Electric Immunity

Jesse (May 1st, 2007)

I was in my garage and we've been doing some construction upstairs for an upper room. We were slipping wires down to the electric box. I was looking at a wire that wasn't fully covered with a lot of copper showing. I don't know anything about electricity or that type of work, so I just touched the copper with my hand and eletricity started shaking my arm and climbing through it rapidly, I had to jolt my body away from it because it felt like it stunned my arm. I was in my bare feet, I was told that wasn't good, rubber shoes help electricity go away or something. The shock felt strong and numbed my arm for a while.

Later I thought it was pretty cool, so I asked my sister and brother if they wanted a shock but none of them wanted to. Later I found out from the guy building the upstairs that I touched the main wire to all the houses power that has something like 10,000 volts of electricity. He said I was very lucky I didn't fly backwards or even die. I went and checked to make sure we were talking about the same wire. I think it would be a little weird to die from touching a wire about 1-2 inches thick and dying, but I had no idea. He just I didn't get the full effect of it and I shouldn't touch it again.

I don't know If I got lucky or God was watching over because like I said I don't know anything about eletricity. I just thought I'd post this because it was kind of weird and interesting. The shock didn't feel good. I've actually had bad luck with it lately, I blew up a wire in my face a few days earlier but it didn't short anything out. That wouldn't have really hurt me though, but I don't think I'll be an electrician anytime soon. :P