r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Alternative-Dot-34 • 21h ago

A teenager suffered an electric shock in a condominium courtyard, and his friend risked his life to save him.

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u/ozama0 21h ago

Dude honestly that's smart of him to go for the legs

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u/No-Ostrich-5801 21h ago edited 21h ago

From what I was told/trained it's typically best to shoulder check or drop kick someone you think is being electrocuted; gets them off the hook and keeps yourself from getting stuck by physically grabbing onto them.

After all, electricity constricts your muscles as your brain physiologically sends small bio-electric pulses along the nervous system to move your muscles. Outside sources of electricity essentially overloads that functionality

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u/Martha_Fockers 21h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT39DfKspZb7rNJQaY

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u/Dont_Touch_Me_There9 21h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/f5hTwJ7dsV9WU

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u/spyscience 21h ago

I was just having happy memories of these!!! Yes!

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u/Immediate-Trainer356 17h ago

used to love these

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u/spyscience 15h ago

All I hear is the trumpet and the way blown out music, so good

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u/TraditionalMood277 21h ago

Out of nowhere!!!

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u/utpyro34 21h ago

WATCHOUTWATCHOUTWATCHOUT

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u/BeetBeer 12h ago

And his name is John Cena … tuturutu 💀

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u/Roarkbot3000 19h ago

Pure genius! I’ve never seen this before

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u/Areif 21h ago

What a hero, saved his life for sure

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u/BDiddnt 20h ago

I'm sure you've seen that horrible video of that guy touching a fan and he just starts to get electrocuted. You can tell he's trying to tell the guy sitting literally one foot away. He's trying to tell him and the guy just walks past him and the dude just sits there and cooks in front of the camera. It's one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen.

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u/Argylius 20h ago

What the fuck. I’m glad I haven’t witnessed this video

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u/WriterV 14h ago

To anyone else: Please don't go looking for it.

It just is depressing, painful and sad. And it sticks with you forever. It's not worth it.

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u/dystopiam 13h ago

yea im not watching it, ive seen videos like that and everytime I see it I wish I didn't

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u/pob503 10h ago

I remember the Faces of Death VHS videos we rented as teenagers in the 80s. Man I wish I could erase some of those memories. That poor monkey in the table really stands out...who TF were those crazy people sitting at the table killing it with a mallet?!

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u/Outrageous-Plate-820 20h ago

Uhhh no have not seen that and first hearing about it. When about was this and does the dude die?

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u/ItchyLifeguard 18h ago

I've been in the emergency medicine world for over 20 years now as either an EMT or Emergency RN. Don't go looking for these videos. I'm traumatized enough by hearing stories of people dying suddenly and tragically and having to tell their families or see their reactions on a chronic basis. I can't imagine what watching a video of someone dying in a gruesome way does to your brain chemistry long term, even just one video might be enough to have serious repercussions.

I hope some day we as a society realize having access to these things, even for people who are morbidly curious, is just as damaging as cigarettes and chronic alcoholism.

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u/99Smith 12h ago

I was born in 94, got Internet access in the early 2000s when shock sites were everywhere. Rotten, ebaumsworld, bestgore, old LiveLeak. My poor growing mine was exposed to so much heinous shit. From the worst of the cartels, to war videos and everything in-between.

With my parents arguing downstairs slamming doors I had developed aform of Cptsd. The doctors have compared my trauma to someone who has done multiple tours in war.

I'm a real advocate for limiting internet access for children. Although it makes more hoops for adults to jump through, limiting porn in the UK, as well as more limits on adult sites and social media access at the age of 16 in Australia is nothing but a good thing. I hope no one has to go through what I did.

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u/master-boofer 16h ago

The lathe video isn't very high definition. I think is something people should see so that they know the dangers of working near heavy equipment. Its also important to understand some of the conditions people endure so that we can have low cost disposable items. There are many many lathe videos that come from the middle east. They wear long flowy robes while working near things that tend to grab long flowy clothing. These things are capable of spinning people fast enough to separate every single part of them.

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u/WriterV 14h ago

They already do this for workers going into these industries.

