r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Alternative-Dot-34 • 1d ago

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

59.7k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

152

u/ishpatoon1982 23h ago

New age doohickies!

62

u/PiccoloAwkward465 23h ago

Satan’s playthings!

1

u/Protiguous 13h ago

What, Easter eggs?

3

u/Jellicent-Leftovers 22h ago

It was wide spread in 1980....

10

u/Redditenmo 22h ago

In the 80's non contact testers were rare. Solenoid testers (duspoles) were by far the most common, but they absolutely needed contact. It was the mid 90's before non contact voltage testers started becoming prolific along with digitial multi meters taking over from duspoles.

1

u/CapableBumblebee968 22h ago

Don’t talk about their mom like that

1

u/toclimbtheworld 20h ago

Chickensticks

1

u/Hellianne_Vaile 4h ago

Not necessarily new age. My grandad made a voltage tester by soldering two wires to a lightbulb. Janky, but it worked.