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Please don’t spread bad information about electricity. 15A at 110V is enough to weld your tool to the wires carrying the current. The mother probably got luck
by relaxing 1y ago
Please don’t spread bad information about electricity.
15A at 110V is enough to weld your tool to the wires carrying the current.
The mother probably got lucky and the neutral wire pulled away as it was cut and didn’t complete the circuit to the live wire.
The scissors must have had plastic handles that prevented the mother from becoming part of the circuit.
- cryptonector 1y agoIt's possible that my mom was not the dummy I thought her to be in that moment. She might have played a sleight of hand where she unplugged the cord and cut it almost at the same time. My memory of that event is hazy enough that what I remember was thinking how crazy dangerous what she did was -- I might not have checked if the plug was still in the socket.