Power Guy 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
This is a true, first-hand story, and is not exaggerated.
Houston police and paramedics responded to a call for service on the
evening of 7/31. A man was down in the parking lot of the movie theater!
Paramedics began administering CPR to a 30-year-old male, but were unable
to revive him.
What happened?
The man's truck would not start, because his battery needed a jump. But he
is conveniently parked next to a light pole! So the man removes the
service access panel from the bottom of the light pole, exposing the
electrical wiring. He proceeds to pull the negative and positive wires
from the pole, and removes the screw cap from the connection.
He then connects his battery jumper cables to each of the wires, and picks
up the now-live business end of the jumper cables to connect them to his
truck battery.
He doesn't even have time to wonder if the sequence is supposed to begin
with black-to-negative, or red-to-positive... the power travelled from one
hand to the other via the shortest route: across his chest. He was lit up
like a Christmas tree, and killed instantly.
That's what happens when you try to jump start a 12-volt truck system with
480 volts of electricity!
One of the emergency personnel said, "Just when you think you've seen it
all, you ain't seen nothing!"
Submitted on 08/01/2003
Submitted by:
Anonymous
Reference:
07/31/03 Police call for serv
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