Yeah, when I replace an outlet or hang a ceiling light/fan, first thing I do is find and kill the appropriate breaker. Can’t accidentally flip it back on unlike a wall switch.
This is the way. It is much safer to kill the breaker. You lose whatever else is on the same circuit, but you're doing electrical works. You won't need them.
FYI electricity is still live at the outlet even if the switch is off.
The switch just breaks the circuit, but there is power on hot lead (black wire).
If you ground that black wire or give it a path to the neutral (white) the circuit will complete (close / short) and you will get shocked or electrocuted.
That's what this guy did.
I have also run into a greater than zero number of times some jackass switched the neutral instead of the hot, so “turning off the switch” meant you had a live wire running to a broken neutral to turn off the lights.
There were times while living in that house I seriously considered tracking down the former owner to ask WTF they were thinking.
Not a good practice. ALWAYS kill at the breaker box. ALAWAYS use a tester to make sure no current is present (they're not expensive). Leave nothing to chance as much as you can with electricity. But, that's just my opinion.
The last time I had an electrician in to do work I asked if he needed me to shut things down inside so he could cut the power. He was installing a new 240 line. He said "nah, I work live all the time. If it bites me I'll just bite it back"
Pro tip, anytime anybody on this planet is doing something, while the entire time flinching away from it, there can only ever be one outcome. Any additional wisdom is not even needed here.
In response to this accident, a new patent for a “portable light source” was filed. Apparently the device is to be called a “flashlight”. The company spokesperson said they will be available everywhere… yesterday 👍
Up next:
Scientists are testing out a new antibiotic to address the brain rot epidemic.
If so, wild to just let it play out. I have a friend whose fiancé died a couple years ago doing home renovations on their new place because of improperly handling a live wire
Literally as a homeowner renovating even the ppl at Lowe’s had the audacity to treat me like I didn’t deserve a finished house bc I didn’t call it “spackle” and just asked for drywall supplies
This is a total assumption, but in regards to the subset of tradespeople that are as you described, maybe it's an inferiority complex thing?
There is a weird notion that some people have that "higher education" makes you better than others. Afaik it's not prevalent anymore, but some people still have that sentiment in their bones.
Likewise, that old notion also birth a resentment from the tradesfolk. That "those yuppie college folk think they're better than everyone". That also shouldn't be a thing, but a lot of the older generation may still harbor this thought.
One form that kinda resentment can manifest is actually feeling inferior. And one iteration THAT can evolve to is the ol "I was hurt so I will hurt". As in, they take on the role of the "pompous asshole, gatekeepers knowledge and belittling anyone that doesn't know.
My dad is an engineer born in the 50’s and despite what he says, he absolutely has an “I know better than tradesmen because I went to college” attitude.
I’m also an engineer, but I and many from my generation have the attitude of “school taught us the math and the why, but didn’t teach us the how” and we pretty much all want to go spend time with tradesmen so we can learn how things are actually built.
I'm an engineer and as I was reading the guy's comment I was thinking this is pretty prevalent in engineering. Then I looked down and see your comment. Yeah, I'm glad it's different these days. I had to go work for myself because of all that attitude.
Yeah, it was pretty wild. She and I used to be relatively close before Covid and have a lot of mutual friends. Never met the guy myself, but I hear that he was a really stand up dude. See her a couple times a year still and she hasn’t been the same since, honestly.
We don't know the before tho. If I see someone about to do something stupid, I try to warn them and they dismiss me because they think they know better or just think being older makes them an authority, then I 1000% would let it play out and pull out my camera and start filming their stupidity. At that point it is self inflicted. Not my job or problem if I already tried to warn them.
While renovating my own house I wired all the plug circuits in such a way that it meant a certain fire on each one until my family friend informed me so😅
I am very sorry to hear that but at the same time I can’t understand why you would do you own electrical work when you don’t know anything about electronics. It’s like getting in a car when you don’t have your license… I will never understand it.
Man if so, step in or attempt to say something. You got no idea what other shoddy crap is in that building and you may prevent a single death if not others.
Worst case scenario you get kicked out and got a free meal before hazard ensues and people are hurt.
I understand sometimes you have to stay in your lane but we also gotta help each other out a bit here when we can and not just film people falling down. You see someone down you give them the hand, not the foot.
