These 30 Ways To Die From Electrocution From A 1931 Book Shows How Much The World Has Changed

This was relevant in 1932 because of lack of and improper grounding. anything and anyone could become the ground.

It's highly improbable if the live wire is this far from the 'outlet', as the stream will have separated into drops with insulating air in between. That said, if one pees close enough to an electric fence one can suffer the indignity and pain of a shock...

That'll teach him...

Kind of like spitting into the wind.

Mythbusters proved this is not possible

Watt the f**k!

It's an old fashioned electric tea kettle. The baby pulled the heating element connectors off the kettle and put one in its mouth and one in its hand while it was plugged in. Moral. Keep stuff like that out of rich of babies.

What is the baby chewing on? An electronic jump rope?

Babies will try to eat anything.

Is that an enema machine??!!

People really did put lit candles on their trees.

I've just found this years Christmas card.

I don't get it. My mom said when she was a little girl growing up in German, they would put REAL candles on the tree, with REAL flames, and you had to watch that sh*t or else burn down your house! But the tree was never decorated and lit up until Christmas Eve anyways.

I ran across the following at a university. A metal conduit carrying electric lines was hot with 115 volts on the conduit. A desk with metallic trim around the edge was pushed against the conduit making the trim hot. I could feel the tingling whenever I touched the trim. Building maintenance did not want to admit to a problem. They changed their mind when I attached a wire to the conduit and then touched the other end of the wire to a hot water radiator in the room. The arc that occurred was enough too convince them that there was a problem.

Awww, poor train.

Lol. Greeeeat... Not much you can do to prevent this!

What?! You can get electrocuted by turning on a tap in the bath?!

For some reason.. i have always have this fear!

Depending on how old your house is this can still happen ppl.

That's pure bad luck

The lesson here is: don't live with psychopaths.

This looks like a murder plot from an old horror comic book.

How to get rid of your mean, evil stepfather.

Damn dude your friends are sadistic a******s.

Fatal prank.

I think this one only applies to dogs--and it's useless because dogs don't read books!

Wonder how frequently this happened that they had to print it as warning.. poor pup

Pick a better place to pee, ya dumb dog! 15 poles to choose from, but ya gotta pick this one.

This artist is also not pro-peeing outdoors.

Noooooooooo Fidoooo............

I can't even begin to fathom the depth of this picture. Hats off to artist!

These are all so unavoidable!

Let's see: She has fallen off the stool, spilled the milk, but she's still clinging to the cow's teat?

This is hysterical

why does electricity always try to leave through an orifice?

Is the bulge under those blankets his partners head? It would explain the look on his face.