Posted on 04/20/2016 4:41:31 PM PDT by Morgana
Authorities have identified a 15-year-old Ohio boy who they say was electrocuted while attempting to conduct an experiment he saw on YouTube.
An Erie County sheriff's deputy confirmed Wednesday that Morgan Wojciechowski's parents found him Tuesday in the garage of their Vermilion Township home. Chief Deputy Jared Oliver says authorities weren't sure whether the parents heard something or just went to check on their son.
Emergency crews were called and took the boy to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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“Began buying up jar after jar of Salt Peter and sulfur from the drug store.”
Ha, ha, that brings back memories too. I found out that the drug store in my neighborhood (at that time a near-exurb of Chicago) sold saltpeter which supposedly (?) controlled heat in horses and other farm animals. So, I bought a little bit, and made Dangerous Stuff with it. My friend was interested in where I got it from. I told him and reminded him to only buy a little so that the druggist wouldn’t wonder what we were doing with it. So, he goes and asks for the COLOSSAL sized container. The druggist asked “What are you going to do with it?” My friend panicked, and he said “I don’t know - it’s for my mother!” The druggist told him to get the #$@$# out of there and that was the end of our chemistry career.
You could get anything by ordering from the ads in the back of Popular Science. I’d order M-80 like silver salute tubes and end caps and fuse.
At the 4th and New Years, kids would bring me their firecrackers. And for a cut, I’d supply them with some larger firecrackers.
By high school, I was into Contact Explosives. That really got things popping along.
Good times!
More than likely he played with the electrical socket and stopped is heart.
Have to watch your kids.
“The worst shock I have ever had was from an old Vivitar electronic flash. The battery had gotten weak and I took it apart to see if I could replace it.”
It was the storage capacitor. Probably the last thing the battery had in it went to that. High capacity/voltage capacitors are extremely dangerous - so dangerous that they must be shipped “strapped” and unstrapped only just before they are installed in circuit, because they can actually accumulate static electricity.
Before modern digital copiers, copiers worked with enormous flash tubes, and the bigger copiers that could do more pages per minute had REALLY large power supplies and capacitors. We made them for a well-known xerographic company in the 80’s, and one of our engineers got hit with one, it burned away some of the flesh on his hand.
I have been shocked a couple of times by 110 volt house current. It is a bad experience but no where near as bad as that flash.
Another bad shock was from holding the spark plug wire of an old Whizzer bike when my brother pulled the starter cord. It hurt.
high-powered carbon-dioxide infrared laser>> got me looking at these amazing
I'm a retired commercial maintenance mechanic with a strong Electrical wiring background. You're right ladders likely do get more people and one nearly got me. I've been retired since 1994 on medical issues. But I decided to change out a flood light fixture. I won't work anything hot unless there is no other way so I killed the circuit breaker to the light and rechecked for power. Circuit was dead.
I went up on a step ladder and was assembling the new fixture trying to get the screws to line up with the box. I got hit so hard it knocked me off the ladder and into a banister on my deck. I laid there a couple minutes trying to get my breath and went inside. My wife yelled "what happened it sounded like an elephant fell down". I said I was knocked off the ladder. {she couldn't come check on me due to her disability} I gathered my wits and went back to the breaker panel and the breaker was off. I climbed back up and checked the wires and had no power showing. I grabbed the fixture again and felt a lesser hit and I let go.
I stood there think WTH is wrong here then I saw the culprit. I had goats for clearing brush and I had ran an electric fence to a lower lot below the house I had forgotten about. I was getting my arm into the 5000 volt surger while holding the grounded fixture LOL. The surgers amperage was way too low to kill me but the hit while up on a ladder about did it. Same thing with Yellow jackets and Wasp if up on a ladder the fall will do more than they will to ya.
115 Volts - Your Deadly Shipmate
Remember the segment where they were watching The Wild Women of Watusi Land?
DLG-34. My home from 1/67 to 12/70.
When DLG’s were DLG’s - Mine was the Yarnell (DLG-17) from precomm in 68 through 69.
“high-powered carbon-dioxide infrared laser>> got me looking at these amazing”
Do not look at one with your remaining eye.
Bah.
lol
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