"Lobster" wrote in message
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Ioannis wrote:
"Adrian C" wrote in message
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Well, as kids we all do silly things. Aged 10, with absolutely no sense
at all, I puffed the garage's compressed air nozzle in the direction of
my sister's ear. Thankfully I missed ;-)

When I was around 14, I climbed up an AC 20kV square tower, one that has a
3-phase stepdown transformer, just to get hold of a 160W blended light
lamp.

I got the lamp, but was later notified that I could have easily been
killed
being so close to the high voltage transformer, which occasionally closes
airgaps using electric sparks, particularly on wet nights.

A really stupid thing to do :-(

So didn't you have a sister, then? ;-)

No, but I had a cousin, one year younger, whom I had waiting on the pavement
to catch the lamp, me throwing it from up high.

This was actually a very serious tactical mistake: I should have instructed
him to climb the tower instead :-P

David
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