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Originally Posted by vwnate1
Sorry Tom ! .
A 'tweaker' is a meth user .
Pulling the grounding stakes can kill you because they're necessary to prevent the high voltage from flashing over to any convenient ground path, like say a nice juicy Human who's got his hand on one half of the ground path....
Part of my training was to watch DWP safety videos of people getting electrocuted whilst working and also interviews with the unlucky few who survived .
For those not familiar with how it works, when you're electrocuted with high voltage, the current goes right through your skin & muscles then travels through your bones to wherever it comes out again, cooking the marrow in your bones as it goes along .
High voltage is serious stuff, why I don't even like fooling with the electricity in my house .
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I read about a guy in Seattle, who had previously been an electrician at SeaTac. One day he did something wrong with high voltage in a tunnel, and lost both of his arms.
I might have encountered the guy years later, I didn’t ask him. I was driving cab one night and picked up a guy with no arms. He pulled the money out of his wallet with his toes.
Are those grounding stakes made of copper or brass? Tweakers, as I’m sure you know are loopy for copper.