Well, my rather stupid incident involved a helpless cone spider who had decided to take up residence in the cords plugged into a powerstrip on my dad's workbench. the spider had this very interesting cone-shaped web that went all over the many cords that were plugged in, and went down to the third prong hole, also known as the ground.

I had decided to show off to a friend of mine and demonstrate how deadly this 12,000 volt hand heald device was to this spider.

Upon seeing the spider in the web, i approached it with the stun gun and decided that i would be relatively safe with the red switch on the power strip turned to the "off" posiiton.

I brought the stun gun to the web, and upon noticing that its web was being disturbted by a large object, the spider retreated into its safe little hideaway. I proceeded to put the stun gun against the power strip, wich i might mention was plugged in at the time, and pulled the trigger, releasing 12,000 volts of electricity into the metal frame of the power strip.

well, this electricity didnt just arc through the case, like attracted like in this case. in other words, it combined with the household current that was ready and waiting to travel through the cord, arced back through the handle of the stun gun and into my hand. I stood there, being electrocuted, and tried to pull away, only to find myself being pulled back in by forces too strong for me to resist. The spider web, wich had been delicately and intracately

After a moment of my body twitching rather comically, I realized that I should move my finger so that it was no longer pulling the trigger of the stun gun, and I suddenly found myself being thrown backwards about ten feet.

I realized that my tounge had been slamming back and fourth inside of my mouth and had I not had the presence of mind to slide my finger downward, I would have never excaped the grasp of these two combined voltages. My friend laughed this shocked laugh, and looked at me incredulously, only able to exclaim "Damn, why the hell did you do that?"

Needless to say, the poor spider met its demise, and in the process, its web was also elecrocuted and vaporized in a yellow-orange flash.

I am still alive to this day, and lets just say, I know im still in the gene pool, so I believe that if this story isnt rejected, it would probably end up in the honorable mentions, if im worthy of that honor.

Submitted on 11/05/2005

Submitted by: Mike Ambrosi
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James said:
Neutral: Personal Account
At 15 you would be too young to qualify, but I liked your story so I am voting to keep for now...

Greg said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I do like the story.

Sheryl said:
Neutral: Other
I'm hoping "other unwelcome guests" didn't include visitors to the house! I'm really staying neural on this one as I love spiders which, by the way, are NOT pests. Sorry, prejudices showing here but hey, we Moderators have personalities too.

Jorge said:
Neutral: Personal Account

Charles said:
Neutral: Personal Account
This story could use a touch of copy-editing, and additionally it seems that at 15 you were pretty close to the maturity cutoff. But I'll go with te majority here...

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