On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 06:08:56 -0000, micky wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:41:34 -0800, Bob F
wrote:

On 12/14/2018 10:41 AM, Fred Johnson wrote:
Could static electricity to the eyeball cause lasting harm? Normally
you just jump and swear with a static shock to your finger etc, but I've
found two instances on google of pain lasting a few days when someone
got a shock on their nose (one in a shop from a perfume bottle they were
smelling, and one from a blanket at home). But what if it got your
eyeball?

Does it still hurt? The pain will go away. How is your vision? Bleery
or an actual obstructed view in one eye. A little damage to the eyeball
that is not in front of the pupil probably won't hurt you, but you might
want to see an ophthamologist. You should be checked for glaucoma every
few years anyhow.

They were google results, I've never experienced it myself.

Victor Riesel, an investigative newspaper "journalist and columnist",
had acid thrown in his face by mobsters, when he was 43 years old, and
he was blind the rest of his life (but he continued to write his column
until he was 76). These days I think they have ways to smooth things
over. at least if the damage is small.

You'd think the acid would only damage the outer layers of the eyeball, which should be repairable, unless it got inside the eye socket and dripped round the back?

A neighbor of mine got shocked by her landline phone when lightning
struck while I was talking to her on my phone. It turned out that the
phone line protective ground had been disconnected. She said that her
hearing was hyper-sensitive for weeks after that. Everything was way louder.

I could use that these days.

Where do I disconnect that ground and how do I get my phone struck by
lightning?

Can't you just rig something up with a Van-de-Graff or the insides of an insect zapper and a phone not connected to the main line?