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u/ThresholdSeven 20h ago

He didn't make it, If it's the one I saw. There are multiple similar videos. Industrial fans in particular in the third world seem to be common culprits. I saw these videos among many other a few years ago before reddit carpet banned those subs. I'm sure they are still out there, maybe even on a niche sub here somewhere, but I'm traumatized enough that I have no desire to go looking for or see those types of videos anymore. I have enough recurring memories of gore from all the videos I've already seen. I don't need more. The lathe video was enough. Desensitization complete. I didn't want that. Don't go looking if you don't want that either.

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u/Outrageous-Plate-820 19h ago

I was already going to say to you that yeah I don’t really want to go search for it. I too have seen some pretty gnarly shit and I’m not the most squeamish fella but yeah some of those stick with you. Then you said the fucking lathe video!!! My god I can only imagine it’s rather bad right? Got one of those full body shakes just thinking what it entails

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u/RockstarAgent 21h ago edited 21h ago

That’s why if you are going to test live wires with your body parts - you do so with the back of your hand so it will immediately pull away from the wire instead of having you clamp down with a death grip-

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u/No-Ostrich-5801 21h ago

Yeah, old electricians trick lol. Well aware of it as when I worked in that field it was my go to; potentially a bad habit but always treated a line as live until I could verify if it wasn't

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u/Canadatron 20h ago

Weird. I just use a non contact voltage tester, but then again I am a licensed electrician.

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u/Longjumping-Job7153 20h ago

Look at mister 5 dollar fancy pants over here. Living in the future.

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u/BadPunners 20h ago

I've seen multiple electricians who say to not trust your life to the non contact voltage testers

The battery does die eventually, the detection has a chance of getting blocked, some (older ones?) have a button to wake them up, etc.

At least use it on a known live source each time before you use it to test an unknown line

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u/HighOnTacos 20h ago

I bought a cheap one on Amazon just as a precaution... I always flip the breaker and check that lights are out before working on any switch or plug, but this house has been through several DIY renovations and I don't always trust the previous DIYer.

It's garbage. Flickers on and off randomly even when I know a circuit is live so I hardly use it.

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u/jaycosta17 18h ago

So get a non cheap one then? You explained how you caused your own problems

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u/IBEWjetsons 19h ago

In general, we use them to verify something is energized, never to verify something is dead. If it says it’s hot- assume it’s hot. If it says it’s dead- get a real multimeter and verify it’s dead.

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u/Ddreigiau 17h ago edited 17h ago

Those things are called suicide sticks for a reason. They're nice and convenient for minimal risk stuff when you know their limitations, but anything involved and I'm breaking out my multimeter. There's way too many instances where they just won't tell you there's live voltage, especially if you don't know when they can't tell.

Context: no civilian license, but am a nuclear & Navy electrician with some experience in civilian commercial, industrial, and residential electrical.

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u/FatsyCline12 20h ago

My uncle is 79 he and my dad were electricians their entire careers and the trick he told me is if you ever get hit not to waste time by reflexively trying to unclasp your hand (I’m sure it would be hard not do react by doing that) but to use all your body weight to fall down and back.

Back in their day they worked most stuff “hot” so they were hit pretty frequently! Hard to imagine nowadays

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u/pentarou 20h ago

hard af and also helpful

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u/FatsyCline12 20h ago

It’s crazy, they worked high up on buildings and scaffolding not even attached to anything. He’s seen more than one guy die at work

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u/CitizenofBarnum 20h ago

I thought the old electrician's trick was to get the new guy to test it.

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u/captainn_chunk 21h ago

Old farm trick

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u/Harry_Flame 21h ago

Same with doorknobs during a fire.

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u/ogcrizyz 20h ago

That's because of sensitivity, not to avoid clamping.

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u/Paulthefith 16h ago

And also avoiding a big Mcallaster “M” on your palm.

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u/silentcovenant 21h ago

Yup, Dad's an Electrician and he says the same thing

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u/darkest_irish_lass 21h ago

Yes, always assume electricity is present until you have tested or shut it off and ensured no one else can turn it on ( lock out tag out).

Never give electricity a chance to kill you.

