Geez I'm Stupid
Submitted: Sunday, Jan 16, 2005 at 17:23
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Member - Jimbo (VIC)
If it wasn't for circuit breakers I'd have a smouldering heap sitting in the driveway rather than a Terracan (no jokes about that being an improvement).
Came
home from an overnighter in the bush and when I lifted the fridge out of the back I forgot to unplug it from the aux battery (in the back of the car) and it got wrenched out as I removed the fridge. Got it inside and checked the Hella/Waeco plug only to find the little protruding bit missing (it had snapped off). I then went looking for it in the back of the car and eventually found it inside the female plug on the battery box. As I tried to fish it out lots of sparks. Had the circuit breaker not been there it would have shorted the minute it snapped off and by the time I went looking for the bit, the car would have been on fire.
Moral of the story is ALWAYS fit a circuit breaker or fuse.
I'm putting my book about me on hold for the time being.
Cheers,
Jim.
Reply By: Member - Jimbo (VIC) - Sunday, Jan 16, 2005 at 18:52
Sunday, Jan 16, 2005 at 18:52
Hey, I don't feel quite so stupid now.
I just went down to the
Supermarket and the kid behind the jump is wearing a dirty big eye patch.
"How did you do that?" says I.
He replies "I got hit in the eye with one of those" pointing to one of those divider thingies you use to separate your groceries from the next customer's.
"Did someone throw it at you?" I ask.
"No" he replies, "I was trying to shoo away a fly and hit myself in the eye with it".
Fortunately no serious damage.
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