electric shock through plastic switch

[Moses]

I'm confused, why would people put needles into light switches? Is this some kind drug addict thing?

No its to infect the healthy you, with HIV virus, when you operate the switch.

 

[Marvo]

No its to infect the healthy you, with HIV virus, when you operate the switch.

I'm trying to decide if you're joking.:38:

 

[Moses]

I'm trying to decide if you're joking.:38:

No not a joke. I have asked this question and was told this.

 

[Guitarist]

There are some very sick people out there who like to pass on their suffering to others...

 

[Moses]

There are some very sick people out there who like to pass on their suffering to others...

they think of it as REVENGE!!!!!

 

[Marvo]

I'm still trying to decide if you're joking or not or if it's some warped urban legend. In my naivety I even googled it but there were no results relevant to people sticking needles in light switches.

 

[keniff]

I was working in a block of flats and they said not to use the handrails due to junkies sticking needles to them. They should all have one shot to the forehead, mind you that would be to quick

 

[Jimmy Boy]

I was working in a block of flats and they said not to use the handrails due to junkies sticking needles to them. They should all have one shot to the forehead, mind you that would be to quick

Given the size of the brain rattling around in their nut you might miss it.. I'd go with a double tap lol

 

[Moses]

I'm still trying to decide if you're joking or not or if it's some warped urban legend. In my naivety I even googled it but there were no results relevant to people sticking needles in light switches.

You can't learn everything off Google!!!

Some things you learn by working on Council and Housing association properties, which don't get to google!!!!!

 

[oldtimer]

I got a job where the guy got a shock as he switchd his kettle on and the kitchen lights at the same time I traced the problem down to the supply to the 12v halogen lights (8-off) and half the circuit including the switch was not connected to earth and there was an induced voltage on it hence when he touched the metal kettle and he brushed across the metal screws of the plastic light switch

Also just to add I found it by testing between the socket earth for the kettle and the screws of the switch with a fluke multimeter

 

[JD6400]

I'm still trying to decide if you're joking or not or if it's some warped urban legend. In my naivety I even googled it but there were no results relevant to people sticking needles in light switches.

No urban myth , seen it personally in at least 2 property's around the Aylesbury Vale housing stock when i worked for a firm doing refits about 10 years ago !
In another property we kept going back too , the scum bag father would come back p"""ed and kick off the socket fronts and holes in the doors that we had replaced only a few days before , from memory that family was one of the VERY few to be moved on !

 

[Guitarist]

No urban myth , seen it personally in at least 2 property's around the Aylesbury Vale housing stock when i worked for a firm doing refits about 10 years ago !
In another property we kept going back too , the scum bag father would come back p"""ed and kick off the socket fronts and holes in the doors that we had replaced only a few days before , from memory that family was one of the VERY few to be moved on !

Shame there was an RCD....

 

[Moses]

You devil you, Guitarist!!!!

 

[JD6400]

This is a little of thread i know , but my last post reminded me of another one we did .
It was for the council again , and was for a special needs case .
The teenage son was a proper little """" and kept ( when not punching or head butting his mum ) punching and head butting holes in the plaster board walls in his specially built bedroom / on suit bathroom , he apparently had adhd and could not help it .:skep:
So it was decided instead of constantly repairing them they would line the walls with 1/2" ply then over board with plaster board !
So one day while the little """" is at school we hit it hard with the other trades and get it done up to ready for plastering as he would apparently take it badly and it would upset his routine if we were there when he got back !
Anyway by all accounts when he gets back he does go off on one and after nutting his mum one , he promptly tries it on the new wall , followed by a night in a&e .:hurray:
When we went back about a week later his mum said it had cured the little """" overnight !!!!!

 

[Guitarist]

I think they call that "aversion therapy".....

 

[Guitarist]

You devil you, Guitarist!!!!

There's a saying here in Norfolk, if he'd got a belt.... That'll learn im