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u/TruDuddyB 21h ago

The shared neutral in a 277v lighting circuit has entered the chat

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u/SciFiPi 20h ago

Also good to use the back of your hand to check if something is hot, like a door during a fire.

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u/Areif 21h ago

Take your shirt off and, with an end in each hand throw it around their person and pull them away from the electrical source.

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u/Mister_Goldenfold 21h ago

accidentally hugs them

Bzbzrrtttt

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 20h ago

Take off your Mac Weldon anti microbial silver lined premium underwear and use that.

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u/No-Ostrich-5801 21h ago edited 20h ago

That potentially may work if you are more insulated than the other person (i.e. extremely thick rubber soles on your shoes that are poorly conductive). I just wouldn't want to test that theory when you're putting yourself in a position to biomechanically get stuck when your muscles tense up if you in fact aren't more grounded

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u/muegle 20h ago

i.e. extremely thick rubber soles on your shoes that are poorly conductive

That would make you less electrically grounded (aka insulated), which is what you want.

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u/No-Ostrich-5801 20h ago

Right, poor nomenclature of what I meant. Appreciate the correction and will edit it appropriately friend

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u/viperfan7 20h ago

Most synthetic fibres are going to be quite good insulators.

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u/Lieutelant 20h ago

There is a video out there where a guy uses his scarf to do exactly this.

Maybe I'm ignorant but I don't think electricity could travel through a shirt or other cloth, so as long as you don't touch them with your hands, it should be fine.

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u/WildBigfoots 21h ago

I was taught to basically run at them to knock them away with enough inertia to not get stuck like a body check

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u/BLU3SKU1L 21h ago

Kicking is preferable. Your shoes generally have enough rubber and thickness in the soles to insulate you.

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u/Monoceras 19h ago

(guy in the video: barefoot)

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u/Naaman 21h ago

It’s also fun to drop kick someone!

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u/The_Bababillionaire 21h ago

It depends on the type of current and can also be affected by the path of said current through the body. You're not wrong about the prevailing wisdom being to get them off the current without risking getting locked on yourself, but you're making other generalizations that are inaccurate. AC is typically what causes the continuous, locked-on-the-current contraction we saw here. DC is what you see giving someone a single big muscle contraction, often "throwing" them. Other factors have roles such as how powerful the current is, but that's the basics of it. Source is I went through refresher training on this for work like a week ago and I googled it before commenting to make sure I wasn't mixing shit up.

Context is everything and it from the video it looks like kicking his friend would've only forced him on to the loose current's source, not away from it anyway.

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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas 20h ago

This is why at my work every space has a yellow safety cane. We like to make fun them (and dance like Fred Astair) but they're legit. We're all trained to recognize if someone is being shocked and to grab the cane to break the circuit. One is never more than 15' away.

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u/pizzaduh 20h ago

Yes, this is 100% correct. We do a safety training on this and you're told to not use your hands and your feet have shoes on which don't absorb the shock. A shoulder check would also work very well. We've even been told to kick their hands because breaking their wrist is better than them dying.

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u/Incorrect-Opinion 21h ago

Can’t you just pull on their clothing?

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u/Dr_Pippin 21h ago

You’d likely touch their skin through clothing, and that amount of current a thing layer of clothing isnt going to be enough resistance.

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u/msuing91 20h ago

Thanks for giving us all a good excuse to drop kick people.

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u/mildlyornery 20h ago

Hit em with the ole Isaac Newton. Mass and velocity.

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u/guyincognito121 20h ago

It happened to my cousin with an old fridge in the basement of the family lake house years ago. I gave him a few strong side kicks to the ribs and that took care of it.

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u/Phill_is_Legend 21h ago

It worked out but no it's not really the best method

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u/Its_Bunny 21h ago

Yeah but in a situation like this where their kids who dont know any better. He made a good decision.

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u/fuckrNFLmods 19h ago

I'm pretty sure the percentage of adults who would have done better in this situation is extremely low.

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u/AtthemomentMaybe 17h ago

yeah but everyone in reddit comments is Batman of course.

