Lesson in Conductivity

This just in from the Trialsrooster , who obviously had a bit of excitement on the job yesterday.....

"First off this really happened yesterday, I couldn't make this shit up. The shop I work in is the front most building of three. Yesterday I was back in my little corner of the world when the lights blinked a couple times. Thinking it was just a plug loose we checked that when the lights went out through the whole shop. At that point I started to walk to the front when I saw one of the guys running to the back building with 2 fire extinguishers. I'm kinda' thinking at this point WTF! So I grab an extinguisher too, and head out the door. As soon as I get outside I hear the unmistakable sound of very high voltage in a dead short.

In the breaker box of the rear building was a very bright arc along with a little bit of fire. By the way, don't shoot a fire extinguisher into a shorted breaker box, it makes the electrons very angry. I already knew this, but they got fire to shoot all the way across the room before they figured that out. It seems the asshole had a stripped screw in the breaker box and decided to drill it out. What he succeeded in doing was drilling into the electrical feed from the pole and grounding it out, he lived but suffered some burns. The fire department and electric company were not real happy.

The good part is I got to go home early."