i touched a live 400Volts 1200 Amps copper conductor once, while standing on a grounded metal walkway.
Next thing i knew was lying on my back with the apprentice, who gave me the faulty test bulb i checked with beforehand, staring in my face. While the other guy who had told me "he had switched everything off" was nowhere to be seen.
I checked my heart rate, it was normal, i got up and continued with my work. i was shaking a bit though, and couldn't touch copper conductors for a while after that.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