Having accidentally discharged a sizable capacitor across my hands, I can assure you that as far as he knows, he did get transported into another dimension. I'm not sure how long I was out, but when I came to, I was slumped in the corner on the other side of the room. I consider myself lucky that I was transported back to this plane.
Fun fact, the blast itself doesn’t propel you, it’s your own muscles! So technically you are capable of throwing your body across a room with your own strength
Yeah, the flash looks like an explosion, but there’s no real concussive force behind it. I think I pushed myself back a bit, then stumbled the rest of the way. Maybe. I really have no recollection, I just had to piece together the facts: awakened on the floor seeing stars, numb/aching arms and hands, a tiny black hole in my right thumb that smelled like burning flesh, studio strobe innards scattered about the room. “Oh yeah I was trying to fix that!”
If we’re going the food route, the smell reminds me more of when you scrape the grates of a BBQ grill clean. There was the electrocution burn, and the time a doctor had to cauterize a bad cut on my hand to get the bleeding to stop. Both smelled like old, burned BBQ to me.
I did this, my dad swore he flipped the breaker off. He was standing next to me and I specifically asked, you killed the breaker right? and he said yes.. so I snipped the wire.
it did exactly this and it melted my pliers. Like a pea sized hole where the pliers met the wire.
thankfully they were insulated pliers, didn't hurt, didn't get shocked, but someone shit in my pants
Get a non-contact voltage tester. Every house I’ve lived in the person who labeled the breaker panel was, outside of major appliances with their own run, just naming rooms in the house that may or may not actually be on that breaker.
I'm just wondering how the rest of you relationship with your dad went after this. If someone I knew was that careless with my life, I wouldn't trust them around anything I cared about from then on, including my life, but also, spouse, kids, cars, houses.
FYI if this ever happens to you, go to a hospital immediately. It may not kill you at that moment, but having an severe electric shock can damage the heart enough to stop it hours later.
And this is why humanity blows. Everyone watching knows this is dangerous AF, should not be happening. Not one person piping up to stop him in his tracks.
Someone (or multiple people) might have spoken up before filming started. Shocked Guy might have been a hard-headed know-it-all and insisted on cutting the wire anyway, despite being warned. Perhaps that's why someone started filming in the first place.
I will say in everyone's defense, that my first thought was "oh that cannot be safe". However, I am also not and electrician. I dont know for sure what is and isnt safe. Ive never had to cut a wire before. For all I know, it is safe ans he knows what he's doing. And im not going to get myself called a Karen for suggesting maybe he not do that because it might not be safe 🤷♀️
Unless its a critical system turn the goddamn breaker off. If you absolutely have to do it live the you cut the wires one at a time and then cap them. Hot, neutral ground. Then when re-installing , ground, neutral, hot.
$10 says this is the owner who gave a task to someone smarter than him, that guy said shut the electricity off first, boss didn't want to lose an hour of profit, does it himself, ends up in hospital.
Business degrees will bring us back into the throes of Darwinism and I am here for it.
I mean, probably not cool to just let it happen, but I guess with the ladder he was on he was definitely going to fall before he locked in for a lethal dose
This is why we end up with so many rules about what we can and cannot do. For heavens sake, turn the power off before doing any electrical work. Might save a life. Yours.
PS. Seeing as the camera person guessed or knew what was going to happen why didn’t he stop this or does he like seeing someone win a Darwin Award? /s
Wait, wait, wait: I want to make sure that I understand what we all just watched:
The man on the ladder was cutting through a hot electrical cord with combination pliers which simply connected the two internal wires and severely shocked the man?
And, at the same time, there are two men at a table, watching this, recording it, but not warning the man of the danger?
Considering the lights are still on, the guy maybe thought he switched off this circuit. I mean, he clearly short circuited something so the breaker should have done its job. If those lights are on the same circuit they should not be on any longer.
Why didn’t he turn off the electricity first? I’m dumb and even I know that
What do you mean? Isn’t this how you turn the electricity off?
Yea, that's true. But if that circuit powers a light and that light circuit is turned on all you have to do is turn it off.
Not a great practice, especially when other people are present who might walk in and flip the switch out of habit.
Yeah, when I replace an outlet or hang a ceiling light/fan, first thing I do is find and kill the appropriate breaker. Can’t accidentally flip it back on unlike a wall switch.
This is the way. It is much safer to kill the breaker. You lose whatever else is on the same circuit, but you're doing electrical works. You won't need them.
