We had a safety course and I liked to attend it as the person who led it was called to the court when fatal cases of electrick shock were involved, so he had dozens of selected horror stories...

But the following is a different one, from the school, too.

Two assistents were wiring up benches with mains sockets in a lab. They were constantly joking and playing "shocked" just for fun. One of them somehow managed to touch the live wire and could not release it. He then recalled: "the last thing I saw before I fainted was him, laughing, and I knew he *knows* I am only joking..."

JW