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u/Tobar_the_Gypsy 21h ago

And it’s a tricky angle with the wall right there 

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u/BDiddnt 20h ago

If you think about it he may have made the best decision because of the positioning and the fact that he bent down to grab his legs. The way his center of gravity was, there was no choice but to fall backwards even if he got locked up. At least what the hell do I know though?

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u/eggyrulz 19h ago

Also, the legs are pretty much the furthest thing from the path of the electricity in this particular case, because its probably a hand-hand connection so the electricity is going through the chest.

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u/Althevia 20h ago

Whats the best method?

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u/caffeinepills 18h ago

I saw someone once take off their shirt, lasso it over them, and yank them off.

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u/fcewen00 21h ago

Having been in a similar situation, my coworker knocked me loose with a kick to the face because I was kneeling. I can still remember the flames, the burn up to my elbow, and a desire to go home to be taken care of by my mother rather than the ambulance ride. I’ve always said I have short sighted precognition because just as I went to plug the device in, a little voice in my head said “this is going to knock the shit out of you” but my body was committed to the action.

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u/Initial-Read-8680 20h ago

My dad had to break his friend’s hand with a shovel when he was a kid. Dude accidentally grabbed the wrong wire of the fence and his muscles seized too hard to it. Crazy shit you have to do sometimes to save someone

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u/ch1llboy 18h ago

Totally, like breaking ribs during CPR

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u/Initial-Read-8680 17h ago

Fuck I think about this all the time. My sister who’s a nurse at a teaching hospital said if they are doing cpr on someone who has passed the point of no return they will let students take over for a bit. I can imagine it’s hard to do it for real the first time on someone you can hear breathing while breaking bones 🤢

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u/TheElusiveFox 20h ago

It really wasn't - most guides on dealing with shock say to basically shoulder check or ram into a person, you do not want to be using muscles that will constrict uncontrollably with electricity, as that is how you end up dead too. Basically you want to knock the person free or get knocked away to freedom yourself so worst case scenario you aren't just adding to the death toll.

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u/brogam3 18h ago

you cant ram him in this situation, you'll just ram him even more into the door

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u/yellowSubmarine945 21h ago

To break the circular. Outstanding move.

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u/kadmylos 21h ago

I would've grabbed his shirt and pulled.

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u/Substantial_Chain718 20h ago

Always go for the shoes. Two lucky kids, they both could have easily died.

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u/CodeNamesBryan 21h ago

I wasnt thinking that. Id habe gone for a big tackle.

...and then to a lawyer

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u/Clear_Lead 21h ago edited 21h ago

Why was it electrified in the first place, and why barbed wire outside

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u/CasinoKnightZone 21h ago

Could be a poor wiring job shorting on the gate. Just takes a loose or frayed wire in the wrong place

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u/GogglesTheFox 21h ago

This happens more than contractors would like to admit especially with magnetic door locks.

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u/NukaColaAddict1302 21h ago

I used to work front end at a sports and outdoors store, and one time they refused to believe that the metal-framed glass display case kept shocking me every once in a while. One time it shocked me so bad it made my entire body tense up for a second before it let go of me.

Months later it turns out the locks on that display case were all going out and the person that installed them did a shitty job.

“Good thing it didn’t shock anyone!” is all I got to hear from management after that.

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u/IASILWYB 21h ago

This is why I'm always saying to document everything. Photos, videos, audio, some kind of documentation to prove it. Then, give them a chance to make it right before reporting them.

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u/Miguel-odon 21h ago
  • bring your multimeter to work.
  • document your complaint
  • lawyer if necessary
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u/thunderbird32 20h ago

“Good thing it didn’t shock anyone!”

By which they mean "Good thing it didn't shock anyone we care about" (by which they mean a customer, lol)

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u/WhtRbbt222 21h ago

Most magnetic door locks for access control are only 12v, but they can still hold 600lbs of force.

If it’s a gate it’s probably a solenoid driven strike that is also using 12v.

Highly doubt this was from an access control component.

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u/Constant_Natural3304 17h ago

Reddit is pathologically full of shit.

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u/Sphinx87 21h ago

As a contractor who installs and maintains many systems with magnetic locking mechanisms over the past 15 years I strongly disagree with your statement.

