Darkassassin07
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Also known as a suicide cord.
Typically made so you can plug a generator into your home when the powers out. (ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS turn off the main breaker first.)
Calling something illegal has no meaning when nobody enforces consequences.
It almost looks like he had a tumor tattooed...
I worked a warehouse a few years ago that had ~15 of the two pallet long ride-on pallet jacks and one that could carry three pallets.
Each of the employees picking orders would drive them around, paletizing a whole order then dropping it off in a staging area to be wrapped and loaded on a truck later that night.
You'd often have item bays waiting to be replenished before you could complete picking an order, so we used ride-ons that could carry two pallets allowing you to move on to a second order while you waited on the first.
The wheels will snag on the smallest of debris; then your instinct is to brace yourself against the handle, but it hinges away from you so you fall forward with nothing but the ground to stop you.
Aren't the gloves so she can demonstrate for you?
Fake and gay, some would say.
Last time I heard that, this was still popular:
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scanning people's cats
... Pardon?
Just a small Canadian town with very little else to do...
This school used to put students on detention in the office where the secretary + principal could keep an eye on them (so the teachers actually got a break instead of classes then detention supervision). For some reason the room they'd put you in also had a display for all the cameras in the school, just slowly flipping between each one.
Just meant all the school bullies, pranksters, and general troublemakers knew exactly where to stand so they weren't caught on camera XD
To act as a fuse, the tab needs to reach 660 degrees celsius, and if the breaker pops, that means the breaker acted as the fuse.
I can tell you from experience; both occur.
Such a thin piece of aluminum across 120vac super heats so quickly that it basically vaporizes, faster than the breaker can react. That metal vapor allows an arch to form still passing excess current which is what finally trips the breaker. (standard breakers take time to trip, longer than fuses in many cases; this is intentional design. GFCI breakers are a different story.) Sometimes this arc doesn't form and the breaker doesn't trip; but it usually does.
Once tripped, the vapor has time to dissipate so the short clears and the breaker can be turned back on.
None of this is advice. Someone asked about dumb pranks I've pulled in school. I'm just discussing the past; not making recommendations for the future.
Na, the aluminum acts as a fuse and breaks the circuit almost immediately. It makes a bright flash and a loud sound, but it's over in a second with no real harm.
That's not to say I'm recommending this at all, it's definitely a pretty stupid prank; just that it doesn't cause nearly as much damage as you might think.
Kids have lots of stupid ideas and saftey isn't exactly the first thing they consider...
At least I never heated the handles of the tool cabinets with the blow torch in shop class. Had two separate classmates pull that 'prank'.