FYI electricity is still live at the outlet even if the switch is off.
The switch just breaks the circuit, but there is power on hot lead (black wire).
If you ground that black wire or give it a path to the neutral (white) the circuit will complete (close / short) and you will get shocked or electrocuted.
That's what this guy did.
The breaker shuts off all power on the circuit.
This guy def cut all 3 wires at the same time.
Very true. I did not think to add that clarification/important point in my initial comment.
I have also run into a greater than zero number of times some jackass switched the neutral instead of the hot, so “turning off the switch” meant you had a live wire running to a broken neutral to turn off the lights.
There were times while living in that house I seriously considered tracking down the former owner to ask WTF they were thinking.
See, this is why god made apprentices to stand guard.
I 100% agree. Still better than cutting the live wire though.
I bet you are pretty sly…
For a white guy
This is how you find the breaker. Now you just gotta look for the red one.
You don’t even have to open up the fuse box, just hit the switch.
Please stop upvoting this.
Power is still live on the circuit. The black wire is hot. The white wire is neutral and returns power to the fuse box when the switch is closed.
If you inadvertently short the black to white or ground the circuit is now running through your tool or you.
That's what this guy did.
The switch being off or on at the wall doesn't matter if you short the circuit.
What if it's a 3-way switch?
One of them will still kill power to the light. I don’t recommend this though because somebody can just walk in and hit one of them.
Maybe someone removed his lockout tag out device.
Which in this case I assume was a piece of clear scotch tape
Not a good practice. ALWAYS kill at the breaker box. ALAWAYS use a tester to make sure no current is present (they're not expensive). Leave nothing to chance as much as you can with electricity. But, that's just my opinion.
Stupid
That would hurt profits.
Well listen to triple digits over here.
Apparently, age doesn’t make you smarter. He’s so dumb that when he was electrocuted, no one reacted. Ralph is being Ralph, I guess.
The guy video taping clearly knew what was going to happen.
Magic is about to occur anytime there’s that much flinching.
Some part of him knew..
If they had to cut it live (why tho), I'm sure there was a better way...
Get a katana and put like 6 condoms on each hand.
I think osha changed it to 7 each this year.
What a hassle
I'm an electrician and this is definitely the correct way.
I’m not and I trust your judgement
The last time I had an electrician in to do work I asked if he needed me to shut things down inside so he could cut the power. He was installing a new 240 line. He said "nah, I work live all the time. If it bites me I'll just bite it back"
If there was somehow a reason to cut it live, it still shouldn't be done with customers present.
They didn't even turn off the switch, never mind the breaker.
Pro tip, anytime anybody on this planet is doing something, while the entire time flinching away from it, there can only ever be one outcome. Any additional wisdom is not even needed here.
Safety squints first
Yeah, pretty obvious outcome considering all the lights are on.
We tried turning the power off, but he couldn't see what he was doing. Literally no other way to do this but with the lights on.
In response to this accident, a new patent for a “portable light source” was filed. Apparently the device is to be called a “flashlight”. The company spokesperson said they will be available everywhere… yesterday 👍
Up next:
Scientists are testing out a new antibiotic to address the brain rot epidemic.
Underrated comment of the year.
If so, wild to just let it play out. I have a friend whose fiancé died a couple years ago doing home renovations on their new place because of improperly handling a live wire
Tradespeople are fucking assholes to anyone who looks like they might not have a trillion years of experience.
Source: am one, am regularly thanked by new hires for being so much more forgiving than everybody else
Literally as a homeowner renovating even the ppl at Lowe’s had the audacity to treat me like I didn’t deserve a finished house bc I didn’t call it “spackle” and just asked for drywall supplies
Look, every tradesman worth his salt has welded a pair of klines together at least once. (Ive done it twice in the last 24 years in the trades)
But also if some guy on a ladder pulls out that giant pair of end nippers while the lights are on, you know its gonna be a good show.
This is a total assumption, but in regards to the subset of tradespeople that are as you described, maybe it's an inferiority complex thing?
There is a weird notion that some people have that "higher education" makes you better than others. Afaik it's not prevalent anymore, but some people still have that sentiment in their bones.
Likewise, that old notion also birth a resentment from the tradesfolk. That "those yuppie college folk think they're better than everyone". That also shouldn't be a thing, but a lot of the older generation may still harbor this thought.
