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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
10. Why the fuck did you bear hug a multi million volt transformer? Why are you still alive?
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I was home from the Army and out with some buddies at a party. Behind the house we were partying at was a power substation. The big electrical plant looking things that supply electricity to a whole area of town. You see them surrounded by fencing with barbed wire, "DANGER: HIGH VOLTAGE" and "KEEP OUT" signs. Something like this
I decided to climb the fence and scale to the top of the scaffold support structure and then proceeded to bear hug a high voltage transformer. It shocked me with about 100x the voltage of a regular power line, and luckily it blew me off backwards instead of killing me.
When I woke up hours later, I was in the burn unit surrounded by nurses and doctors covered in white, tending to the 3rd degree burns over most of my chest and arms. I was pumped full of morphine and covered in bandages for about a week, then spent another few days before they sent me home for another month of recovery.
Undoubtedly it was the most physically painful and by far the dumbest thing I've done in my entire life, but what doesn't kill you just makes you stronger.