Original ID : 5167 Created On : 2005-09-29 Last Modified : 2006-03-01
Safety lessons with Mrs Burge in primary school were a riot of incomprehensibility. We learned that if someone touches a live wire their muscles will be paralysed by the force of the electrical current and they won’t be able to let go. She got Kevin to pretend to be electrocuted by the lightswitch (eyes rolling, tongue lolling, zzzt! zzzt! noises).
Obviously you can’t touch Kevin to push him away from the switch, or zzzt! zzzt! - you’re frying too. You need something that won’t conduct. Plastic. What’s made of plastic? A lunchbox!
Mrs Burge then took my Thundercats lunchbox, complete with Marmite sandwiches, and used it to nudge Kevin away from the switch.
Fucking *weird*.
[anon]
Amazingly, our school sanctioned the use of brooms to remove the pupil from the electrical source.
The run up, whilst shouting “BANZAIIIII!!!!!” was OUR idea.