One form that kinda resentment can manifest is actually feeling inferior. And one iteration THAT can evolve to is the ol "I was hurt so I will hurt". As in, they take on the role of the "pompous asshole, gatekeepers knowledge and belittling anyone that doesn't know.
Just a guess, though.
My dad is an engineer born in the 50’s and despite what he says, he absolutely has an “I know better than tradesmen because I went to college” attitude.
I’m also an engineer, but I and many from my generation have the attitude of “school taught us the math and the why, but didn’t teach us the how” and we pretty much all want to go spend time with tradesmen so we can learn how things are actually built.
I'm an engineer and as I was reading the guy's comment I was thinking this is pretty prevalent in engineering. Then I looked down and see your comment. Yeah, I'm glad it's different these days. I had to go work for myself because of all that attitude.
Man.... can't imagine going through a tragedy like that
Yeah, it was pretty wild. She and I used to be relatively close before Covid and have a lot of mutual friends. Never met the guy myself, but I hear that he was a really stand up dude. See her a couple times a year still and she hasn’t been the same since, honestly.
We don't know the before tho. If I see someone about to do something stupid, I try to warn them and they dismiss me because they think they know better or just think being older makes them an authority, then I 1000% would let it play out and pull out my camera and start filming their stupidity. At that point it is self inflicted. Not my job or problem if I already tried to warn them.
While renovating my own house I wired all the plug circuits in such a way that it meant a certain fire on each one until my family friend informed me so😅
I am very sorry to hear that but at the same time I can’t understand why you would do you own electrical work when you don’t know anything about electronics. It’s like getting in a car when you don’t have your license… I will never understand it.
It's not even electronics...
My two year old doesn't have a license and she gets in the car all the time.
And let me guess: She never even finished high school.
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No it’s not. There is no law saying you have to prevent people from doing stupid shit.
He had that OG Willy Wonka/Gene Wilder energy. "No. Stop. Don't."
With gow much the guy was flinching and turning his face he clearly knew it was live too.
Curious what the plan was
Pretty obvious the orange guy was expecting it too for all the flinching and cringing he did
I like how basically no one really reacted. No scream. No “oh my god!” No “are you alright”
It was like EVERYONE knew what was going to happen.
It looked like a table of trades men. They knew what was coming and not on the clock to intervene.
"Not on the clock"? Give me a break. A-hole behavior.
Sometimes you see someone doing something dumb, but you know it’s not worth arguing. They’re going to do it anyways.
Yep in my personal experience, "she bailed him out afterwards anyways" so why bother.
Local man discovers tig-welding.
I had that same joke lined up, though mine lacked the simplicity and sophistication of yours.
That's the reddit experience for you
"Hey Bill you shut off the electricity right"
"For the third time yes"
"My bad"
“Turned it back on it was a joke bro”
No reason to get mad, it's just a prank bro.
Why u mad
NGL... Tungsten cuttng pliers would have my interests.
I know tungsten is super heavy and dense but how strong would those pliers be?
"... And for my next magic trick, I will disappear..."
Aaaand he shit his pants
The light at the end of the tunnel saw him
If you shit your pants, you're dead, everyone knows that
Did we just watch an old man die?
Yes, similar to how Obi Wan died.
pokes at pile of clothes with a foot
He probaby survived, but he won't be living well for a while.
No safety equipment, electricity still on, recipe for disaster
Uninsulated cutters too. He felt that, at least for a split second.
He probably felt that for quite awhile afterwards.
they were implying he died
r/Whatcouldgowrong
Interesting how the guy in the neon shirt didn't even flinch.
Probably works construction, might even be an electrician himself. He knew exactly what was gonna happen
Man if so, step in or attempt to say something. You got no idea what other shoddy crap is in that building and you may prevent a single death if not others.
Worst case scenario you get kicked out and got a free meal before hazard ensues and people are hurt.
I understand sometimes you have to stay in your lane but we also gotta help each other out a bit here when we can and not just film people falling down. You see someone down you give them the hand, not the foot.
