[FourtySeven]

I’m lucky too. When I was that age I had the brilliant idea to conduct an experiment of my own. I wanted to do a little electrolysis and separate out sodium and chlorine from table salt.

I saw it done with distilled water in chem class, separating oxygen and hydrogen so I thought I’d just add some salt to some water and presto!

So I cut open an extension chord and put the two wires in the salt solution, plugged it in and...bam!!! A huge yellow spark popped right above the cup of water in a very loud POP, and then half the house went dark.

Haha that was stupid! I was really lucky the only thing that happened was a few circuit breakers tripped.

Prayers for everyone involved in this tragedy. I can’t imagine his parents grief.

[Delta 21]

I dont want to flood the thread with how lucky I am to be alive vs. how stupid I once was, but

5 years old. Dads wire cutters and tape. A couple of old extension cords and in justa short while I was so proud of my freshly repaired double male ended cord I just had to plug it in. Picture the zot kid about to stick a fork in the wall plug-in........POW!

I do remember being more careful after that but it did seem like quite a while before I remember having fun with dads tools.