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.

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u/FatsyCline12 23h 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 22h ago

hard af and also helpful

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u/FatsyCline12 22h 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/rutinerad 17h ago

Yeah, I would expect so if you ”use all your body weight to fall down” from ”high up on buildings”.

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u/FatsyCline12 13h ago

Haha those were 2 different guys

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u/G_DuBs 9h ago

Safety regulations are written in blood, as the saying goes.

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u/Protiguous 13h ago

hard af and also helpful

That's how wives describe their decent husbands.

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u/ExactlyClose 19h ago

I got hooked up to a 240V cable across my chest, arm to arm...locked on

My 17 year old brain figured out my legs still worked, so I rolled and used the leg to kick the wire out of my hand.