On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:12:56PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
> >
> > Which reminds me of the time someone shorted out a mains socket with a
> > paper clip "to see what happened".
>
> Or the case of taking the wire from inside a scalextric hand controller,
> attaching on end to a sucker, affixing that to one side of a door frame,
> stretching across to make a trip wire and being short of something to anchor
> it with the other side, wrapping the remaining wire around the pins of a mains
> plug and pluging it in!
>
> Apparantly I was discovered on the other side of the room imbeded in a
> wardrobe. :-)
I received a 240V shock whilst still in the womb. Various people have
made the obvious comic-book connections about my affinity for all things
electronic....
Martin