Where the heck did he go? I keep expecting to see him falling off the ladder. I think he got vaporized or yeeted into another dimension 🤣
Having accidentally discharged a sizable capacitor across my hands, I can assure you that as far as he knows, he did get transported into another dimension. I'm not sure how long I was out, but when I came to, I was slumped in the corner on the other side of the room. I consider myself lucky that I was transported back to this plane.
the wonders of interdimensional shock travel
Fun fact, the blast itself doesn’t propel you, it’s your own muscles! So technically you are capable of throwing your body across a room with your own strength
Yeah, the flash looks like an explosion, but there’s no real concussive force behind it. I think I pushed myself back a bit, then stumbled the rest of the way. Maybe. I really have no recollection, I just had to piece together the facts: awakened on the floor seeing stars, numb/aching arms and hands, a tiny black hole in my right thumb that smelled like burning flesh, studio strobe innards scattered about the room. “Oh yeah I was trying to fix that!”
Don't you mean smelling of hot dogs? Every time I burn myself it smells like the roller grill at 711
If we’re going the food route, the smell reminds me more of when you scrape the grates of a BBQ grill clean. There was the electrocution burn, and the time a doctor had to cauterize a bad cut on my hand to get the bleeding to stop. Both smelled like old, burned BBQ to me.
Wild journey man. Thanks for sharing.
Welcome back to Earth. Sounds like a while ago tho
25 years or so ago, back when I was a young idiot. Now I’m a middle aged idiot (that won’t go near a D cell sized capacitor ever again)
Fuck what was that a quarter farad?! Lmao interesting experiences indeed
360v 2200uF, if my memory serves right.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnalogCommunity/comments/14n03z5/trying_to_fix_some_vintage_strobes_theses/
Not my project, but a similar endeavor with similar innards. Close enough to give me the chills.
That is, indeed, a biggun. Whew... glad it's only a cool story now
Yeah. The older I get, the more lucky I think I was with that. I was definitely on the uphill slope of Mt. Stupid.
Yep he went to join the Others
He's in the upsidedowns now
If you were serious, he disappeared behind the guy in red.
I've know since I was 5 that you TURN OFF THE ELECTRICITY!
Let the magic smoke out
I too have no idea what I'm doing, yet somehow I predicted this outcome
I did this, my dad swore he flipped the breaker off. He was standing next to me and I specifically asked, you killed the breaker right? and he said yes.. so I snipped the wire.
it did exactly this and it melted my pliers. Like a pea sized hole where the pliers met the wire.
thankfully they were insulated pliers, didn't hurt, didn't get shocked, but someone shit in my pants
buy good tools.
Get a non-contact voltage tester. Every house I’ve lived in the person who labeled the breaker panel was, outside of major appliances with their own run, just naming rooms in the house that may or may not actually be on that breaker.
I'm just wondering how the rest of you relationship with your dad went after this. If someone I knew was that careless with my life, I wouldn't trust them around anything I cared about from then on, including my life, but also, spouse, kids, cars, houses.
lmao, you are damaged goods my man, that's not normal. shit happens
Darwinian undergraduate.
FYI if this ever happens to you, go to a hospital immediately. It may not kill you at that moment, but having an severe electric shock can damage the heart enough to stop it hours later.
Yep, the electric current can cause internal burns while traveling through your body.
I’ve seen folks do this more than a few times in my life. Funny. No one ever just flips the breaker or pulls the fuse. 🚀
This is the most egregious thing I’ve seen today. Sadly it’s only 7:30am where I live. Fuck me but social media is turning us all into sociopaths
Every electrician has a pair of wire stripper converted from a cutter at some of point of time.
Yeah he rolled 4 straight nat 1s on intelligence checks.
Upon watching this unfold, bystander has dialed 9-1...
I like how every single light in the area is on and he still tries to cut it
That was all I could see/think about the entire time. wtf.
There is clearly a fire in the ceiling, too, judging from that spreading burn halo.
That's smoke from the explosive sparks that rose to the ceiling and spreading outward.
Yeah I've been that guy watching before, too stunned to say or do anything when someone does something insanely stupid.
"Holy shit, is this old man about to beef it?" pulls out phone to record.
Except that part, I let other people watching do that one for me. I like to be in the moment when I'm about to experience someone dying.
Dark.
Not an expert but I am sure he has no idea what he is doing.
Was that just a smoke halo at the end or did he set the ceiling on fire?
That's one way to find the breaker.
“Found it!”
This one never gets old
cancelled for coming to work in blackface
I've drilled through a floor joist and hit a wire on the other side. Ruined the drill.
