Note to self: when disassembling a digital camera, MAKE SURE you take out the batteries and discharge the capacitor before reaching in there... So yeah, I was unscrewing this one screw (with a metal screwdriver) and I happened to touch the wrong pin with my other hand... it was so weird; I've been electrocuted before, but never across my chest like that. At first I couldn't even figure out what had happened, but then I remembered that cameras have capacitors in them for the flash. Now I just feel like an idiot. It even burned my thumb as you can see very blurrily in this photo:

I touched a connector in my PC's power supply while it was turned on once. Was really weird, caused my arm to fling backwards in an arc and into the shelves behind me. Fun times.

Yeah I've gotten some AC plenty of times. My dad says he's had the anode of a CRT discharge through him and he's fine.

I did the same thing with a disposable camera years ago. There was even a warning printed on it, but it made me just laugh, and I thought what kind of n00b would get himself electrocuted with a bloody camera. Then it zapped... It was surprisingly strong.

A couple weeks ago, I was in my basement taking apart the base of a hanging lamp, and apparently, I had the plug reversed. What should have been equal to the ground was actually not. Never been shocked quite so hard. Straight down the left side of my body into the ground. I don't know how I didn't get nearly killed, considering it came so close to my heart and was the hardest I'd ever been shocked. Maybe I've just been shocked so many times that I just built up an immunity. :p

Awhile ago, the instructor for the track team at my school took his team outside when a thrunder storm was brewing right above. He said to his athlete students that he found it cool that pole vaulting poles had a "cool ringing sound when you put it close to your ears."

Hehe

That explains a lot, actually.

I used to play with model trains, and, one day, I was fixing a model, and my left hand kept twitching on its own. I then realized that my arm was laying across the tracks, and that the power was set to full.

haha.

No, you didn't. :p

AH! BLOODY HELL! HOW LONG DOES THOSE THINGS HOLD A ****ING CHARGE??!!!

Now I have a burn on my index finger to go with the one on my thumb.

Oh well, could be worse, like this one time when I was screwing around with a home-made 30 kV DC power supply... i KNEW i didn't need that damn 600 uF capacitor in there. I suppose that time it didn't go across my heart though; just kinda... made my arm go numb for a while.

I've been electricuted more times than i can remember. I even made a tazer... twice.

Freshman year of Electronics, we grabbed an LED and hooked it up to a power supply. Set the thing to 60 volts and turned it on. The LED exploded and his this kid in the eye >.<

THe worste time was when I used to work at K.F.C. So the night's rush is done and I'm cleaning the huge chicken fryer stove oil-filled thingamagigs (don't mind me, dunno how to call em in english (frenchie here :P)). So I clean it up and all and had my hands wet when I went to plug it into the wall. To my great great luck *sarcasm* someone called out my name so I focused on them as I was replugging. My fingers of course we wrapped around the plug and brushed against the metal connectors.

Suffice to say, I've felt so energitec. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Seriously, my arm had a huge spasm, I fell to my *** stunned (completely numbed over) and did not feel very stable on my feet for the rest of the evening. For a moment, the girl taking to me thought I'd just died. rofl. Of course thats until she peered over the table and saw me blinking while starring into the void.

Good times.

One time I was at a friends house, and I had brought my XBOX because he didn't have one and loved to play Halo.

For some reason, we're sleeping (yeah right) inside their familys camper.

Around 6 in the morning, I unplug it so we can plug his gamecube in so we can play Super Smash Brothers Melee.

I don't remember the charge going through my arm, but man, my arm was numb for about the next four hours.

I must've put my finger into the socket accidently or something...

I stuck my finger in an electrocal outlet.

The only part of an outlet that can shock you is the top right hand side, the other parts won't do squat.

Jesus Christ... you guys aren't going to believe this, but it shocked me AGAIN. I think it has a personal vendetta against me that's allowing it to generate energy from nowhere and stay charged. Maybe I'll wait for a couple of days; capacitors only hold their charge for that long if I remember correctly.

Why don't you just discharge them all properly :p

Because I'm at uni and I left all my tools and such at home... all I have is a leatherman micra which I'm using as a screwdriver (which is part of the problem; it's all metal, which conducts a bit better than the plastic handle on regular screwdrivers).

Capacitors hold their charge for as long as they're not drained (unless they have a circuit setup to drain it when the device has been turned off). Take a screwdriver with an insulated handle and ground the frickin' thing out to drain it. [edit: or anything metal you can insulate, for that matter.] I did that at home with 120V AC. It just fizzled out, though, with a bright flash and a small FOOOOF sound.

120VAC 15A does NOT feel good. I got a quick realization of this several times. Latest was back in....July. I went to go install a receptical (plug) and the breaker was on. My hand brushed against a little bit of bare copper on the black wire (hot). BZZZZ! Followed by 45 seconds of cursing. Then me being the wonderful genius I decide not to turn the breaker off and just install the receptical. Bad idea. I strip the white and black wires and..allowed them to touch. POW! 120VAC 15A clash forces and singe the wires something good. Both hot and neutral were hot to the touch. I never told dad (my boss). Not only would I a) get fired but b) get one helluva verbal schlacking. I probably deserve both.

I'm a wonderful electrician

It's all starting to make sense....

[QUOTE=Victor Van Dort]The only part of an outlet that can shock you is the top right hand side, the other parts won't do squat.[/QUOTE]
That depends on:
1.) Whether the outlet is wired properly.
2.) Which direction the outlet is mounted.

Older wiring, the outlet is generally mounted with ground prong down. Newer wiring, the outlet is generally mounted with ground prong up (which I hate for non-electrical related reasons).

My friends shocked themselves (both of them) when they were trying to make a stun gun out of a disposable camera. How they both managed to get shocked, at the same time no less, is still a mystery to me.

Easy, they were touching each other.

No you haven't!

Seriously people need to stop using words they don't know the meanings of. :p

If you hold down the power button for a few seconds it should discharge the capacitors, right?

At school last year, in our biology lab, a kid bent a paper clip and stuck one end in one hole, and the other end in the other hole. You should've seen him scream.

I know I've been unplugging some power strips sometimes, and my hand has been over a socket with something sticking in there. The first time I felt my arm like vibrate, it was weird.

the decease in charge gets smaller exponentialay, in other words, they will have some charge for quite a while

But it will be so small it won't make a difference, yeah?

Just touch both leads to any nearby grounded object. A water pipe, your PC case, etc.

As for the "what part of the outlet can shock you", it should be the shorter of the two slots. Unfortunately a lot of household wiring is total crap, so it could be backwards.

My wiring jobs are spot on!