Electric shocks

[richskee]

Pissing me off!

For the last year everything i touch that is metal gives me a shock. I open the car door 'SHOCK' Computers 'SHOCK' everything 'SHOCK!'

Now it's getting stronger, not like the usual mini shocks. It's more intense, even when I'm walking past someone 7/10 times I'll shock'em.

I always carry my phone 'iphone' with me, along with my car keys that has a standard lock opener. They are the only electric thing I carry. I wear dunlop volleys most days, so could it be them?

I work for a TV station so there's heaps of tech gear, could that be the problem?

I'm litterally getting upwards of 20 shocks a day, so if anyone has got the same issue or advice, that would be to cool.


Maybe I'm MAGNETO! hahah

 

[DoubleO7]

From electric shocks to electrocution. You're slowly becoming some sort of... ah.... superhuman!

Anyway, it's probably from a build up of static electricity, most likely from your shoes and/or clothing.

 

[BomberGal]

This happens to me a lot in the tea room at work, depending on what I'm wearing. Grrr.

 

[hamG]

Clothing friction, sometimes just walking generates static electricity. I had a string of days where I kept getting zapped by my car. When I get out I hold the plastic end of my key in my hand and my thumb I push onto the metal part of the key and touch the car with the end of the key. The car & key get zapped but I don't feel a thing.

Edit: Friction from other objects like chairs too of course, its just the combination of materials which happen to be awesome for electricity.

 

[materamagic]

For some reason when i'm in the supermarket I get shocked when i attempt to open a fridge door or pick up a can of the shelves.

 

[Carl Hooper]

Haha, yeah just static electricity it seems.

Although if your getting shocked touching metal like in the shower or something in your house then it could be live due to a loose cable in your house touching a water pipe or something.

 

[Tormented Tiger]

Try a vegetarian diet. Too much red meat can send your iron levels too high, therefore making you a good conductor.

 

[BABYBOMBERS2007]

Electric shocks dont go in water then

 

[St 07]

Go outside and touch a tree every once in a while, someone told me once that helps.

Or use your powers for evil. Whatever works.

 

[Team Mo']

You need to lift your feet more.

 

[BomberGal]

Try a vegetarian diet. Too much red meat can send your iron levels too high, therefore making you a good conductor.

Haha. Oh my.

 

[sprockets]

Don't carry anything flammable on you like a cigarette lighter. I don't really care about you, but you might take someone else with you when you go KABOOM!

 

[lemon chicken]

Get these all the time at work but its manufacturing plastic packaging so that generates a fair bit of static. On saturday i was listening to my ipod at work and i got one that travelled up the cable to my ear (dont ask me how). Took a few minutes to figure out what had happened,it was pretty freaky.

 

[JimDocker]

Stay away from me !

 

[Exhale You]

I get them all the time at home.

Touching the fridge, the heater, even the kitchen tap/sink.

Tapping the fridge/heater/taps/door handles pretty hard first tends to help because the sensation from hitting your knuckle often negates/hides the feeling of the shock.
Sounds dumb and you look like a knob, but it definitely lessens the shocks.

 

[ben_cats_fan]

I remember one time walking through the supermarket and getting shocked by everything. My girlfriend at the time cottoned on to this happening and started touching my arm just to get a reaction. I cracked hahahaha.

I do a bit of audit work where I am and there's this one client I go out to who I swear they think i'm weird. Always touch and quickly draw my hand away from the door handle every time I go there. It shocks me all the time!

 

[Carl Hooper]

I get them all the time at home.

Touching the fridge, the heater, even the kitchen tap/sink.

Tapping the fridge/heater/taps/door handles pretty hard first tends to help because the sensation from hitting your knuckle often negates/hides the feeling of the shock.
Sounds dumb and you look like a knob, but it definitely lessens the shocks.

Get an electrician to check your earthing system at your house.

Or fly me to Victoria and I'll do it for you.

 

[Exhale You]

Get an electrician to check your earthing system at your house.

Or fly me to Victoria and I'll do it for you.

It's a pretty new house and it's only really been happening for the last 6 months or so.

 

[magtrev]

Touch stuff you know is gonna shock you (ie car) through a piece of clothing. It'll discharge the static but you'll hardly feel a thing.

 

[MarcMaverick]

I Had them thrice at TAFE yesterday, I shit you not. Once on the door handle, and another 2 times on the metallic tables.

Then I realised that the static electricity was built up because My dad had bought Ugg Boots and I wore them. And then I analysed that for about 8-12 months I had worn normal slippers and had nothing. Then from two days of wearing uggs I had three built up ones.

I went over and hugged two trees and it has not happend thus far. Typically or usually when you hug a tree it gounds all your static electricity thereby greatly reducing the amount of times you have static electricity. Also you are hugging one of natures greatest organism.

 

[Carl Hooper]

It's a pretty new house and it's only really been happening for the last 6 months or so.

A mouse or something could of knocked a cable loose. You never know. Doesn't matter how new the house is.

If the shocks are bad then get someone out, shouldn't cost too much.

 

[nuey]

I'd never had this problem, apart from the car door on occasion. But then last week I shopped at the new Woolworths at Harbour Town (Adelaide) and I got shocks from everything I touched, probably about 15 times, to the point where I wouldnt touch anything and got my gf to get stuff off the shelves for me because it wasnt happening to her

 

[isthisavailable]

Used to really piss me off when trying to get off the trampoline after a good jumping session.

 

[-CG-]

Used to really piss me off when trying to get off the trampoline after a good jumping session.

Haha me too! That part was horrible and they were always such big shocks. Thankfully we had some padding around ours so most of the time I made it off without touching any metal.

 

[ripitup27]

Pissing me off!

For the last year everything i touch that is metal gives me a shock. I open the car door 'SHOCK' Computers 'SHOCK' everything 'SHOCK!'

Now it's getting stronger, not like the usual mini shocks. It's more intense, even when I'm walking past someone 7/10 times I'll shock'em.

I always carry my phone 'iphone' with me, along with my car keys that has a standard lock opener. They are the only electric thing I carry. I wear dunlop volleys most days, so could it be them?

I work for a TV station so there's heaps of tech gear, could that be the problem?

I'm litterally getting upwards of 20 shocks a day, so if anyone has got the same issue or advice, that would be to cool.


Maybe I'm MAGNETO! hahah

There's your problem. Volleys on carpet will always result in a build-up of static and you'll always get shocked.

My guess is that it's because Volleys are very much flat soled shoes with a large soft rubber area on the bottom, perfect for conducting static electricity.

I'm exactly the same. Everytime I wear Volleys I'm Magneto, everytime I don't, I'm not.

It's the Volleys, no doubt about it.