I nearly got electrocuted(I think)

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How about trying on a lightning strike for size? A direct lightning strike averages at 300 kilovolts. I got a direct lightning strike to stomach and arm and that really HURT. I've also got 2 sidesplash lightning strikes. I've also had several minor electrical shocks and those really don't hurt that much.

That's just a little shock, not electrocution. Electric fences have a very short pulse of about 40,000V (similar to a car spark plug).

If you get a chance, a good trick is to wear gum boots (rubber boots/wellingtons?) which insulate you from the ground. So long as you don't touch anything else, you can hold the electric fence for as long as you want, and tell others its not turned on. - lol

(I've had it done to me, and done it back )

Static electricity?

I have a news update... it is happening when my hands are NOT wet... I'm trying to get my other members of family to agree that we need to get an electrition in

Well usually it is anything between 220-240v. It is possible to die with a lot less than 110v. You can pulse at the right frequency and stop the heart.

One of the thing that shocked me when I lived in a country that used the US system was how few plugs were earthed or fused. They also didn't have a longer prog that cuts the connection as you pull it out (like UK). Mainly the ergonomics were terrible, especially for a lamp or similar. It has probably all changed now. Some houses had floor mounted sockets (i.e in a large room). The pins on the plugs were quite flimsey and they they could pop out slightly whilst the light was still on.

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the switch should indeed have no leakage, however, internal electrical fittings such as light switches and sockets are not ingress protected (meaning protected from thing like moisture/particles/whatever, if the switch is shocking you, get it replaced

I used to get a nasty shock from our bin freezer out in our garage.
Every time I opened that stupid freezer I would get a jolt and could feel it travel from my fingertip all the way down my leg. It hurt my fingers, but just made my legs feel all tingly and wobbly.

I have also been shocked badly by our lakeside lamps. Our yard floods a lot in the summer and I like wading in the knee deep water getting bumped by carp in the shins. I found a bunch of carp just floating at the top and as I went near I felt this pin pricking sensation that rapidly grew worse. Poor fish had gotten electrocuted by the lights.

Went on like that for a whole summer before we found that the ground had been disconnected.
Just after I had begun to master the flying freezer opener move. Jumping through the air while opening a freezer is harder than it sounds.

I also got a good jolt from a light switch and from a flexible conduit in our attic leading to the ceiling fan.

Usually does not hurt, but leaves you kinda numb and tingly.

Happen to me before.

Try this. Look at the light switch and flip it. Do it several time, you should notice a tiny tibbid of electrical current showing. There is no need to be alarm but when you flip the switch, electricity travel through water. What you just felt was the tip of an iceberg which was the spark.

If you were electrocuted, it would have went through your arm and hit your heart which travel through the nervous system is what a defliberator should feel like. There would be scars on your arm when it go through your arm.

Can't find the website that show all the tissue damages but imagine cooking your skin in a microwave. You haven't seen like this but it gruesome if it were severe.