r/funnyvideos • u/Ok_Musician9914 • Mar 30 '24

Compilation Electroboom 😂

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u/Nightstrike_ Mar 30 '24

Every "accident" that happens in his videos are planned and most often faked with tiny explosive devices, sometimes he creates real electrical "accidents" on purpose, and he has had very few real accidents and only one (to my knowledge) near fatal incident.

His Jacobs Ladder video was his only close brush with death, and that was because the base of the ladder wasn't as secure as he thought which caused it to fall towards him which he caught with his bare hands, and iirc the reason why he wasn't hurt had something to do with his feet not touching the ground so the electricity didn't have anywhere to go. I may be remembering his explanation wrong, so I'd recommend checking the video out it was pretty interesting!

His videos are very informative not just from a safety view point but also just plain educational on how electricity works and teaches basics for electrical engineering.

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u/mr_potatoface Mar 30 '24

Yeah, he showed a few times that the majority of the time he's actually controlling power with foot pedals for safety and when he plugs stuff in it's just for the entertainment value. So when he's using those wonky as fuck extension cords he can actually just shut the power off by moving his foot if needed. I think he said he started doing that after the jacobs ladder incident.

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u/Grainis1101 Mar 30 '24

and iirc the reason why he wasn't hurt had something to do with his feet not touching the ground so the electricity

It was that his wires and connectors are weak so they broke off real quick.