More Electrical Safety
I’ve previously mentioned that you need to be careful when dealing with electrics in the workshop but not everyone is quite so sensible. Uncle Wilko from the ShedBlog reported of a pensioner who decided to wired up his shed electrics directly to the local substation, in the rain. The pensioner was posthumously awarded a Darwin Award.
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
[…] The strangest bodger I’ve found in Australia is Peter “TDU” from Tesla Downunder who’s “work” ranges from photographing enormous spiders to electro magnetic can crushing to high voltage experiments that could get him on the Darwin Awards. […]