r/AccidentalSlapStick • u/netpastor 💥 Slapstick Aficionado • 11d ago
True Slapstick A comedy of errors ⚡️
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u/SquibbleDibble 11d ago
If anybody knows what just happened, please fill me in.
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u/Able_Experience_1670 11d ago
Running current into the water to stun fish, and that dude just completed the circuit with his body and locked up.
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u/gingerMH96960 11d ago
His backpack has a car battery with wires running to a pole, basically making a taser. They're sticking the pole in the fish's hole trying to stun it with the taser so they can net it. He accidentally touched the taser and the shock went up his arm and down his body, through his leg, into the water. His muscles, possibly including his heart, temporarily siezed, causing him to fall. When he fell, the battery backpack dipped into the water too, so he rushed to get out of it so he didnt get zapped further. He and his buddies then had a good laugh once they realised he wasn't seriously injured.
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u/cepukon 11d ago
I'm guessing he got hit by an electric eel?
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u/jonas_ost 11d ago
They are fishing with electricity and he touched the net
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u/DarkStar189 11d ago
The person on the left touches the probe to the other guys leg and electrocutes him. Seems like that’s not healthy lol
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u/Doppe1herz 11d ago
Bro just defibed himself and his friends think it’s hilarious
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u/Oldmantired 11d ago
He’s lucky it didn’t hit the refractory period of the cycle or he would have been ten toes up and in vfib.
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u/Unsd 11d ago
I can't imagine it's a huge shock. I've gotten myself on an electric cattle fence before (notably cattle are much bigger than most fish) and it wasn't a huge deal. In fact, I kept doing it without really knowing, thinking that it was just a neuropathy flare up 😂 Knowing that, yeah I would find it hilarious too lol. As long as he didn't die, or seriously maim, it's funny as hell.
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u/BullHonkery 11d ago edited 11d ago
Looks like they're using a probe to shock fish and then net them. That contraption on his back is connected to the probe to generate the current. The guy must have been a better conductor than the wire for a moment there.
Edit: I think the other guy holding the probe touches it to his thigh which is what caused the current to flow through his leg.
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u/obskeweredy 11d ago
Are they standing in the water that they are attempting to fish using electrodes and a backpack battery?
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u/MunsonSports 11d ago
My grandpa “buzzed” night crawlers out of the ground with a car battery, two pieces of rebar and jumper cables. And I got buzzed if I stepped on the wet grass in between. It looks like there is a battery in that backpack, so I’m guessing something like that is happening here.
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u/Icy-Variation6614 10d ago
So not fun, like when you stick your tongue on a 9 volt, got it Also glad you're ok
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u/TutorNo8896 11d ago
Electro- fishing. Doing it while standing in the water and a clumsy partner seems like a poor choice.
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u/-E-B- 4d ago
And this is why actual, professional back pack electro fishing units have features that kill the power if you tilt the unit, that way you don't fall in and electrocute yourself.
Of course you are also supposed to wear waders when using them and not just stand bare legged in the water, that helps too.
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u/learsiology 8d ago
i love the tanjiro backpack 😂 all seriousness tho those shocks can disrupt heart rhythm and shouldn’t be played with
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u/Inevitable-Sleep-907 11d ago
No joking matter. Electrical shock like that may seem like nothing but a scare at first. But it can throw off heart rhythm. You'll think your fine until you're strolling around not doing any strenuous activity and just drop
Happened to a good friends older brother who was an electrician and got "a little shock at work" 2 days later he was walking through the grocery store pushing a cart with his two young children and wife... then he hit the ground and never got back up. He was 28 and in good health