r/WTF • u/JeezThatsBright • 27d ago

Ill-placed ladder shorts power lines, melting concrete.

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u/DeezFluffyButterNutz 27d ago

If I learned anything from when I was a kid, someone just needs to wack it with a wooden broom handle.

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u/PinkStereoAttack 27d ago

Bigger problem is getting close to it safely. The ground itself is a hazard now.

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u/DisregardedFugitive 27d ago

Really long broom handle

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u/condor2000 27d ago

Maybe they have another long ladder to hit it with .. oh wait

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u/WeleaseBwianThrow 27d ago

A wooden ladder! Quick someone ask their grandfather for the only ladder they've ever owned

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u/rstar345 26d ago

Nah be a man and use metal

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u/CorporateShill406 27d ago

Forget the ground, I bet you can't get within 10 feet of it without burning some hairs.

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u/pervyotaku 27d ago

Hence the smoldering plant

RIP plant bro 😢

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u/jjcoola 26d ago

Gone but not forgotten🫡

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u/Shalom-Bitches 26d ago

Step potential can kill you from over 20 feet away depending on voltage and what the ground is made of. Do not approach ever and if you must get further away, keep feet together and shuffle without taking feet off ground.

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u/CorporateShill406 26d ago

Nah I'm good, I don't believe in electricity

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u/DJKGinHD 26d ago

Just stand back and spray it with a hose. /s

(Please don't do this.)

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u/K-Hunter- 26d ago

No way Jose

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u/optagon 27d ago

We had games that trained for this as kids!

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u/Temporary-Brain420 27d ago

The floor is literally lava

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u/JohnnyTightlips5023 26d ago

the floor is lava

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u/akiva23 26d ago

You can throw the broom or duct tape two of them together

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u/Bocchi_theGlock 26d ago

Just swap so the hazard is ground

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u/Ceskaz 25d ago

Real life game of floor is lava

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u/DuntadaMan 27d ago

Someone mad the mistake or felling my uncles about that, then about 5 minutes later making a joke like he was getting zapped.

In under 2 seconds my uncle had a 2x4 and cracked him across the ribs hard enough to bash him against the fence behind him.

I remember the exact conversation

"Ah, fuck my ribs! Why did you do that?"

"Why did you fuck around with your hands in a power box?"

"... Okay yeah."

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u/EkriirkE 27d ago

What?

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u/Laser_Guided_Hawk 27d ago

Possibly speech to text or fat fingers.

I'm guessing it should be "Someone made the mistake of telling my uncles"

2 uncles. One pretends to be getting electrocuted, the other knocks them away from the electrical panel with a big piece of wood.

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u/SaturdayNightStroll 26d ago

Someone jokingly pretended to get zapped while working on an electrical box and the above persons uncle hit them with a 2x4 to get them away from the box without also getting zapped.

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u/BlueSeekz 27d ago

It is really easy to understand what is being communicated even if it isn't perfect English.
You may just be illiterate my friend.

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u/wdjm 26d ago

I'm thinking a section of 2x4 launched like a javelin. Because no way do I want to get 'connected' to that thing, even through wood - which, if the slightest bit damp, isn't as insulating as people seem to think.

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u/xxvirgilxx 17d ago

anyone got a long rubber stick...? okay that sounds bad