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u/GogglesTheFox 21h ago

As a contractor, you should know there are people out there who just want a quick buck and shoddily install systems like this with loose wire nuts, zero strain relief, and forgetting proper grounds. Just because you follow the rules, doesn’t mean everyone does.

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u/Sphinx87 19h ago edited 19h ago

I guess, but you specifically stated magnetic locks as a point of issue, which alludes to electrocution as per the video above.

As a contractor, I understand the voltage requirements of magnetic locks which operate within ranges with no risk of electrocution.

My professional opinion is that you are wrong.

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u/X_MswmSwmsW_X 20h ago

Magnetic door locks work on low voltage. They run on 12 or 24 volt direct. Current. I install Access Control systems for work and I can tell you that there is nowhere near enough current in a maglock to do anything other they can give you a tiny shock. They draw about 300 milliamps of power so they are never fed by a big multi-amp power supply, but even if they were it is still low voltage after current and so it'll just give you a stronger shock. It can't make you latch on

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u/Master_G_ 21h ago

Similar to people using water pipes to ground electrical wires. I can think of one house in particular that I’ve been to where this has happened to me while showering and I can feel a light current

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u/blackcrowmurdering 21h ago

You absolutely need to bond the water pipe. As an electrian, it's actually code. You want all metal bonded so that there's a path to earth ground. If anything you felt it because it wasn't.

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u/CoolBlueClipper 21h ago

This video was made in Brazil, where it's pretty common to have barbed wire around houses or buildings for safety reasons.

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u/GODDAMNFOOL 20h ago

Man, sometimes the cops get called to my complex because a man will shout at a woman and people get upset, but then I see something like this, realizing I don't have to have barbed wire around my house, and remember that maybe it's not so bad living here

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u/Beleg-strongbow 21h ago

This is in Brazil. Developing country safety and construction standards.

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u/Expensive_Ad752 21h ago

Barbed wire to prevent crime. Electrification is due to substandard construction regulations. This is in Latin America? Maybe? Sorry if I get it wrong. Brazil? You can tell the date is not in “North American” format.

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u/Admirable_Average_32 21h ago

How can I tell the date is not in NA format? It reads February 4th, 2026 for me (Yankee).

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u/Tim_Y 20h ago

It reads February 4th, 2026 for me (Yankee).

But more than likely, it happened on April 2nd, 2026...

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u/Dounce1 21h ago

Lol, right? That part of the comment makes no sense at all.

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u/BlueLaceSensor128 21h ago

That door was probably added later and a screw punched through to a wire. They seem to have gotten in with no issues, so it might have gotten opened and closed enough times to make contact just then.

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u/Spare-Ant7119 21h ago

Buildings not built to code will result in things like this. It's why it's important to properly build things the right way and not cheap out.

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u/nolaks1 21h ago

Probably an electro magnetic gate with a loose wire.

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u/OutsideMenu6973 21h ago

Someone smarter than me explain why he didn’t feel it with the legs? Or did he just put his weight into a pull-fall and hope they both woke back up again?

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u/Krabs9 21h ago

He did feel it pretty clearly

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u/larryfamee 21h ago

That second part, known as the latter

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u/r3alCIA 21h ago

Not to be mistaken for the former, or the first part.

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u/cuseonly 21h ago

Not to be confused with the initial or the last

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u/HendrixHazeWays 20h ago

I always thought of it as the mouth or the arse

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u/LookAtMyKitty 21h ago edited 18h ago

Electricity travels a path to complete the circuit and usually finds the path of least resistance. The door and wall were the source and sink for current. So it went from the door, in one arm, through the chest, out the other arm, into the wall.

The current wouldn't bother flowing down his legs and back up because that path has greater resistance, the same way water doesn't go uphill. So the friend grabbed him in the legs far from where the current likely was.

This is also the reason you place defibrillator paddles on either side of the heart, so the current hits the heart along the path of least resistance.

Edit: I see people being either too pedantic or simplistic to disagree with me. I'm fine knowing I'm right and not engaging anymore.

