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[Doug]

On 9/17/2010 1:34 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>>>/snip/
>>>
>>> This, unfortunately, is not funny.  My best man was killed in his house
>>> by 115 VAC.  He was standing barefoot on a heat-vent, and changing a
>>> record or something on his hi-fi system.  Apparently there was a hot
>>> chassis in the hi-fi system.  When he did not report for work at his
>>> father's shop, the father went to the house and found him, far too late.
>>> He left a wife and a little boy about two. RIP, Ron.
>>>
>>
>> Most sorry to hear about Ron. Condolences to his wife and son. However,
>> Hong Kong has long gone with three pin wiring. Why is it that you still
>> have unearthed wiring nowadays!?
>
> Some people have zero tolerance for the juice. I'm sorry to hear your
> friend was killed. As a kid I used to put paper-clips into wall sockets
> just to feel the buzz. I've always had a very high tolerance for
> electricity, yet I still respect it. I've got a bushel basket of
> screwdrivers with the tips blown off, so I am well aware of it's power.
> Why we limit our protection to ground-fault interrupter codes to
> bathrooms is beyond me.
I was told, when I asked the question, that the GFI would trip out all
the time, if the whole house had it.  I don't know why.

>
> But, in your friend's case, it almost sounds like the line cord or the
> wall socket was wired backwards, to have gotten shocked by the chassis.
> His family may wish to check and then sue the dickens out of whoever did
> it.  Ric

I don't know if they sued.  this was 40 some years ago.

--doug
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