TheShocking Experiment

This story is sort of old too. It's from my days as a University student.

Those make the best stories.

I was taking Physics 1251 (first level physics) at the University of Minnesota... it was also my freshman year. I was doing the lab where you make collisions with floating cars and spark-tape.

Sounds complicated... especially for a freshman.

Anyway, that stuff doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is the electricity. For the lab we had a high-powered power source which could make a spark jump almost an inch.

Sure, but could it make a woodchuck chuck?

Now this power source sent something like 70-90 jolts of electricity per second!
I was supposed to be working, but I was playing with the power source (seeing how far i could make the spark jump). I don't know how the **** I did it, but I simultaneously pressed the power button and was holding the two wires.

That's easy... You were messing around.

The next thing I felt was undescribable pain running through my arms, all the way up to my shoulders at 70-80 jolts per second. I finally let go of the button

Finally?

and boy was I in bad shape. In the second or fraction of a second I was being cooked, I had pulled muscles in my arms, shoulders and back from the spasams. I had also managed to piss in my pants, get one killer headache and my entire lab in big trouble.

Way to go!

I don't know if this qualifies as a shocking story... I sure think it does.

Sincerely,

Michael R.

A higher education can kill you.