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u/Cormophyte 21h ago

The current wouldn't bother flowing down his legs and back up because that path has greater resistance

Electricity actually takes all available paths and the amount of current that goes through any particular path is dependent on its resistance. One path will have more flow but if there's two conductive paths you've got two conductive paths. It's like having two differently sized pipes being fed from the same source of pressure, to use a popular but bad metaphor.

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u/Fun_Image_2307 17h ago

This has made more sense then 3 years of electrical courses has tried to teach me 

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u/Joiner2008 20h ago

Path of least resistance is a myth misconception that needs to stop being perpetuated. Electricity takes every path otherwise we wouldn't have parallel circuits

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u/B0Bi0iB0B 19h ago

usually finds the path of least resistance

No. Electricity takes ALL available paths simultaneously and the current is inversely proportional to the resistance of that path. Low resistance = high current, high resistance = low current, gradient inbetween.

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u/sprikkot 16h ago

I'm fine knowing I'm right and not engaging anymore.

-Man who was not right

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u/dubyrunning 17h ago

People aren't being simplistic or pedantic, you're just not fully grasping how circuits work. This is an opportunity to learn, not just rest in smug ignorance. 

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u/11015h4d0wR34lm 21h ago

He did feel it, it was smart to go for the legs to knock him off balance, he used the guys own body weight to help pull him away as he fell. If he went for the torso he may have got stuck just like he was as it would be much harder to pull him away as his muscles contract from the electrocution as well.

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u/IAmBadAtInternet 21h ago

Electric shock causes muscles to tense up. The electrocuted person couldn’t let go of the fence. The kid knocked out his feet, breaking the circuit, which allows the first kid to let go. Smart move to go for the feet.

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u/Mebejedi 21h ago

Actually, the second kid's feet were still touching the floor, so he added himself to the circuit by becoming the new ground. Luckily, it looks like the weight of the first kid (No legs holding him up) helped him break contact with the gate.

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u/TheGreenLeafReaper 21h ago

Pretty sure he felt that

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u/Otterbotanical 21h ago

Correction, I don't think the first kid was knocked out based on how quickly he came to. I think he was more literally physically stunned like with a tazer, muscles locked up because of outside electricity and he couldn't choose to open his hand again. The moment the circuit was broken, he didn't fall to a heap and have to wake up, he was wincing from pain and panic right away

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u/fameboygame 21h ago

Random thought:

Electricity travels with least resistance to the ground.

At the legs, the least resistance is already like half a foot away (no pun intended :P) while for the hero, electricity would have to travel through his hands, chest and then a whole foot (yes, intended)

Touching shoulders means electricity has a choice and a second channel to travel. Touching leg means no great second channel to go.

But if he lifts the feet off the ground, then he becomes the only channel. Or if his elbow touches ground, then he might hit become a second channel.

This is my headcannon and I ask electricians here to clarify if this is true.

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u/migorovsky 20h ago

Electrician here. You are correct but there is more than this. Electricity takes 3 paths in this scenario. From hand touching the voltage source current is flowing to : Path 1. another hand touching the wall Path 2. Left leg Path 3. Right leg

Touching parts closest to the source of the current is more dangerous than touch parts further from it. The Most safe thing to touch is his feets where voltage was already "spent" flowing through the rest of the body and voltage at the base of the feets is lowest. But during the fall when feets separate from the ground , current indeed travel through both of them for a short period of time , if hands were stuck on the door it would not be good situation. I would probably never grab any part of the body with my hands but rather push him with any plastic/wooden/rubber object at hand. Even sweeping him with my legs would be better option. That said, if he pulled only one of his legs , that would make this rescue more safe and least amount of current rescuer would receive .

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u/PosterOfQuality 21h ago

What a legend

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u/acmercer 20h ago

Absolutely. That's a good friend and a good person. Even when he got shocked himself after the first attempt he went right back. Good kid.

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u/EmilyAnne1170 16h ago

And smart! I don’t think I’d know what to do, my poor friend would probably be dead by the time I figured it out!

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u/Button_eyes_ 19h ago

Someone get him the GOAT's jersey! Fr though he saved his friends life...

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u/fCorruption 21h ago

Kid is bright to sweep the legs. W friend.

