If you learned about how electrocution kills you from cartoons or Ernest P. Worrell—you get fried as your body flashes like fireworks and everybody can see your bones—well, you got learned wrong. Electricity doesn't actually fry you—that actually requires way more juice than it takes to kill you, which is a frighteningly minuscule amount. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Simple how to illustrations to electrocute yourself.

Example: Climb a hay pile and pretend a pitchfork is your penis, then headbutt some wires. picked by PulsisX 8 months ago

Police say a 29-year-old York County woman is dead after her husband apparently shocked her with an electric cord to stimulate her during sex. picked by DemureArt 2 years ago

Slideshow from Vienna's Technisches museum.

*Props to boingboing* picked by Bornbad 12 months ago

York PA man who plugged nipple clips into a 120v power strip charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment. picked by blurmore 2 years ago

Defense contractor KBR Inc. has been awarded a $35 million Pentagon contract involving major electrical work, even as it is under criminal investigation in the electrocution deaths of at least two U.S. soldiers in Iraq. picked by shep182 10 months ago

New York's ban was signed in March, one of the final acts of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer before he resigned after he was implicated in a prostitution ring. Nothing was made of the passage then in the tumultuous transition to a new governor.
*Somewhat gruesome details in article. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

A man was executed by electrocution for his four sons' murder. That was the first time since 1960 an electric chair was used to perform execution in Tennessee state. picked by maxriter 2 years ago

“Many people get pleasure from direct contact with electric utilities. Usually used for these purposes are pieces of un-insulated wires, paper clips or even conventional metal dining forks. All these devices are unreliable, short and, last but not least, can cause short-circuiting, or ignition of the wiring.”
... In other words, you die. picked by mutil8or 1 year ago

Imaginative way of demonstrating your odds of dying by different factors. picked by hypnotode 3 years ago

KBR, A contractor providing services to the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan has committed serious violations of its contract, mainly by conducting inadequate inspections of electrical wiring and grounding at American bases, according to Pentagon sources. picked by shep182 1 year ago

A 600-pound brown bear got electrocuted when it tore open a utility box and bit into live wires.

(Mildy disturbing image warning) picked by Matoogs 3 years ago

A man hanging Christmas decorations in a redwood tree in East Palo Alto Saturday was killed instantly when a string of lights touched two high-tension power lines, according to officials. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Maseth, 24, of Shaler, Pa., outside Pittsburgh, was electrocuted on Jan. 2 when an improperly grounded electric water pump short-circuited and flowed through the pipes. Since the coiled hose was touching his arm, he was hit with an electrical jolt and went into cardiac arrest and died. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago