Toller wrote:
What kind of short was it that didn't trip the breaker?
If you pipes were grounded why would you get a shock off them? Your
resistance has to be thousands of times higher than the water pipes, so if
there was some wierd short that only allowed a couple amps, 99.99% of it
would go through the pipes when you touched them.

This doesn't make any sense to me. Can anyone explain it?

Plastic pipes? The current would then be through the water, not the pipe.

You'd notice a shock when you were grounded yourself, say on a basement floor,
and touched metal in contact with the water.

Continuing current would discharge through the water to grounded devices in
contact with the water, running up the electric bill. It reduces the heating
requirement in the same amount, though. But it needn't be a breaker-blowing
current.
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