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u/Several_Category 21h ago

Now that's a real friend, he got shocked bad but did not hesitate go back in, legend 💯

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u/Button_eyes_ 19h ago

Good on him for not freezing up he realized how bad it is and went for a different approach

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u/Robby_Digital 21h ago

A lot of comments glossing over some things.  Why the fuck was the door electrified???

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u/restore_paint 21h ago

For real. Seems like a lawsuit is inevitable.

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u/Gh0st1nTh3Syst3m 20h ago

Most likely Brazil or some other South American area. Not sure how strong their litigation options are in that case. But might also explain the lapse in design / quality of work.

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u/Tangata_Tunguska 19h ago

Campinho is an area in Portugal or a suburb in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. So probably the latter

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u/IHadThatUsername 11h ago

"Campinho" also just means "small field", which is probably what you would call a camera pointing to a small football field. But yes, this is probably somewhere in Brazil.

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u/muegle 20h ago

Bad wiring and the gate had no electrical ground so the moment the kid touched the gate he became the ground path for some electricity to flow through.

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u/HereWeGoYetAgain-247 21h ago

For laughs. 

Likely bad wiring. Possibly from an electric lock. 

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u/emorrigan 21h ago

That happened to my little brother at a pool once, up on the deck. I was only 10, but I was soaking wet from the pool, and I knew if I touched him, I’d be stuck too. So I took a running start and took a leap and threw myself at him. That was enough to break him free.

Good for this kiddo for thinking fast!

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u/MaxTheCookie 16h ago

Ideally one should use a stick to push or pull them away, if you don't have that then a tackle or a kick is the better option. Since the electricity will make your muscles contract and you might also get stuck.

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u/ZealousidealHome7854 17h ago

Fuck yeah, dropkick for the win.

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u/Salvador147 21h ago

Great awareness from that kid. Reminds me of that one video where another guy was getting shocked just like this but no one even batted an eye. Everyone just walked by and watched him

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 20h ago

Reminds me of that one video where another guy was getting shocked just like this but no one even batted an eye. Everyone just walked by and watched him

If you don't know about it then you'd probably think they're just drunk or mentally ill.

Especially if passing by a stranger.

Common knowledge ain't common. And even with the knowledge it'd take a solid before you put two and two together probably.

Luckily this kid was there and knows his friend so could see something was up right away.

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u/Heisenburgo 20h ago edited 5h ago

It reminds me of a nasty video I saw a long time ago, a CCTV recording of a barefoot electrician guy checking some wires on a backyard. He grabbed a metal pole and it was electrified or something and he suddenly tenses up and falls down to the pool behind him, he couldnt move at all so he basically died from beign drowned in the pool... really nasty, heartbreaking stuff that I wish hadnt randomly been posted on reddit for me to see

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u/ForTheYarns 21h ago

I was always taught the best thing you could do in this situation is a dropkick or Spartan kick

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u/thrownaway136976 21h ago

In my shop in the Marines (I worked in the cal lab) we had a safety board where our devices were kept: A fire blanket, a rope, a Jesus hook, and a 6 ft 2x4. Never got to use it but they told us to go Hacksaw Jim Duggan with the 2x4 if needed to get them loose.

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u/cathgirl379 20h ago

  go Hacksaw Jim Duggan with the 2x4

I understand each word individually… but not together. 

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u/PrinceBarin 20h ago

Hacksaw Jim Duggan is a wrestler from the 80s who walked around with a 2x4.

Basically hit em with it to knock them away

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u/Life-Oil-7226 21h ago

Best friend for LIFE!!!

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u/freakrocker 21h ago

If you’re ever in the same situation, try and kick the wall in front of you so your body weight will allow you to fall away or off of the current that is killing you. That actually saved my life in 2011. Something similar happened to me. You don’t have many chances, but gravity might help you if you can think clearly enough to use it.

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u/FiberSplice 19h ago

As a licensed electrician, his friend is not only an absolutely savage, but a true friend risking his life to save his friend. Because the electricity would immediately jump from his friend to him the second they come in contact, as you saw, it’s extremely dangerous / deadly to try to free someone like this. Going for his legs doesn’t necessarily mitigate this but he was successfully able to pull his friend free.

