I hadn't realized that the human body is extremely capacitive. In the movie "The Green Mile," every time they closed the {3-pole / at least 400 amp?} knife switch, all the lights got real bright and exploded.
I think Hollywood must be from a parallel universe where different laws of physics apply. It probably comes from the same scriptwriters guidebook which states that any shorted 120V household appliance will throw a 12-ft arc and that any car which goes off the highway will explode.
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I found this little item while doing some searches. It seems that fate doesn't like to be cheated:
A killer who won a reprieve from the chair in 1986 ended up accidentally electrocuting himself as he watched TV in his cell. The headphones Howard Baker was wearing carried a current from his TV set to the stainless steel toilet he was sitting on, sending a lethal current through his body.
[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 03-13-2003).]
