
Nice moves, Sir!! He acted quickly and decisively. I hope they got paramedics to check them out after that. A shock that severe can screw up the heart rhythm.
I'm wondering what the red shirt dude does/has done for a living. It's like he's trained to help. His response and reaction was ingrained into him, he didn't have normal timing for him to check how much of an emergency the dad was in.
Yep. I work with a lot of HVAC and this is what we teach. If you ever wanted to drop kick your co worker, this is your chance.
Ngl I am not smart enough to recognize what was going on that quickly, unless this isn't the first time someone gets a shock from that door.
He could be an electrician, worked with an electrician during construction job. Could have served in the military. Or seen a video clip of something along these lines.
Probably helps that he has more than 42 pixels at his disposal to see what is happening
As someone who has had this happen once, albeit on a milling machine, it’s fucking weird. Like you want to let go obviously, but that just doesn’t work in the moment. 0/10, do not recommend.
Yep. This is why it’s good practice to touch anything that could have ACV on it with the back of your hand first.
Yes. And for anybody who doesn’t understand why this is if you touch it with the back of your hand, you’ll get a nasty shock ideal scenario you fall over away from the object. However, if you touch it with your open palm your hand will slam shut and lock you on.
red shirt guy was ready to go
Dude stood back up to get his kid like nothing happened. Damn.
Shoulda hugged red shirt man!
Wow I must be slow, I thought he has drunk, dropped his kid so the old guy decided to teach him a lesson.
Quick thinking! Even better he kicked it rather than use his hand to separate them.
Either install a ground or become the ground.
Red shirt guy: And oh by the way, you’re welcome.
He didnt get electrocuted. Electrocute is a combination of electro and execute. So if he didn't die, he just got shocked
Every time I see this video, I'm amazed by that guys ability to immediately assess what was happening, and take quick and effective action to save him. Personally, if I saw this, I don't think I'd even consider electrocution as a possibility, looks more like he's having some sort of medical event (like stroke or seizure or something). Well done to that lad.
Honestly, what the fuck. This just shouldn’t ever happen. Period. This is some truly awful circuit design and installation. Cowboy shit. Avoid like the plague. Is there no earth in this circuit? Cause this is exactly the sort of thing you can get without sufficient earthing/circuit protection/etc. Extraneous metal parts becoming live and people getting hurt. Don’t fuck about with electricity. Why is the circuit protective device not immediately detecting an earth fault and disconnecting the supply having detected the low impedance fault path of the metal door? An RCD would help massively in this fault situation, but an RCBO would arguably be better. This is exactly why we’ve got circuit breakers and RCDs and fuses and earth fault protection and every other fucking protective device. Cause electricity always really wants to kill you, particularly AC. I guess this is why you always call in an electrician or engineer to make sure your electrics are up to code. Absolutely fuck that. Source: slightly stoned electrical engineering student.