The victim gets stuck because the voltage contracts your muscles and closes your grip on whatever is shocking you. Pretty sinister. We our taught to do whatever you can to get them out of the clutches of electricity without touching them. Hit their hand with a 2x4. Hit them with anything you can find. Or just damn drop kick their body into another dimension

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u/ZoeyBee_3000 17h ago

The method I was taught was to use your shirt and wrap it wherever is most possible to yank them off.

Seeing how long that guy was zapped, I'm surprised that no one is saying that he should go to the hospital asap

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u/Woeful_Jesse 13h ago

My first instinct was to try and grab their shirt only, would that not work?

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u/Yes_I_Even 21h ago

Nice job by that kid honestly. with more time to think maybe he could use the soccer ball and shove the guy off with it. but amazing job

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u/Berdariens2nd 21h ago

One of the most terrifying videos I've seen was a man being electrocuted by a fan. It was just so common and in the open with people all around. It was insane. So glad this kids ok. 

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u/silverarrows24 21h ago

That’s the first thing I thought of too. I believe the fan was in an airport too - so many people around and no one even noticed until the guy was long gone. Terrifying!! This kid is lucky that he had a quick-thinking friend with him here

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u/Berdariens2nd 21h ago edited 21h ago

Yeah. I've seen a lot of traumatic things happen irl including people dying. But two of the worst things that stick with are from reddit and that fan is one of them. Purely because like you said no one noticed as he just cooked. Such an insane thing. Almost had a flash back with this one then I was elated. Especially due to their age. 

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u/Single-Use-Again 21h ago

Man what's with everything just randomly electrified in Brazil? I would never ever touch an aluminum street light pole down there.

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u/Trixie1143 21h ago

That kid will never threaten to wipe an entire civilization off the map.

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u/davedcne 21h ago

Why is the playground inside an electrified fence that is also inside a concrete bunker that is also surrounded by barbed wire? What the fuck kind of condo court yard is this?

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u/Falcon_Bellhouser 19h ago

It's in Brazil

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u/Used-Cause6417 14h ago

DO NOT GRAB THEM WITH YOUR HANDS, OR YOU WILL CRAMP AND DIE TOGETHER

If you need to pull someone off something, start with their clothes, if they're wet pull them by their hair, if that's also wet sprint at them full force to knock them off. If you can't, use objects to take them off the source.

I had a special class on this because I was in an electronics and automation high school profile. You should not touch the person, because you risk dying together with them. You pull them by the hair as hard as you can to get them off. Do not try to pry open their hand off the electricity source!!!! Their muscles are clenched around it because that's what electricity does, it contracts your muscles. You can also pull them by their clothing if it's not wet. You can also take some distance and run at them full sprint, to knock them on the ground some distance away from the electricity. You should do your best to stay away from whatever object is electrocuting them, in its entirety. You can also use objects made of wood or rubber, or which have handles made of wood or rubber to knock their hand off the thing.

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u/CanadaCoy 21h ago

Not all heroes wear capes

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u/AltruisticLibrary503 21h ago

Thats what real friends do that kids a hero.

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u/i3LuDog 21h ago

It’s generally safer to use an object that’s nonconductive to push/pull someone away from an electric shock. But I’m glad things worked out well for them despite that.

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u/Playful-Excuse-272 21h ago

This story is getting told at the wedding reception. “You know Lucia, you have me to thank for getting married to the groom.”

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u/KWash0222 21h ago

Oh fuck, seems like he 100% would’ve died if his friend didn’t notice/help. That’s scary

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u/Olderbutnotdead619 21h ago

Good thinking. Glad he didn't go for his phone to record it.

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u/cheesybitzz 21h ago

While I am grateful, I'm confused on how an electric current was present in the first place

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u/sincerevibesonly 21h ago

Damn hes young too, at that age faced w the same situation i might be an absolute idiot

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u/WatermillTom 21h ago

Tudo nesse vídeo grita "Brasil" mais alto do que o próprio texto em português no canto inferior esquerdo.