Also, love the smoke ring dissipating afterward.
r/IveGotAGuy
He’s clearly not an electrician
And this is why humanity blows. Everyone watching knows this is dangerous AF, should not be happening. Not one person piping up to stop him in his tracks.
Someone (or multiple people) might have spoken up before filming started. Shocked Guy might have been a hard-headed know-it-all and insisted on cutting the wire anyway, despite being warned. Perhaps that's why someone started filming in the first place.
Who knows.
I will say in everyone's defense, that my first thought was "oh that cannot be safe". However, I am also not and electrician. I dont know for sure what is and isnt safe. Ive never had to cut a wire before. For all I know, it is safe ans he knows what he's doing. And im not going to get myself called a Karen for suggesting maybe he not do that because it might not be safe 🤷♀️
Also, the guy himself clearly knew. All that squinting and flinching. Like, MF, what good outcome did you expect?
He’s fine, he activated his emergency squints
How did such a stupid person get old?
r/donthelpjustfilm
"Hey man, I can't get to the breaker."
"Np, I gotchu fam. HEY GARY! GRAB THESE AND MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL!
r/sweatypalms
Darwin Award
"Nope. Wrong breaker." - As he lies on the floor dying.
Release the toxic brown smoke!
I wanted to see the rest of the video where the guy stands up with his hair straight up like don king.
I don't think he'll be getting up anymore unless someone has a defib handy.
what's funny is the guys recording this are electricians and they said nothing
Someone filmed this instead of intervening. Cool.
Happy Fourth of July!!!!
Looked like 277. Ouch.
Is he ok???
His pants are not
Seen that happening a mile away, and clearly the camera man did too!
The video had my stress level at 10
Saw that coming. Hope he's ok
Yikes!
I’m watching this and I’m like no way is that live. Idk what he thought would happen there.
Around the 11 second mark you see him tense up, kind of wincing and looking away. That’s when you knew it was gonna be bad.
What a shocking result. Who current see that coming. He’d better charge extra for the repair.
EVERY SINGLE light switch was on and there was full power going to everything.... like whatttttt??
Unless its a critical system turn the goddamn breaker off. If you absolutely have to do it live the you cut the wires one at a time and then cap them. Hot, neutral ground. Then when re-installing , ground, neutral, hot.
Yes, holding the cutters at arms length will save you.
Fuckwit
Omg the fact no one reacted and then I realized the pliers stayed up there, I’m going to piss myself 😂😂😂
Does the old guy okay? That spark hit his face.
He's lucky he was able to let go
There is only one way to identify them unmarked breakers lol. Guy knows just enough to be dangerous. Well maybe not since he cut into a live wire.
$10 says this is the owner who gave a task to someone smarter than him, that guy said shut the electricity off first, boss didn't want to lose an hour of profit, does it himself, ends up in hospital.
Business degrees will bring us back into the throes of Darwinism and I am here for it.
The lights are on, but nobody’s home
Orange man is vaporized into yellow green cloud.
Is he…dead?
How some people make it to old age I'll never understand.
r/askashittyelectrician
It was in that moment.. wait.. where'd he go?
Did not see that coming!
lol !
Why didn’t he just cut it and quickly let go?
7 layers of stupid here.
I mean, probably not cool to just let it happen, but I guess with the ladder he was on he was definitely going to fall before he locked in for a lethal dose
And that’s how Dr Zap got his superpowers.
Thank God he was wearing eye protection
Once the smoke is out, it can never be put back in.
This is why we end up with so many rules about what we can and cannot do. For heavens sake, turn the power off before doing any electrical work. Might save a life. Yours.
PS. Seeing as the camera person guessed or knew what was going to happen why didn’t he stop this or does he like seeing someone win a Darwin Award? /s
Never gets old.
Fsd 14.2.2.2
Those straight cutters are going to have new teeth.
Dude vaporized.
Wait, wait, wait: I want to make sure that I understand what we all just watched:
The man on the ladder was cutting through a hot electrical cord with combination pliers which simply connected the two internal wires and severely shocked the man?
And, at the same time, there are two men at a table, watching this, recording it, but not warning the man of the danger?
Did I get all that right?
Awesome.
Why?
Considering the lights are still on, the guy maybe thought he switched off this circuit. I mean, he clearly short circuited something so the breaker should have done its job. If those lights are on the same circuit they should not be on any longer.