Have you ever been electrically shocked?

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Does anyone know if stun guns shock you while you're touching the one being stunned?

I don't want to grab someone's wrist just to shock myself.

When I was younger, one morning after a lightning storm I was getting some cereal out of our camper, and I went to grab the door handle and got a nice jolt Went back inside and came back with an oven mit ;D

That's the only unintentional one I can think of...other than that, I've done the whole "see how long you can hold a 9v battery on your tongue" way too many times (I'm not very good at it either)...we shocked each other in machine shop by holding onto a spark plug on a lawnmower engine while another kid pull-starts it...and then in one of my electronics classes, we had these mini crank generators we were shocking each other with.

Boys will be boys

Never touched any electric fences, but I did snag myself on a barb wire one once

yes, from a lamp cord that had been shortened and the cut wires covered with sticky tape which had come off. It burnt a little hole in my hand - it sticks to your hand so you can't drop it, I'd seen some electrocution video at school so I knew I could only kick the power cord out of my hand. I did that then passed out.

A couple of times, when I was plugging my computer into the electrical outlet, not realizing my other hand was right there. How I didn't realize that before the fact, I don't know.

Yes, twice. Once, was when I was a teen, I had noticed that the cord to my radio had been severed. So, I plugged in the severed part, and held the other half up to it. I'll Never do that again. I got knocked to the floor by the shock. Another time, I was about 5, and tried to rescue a piece of burnt bread from the toaster, using a fork. The toaster was still "toasting." It made a funny noise and a weird vibration traveled up my arm. And then the toaster short circuited.

When I was a bout 6 I stuck a key in an electrical outlet. I remember something "throwing me" up against the wall on the opposite side of the house. I dont recall it hurting, or crying, so i assume it did not, but I'm guessing I didnt like being "thrown", as I havent ever repeated that. The key by the way, got torqued and was no longer functional after that.

Right between the eyes with a 10,000 volt cattle fence. Three times, I think. I lost count. I've never been the same since.

Yep, electric fence just like many others here.

I've shocked myself with a friend's electric dog collar before.

A couple times, with power plugs or raw wires, when I was a child (I am far too careful now). Pissed the hell out of me.

Hmm...
I've been electrocuted by fences, power outlets.
Once when setting up a 20 watt solar panel i had a momentary lapse in judgement and licked the wires... Not something i'd do again... Or recommend others try...

Oh and also pulling the spark-plug wire off of a lawnmower when it was running.

Yup. Fences. More than once.

There was a fence adjacent to our place a few years back, with a neighbor who used the next door pasture for his bulls. Well, they kept getting through our fence to the horses. Breaking wires, the whole bit. We would watch them just puuuussshhh on the wire with their heads or chests until they (ah ha ha) bulled their way through.

So we go to check the fence. We could here it ticking, there was juice. So I tap the top wire... Nothin'... I tap it again and let my fingers linger for a minute, nothin'... So I flat grab the bugger. Nothin' at all. So we figure he doesn't know what he is doing and doesn't have it grounded right or something.

A few days later I was short, cuttin' through his bull pasture, cause my husband was yellin' at me to hurry over. (Don't remember why). So I slip through our "idiot" bull rancher friends fence. Grab one wire, shove it down, swing a leg over, and start to squeeze through. I just had one leg over when a very large hand wholloped me and shoved me back onto my butt by a good five feet. Zapped the crap outta me. It was like it started in my hands and culminated in my chest, when it got there it exploded and shoved me back. Loads of fun. I'll never do that again. (Probably.)

There are times when I should change my name to "BZZZT"

We have 240 volt mains downunder.
I once was standing on the soggy back lawn in bare feet trying to move a broken washing machine, unaware my brother had plugged it in.

I swear I screamed for five minutes until I could tear myself free, but my brother said I never made a sound.

I once hit the 20,000 volt plate line while tuning a radio transmitter...and woke up on the other side of the room.

When I lived on top of Foster hill , I'd strung my 20 metre dipole antenna over the water tank.
I was in my workshop one day when I was struck with a feeling of dread... then all my hair instantly stood on end...
There was an.... umm... indescribable noise event, followed by sparks spiderwebbing around all the electronic equipment lasting several seconds.

The lightning strike only popped 2 fuses... and none of my electronics suffered (apart from the smouldering stump of coax leading to where the antenna was)

Yes... if a chain of people holding hands has someone touch an electric fence... everyone gets zapped.

Peeing on an electric fence is inadvisable... but funny to watch.

A taser it hurt like hell.

I poured water over an electric fence by accident once. I was so heavily drugged at the time that I had no idea what that weird and awful sensation was, until I had been pouring the water for quite some time.

I have also been deliberately shocked as part of nerve conduction testing.

Electric fences, many times. Thrown backwards a few feet once, having touched a poorly wired electrical outlet in a metal housing.

I remain undamaged from touching the streamers off Tesla coils, though appearantly the 'skin effect' theory about why doing this doesn't hurt is disproven and actually the high-frequency means that you just don't feel it because it's too far off from the frequency used by the electrical impulses in your nerves, and I could have burned myself internally playing around with the coils.