I was sent on a service call at an old couple's house. It seemed that whenever the wife would mop her kitchen floor and brush up against the sink, she would get zapped. Her husband thought she was nuts! Well I put my tester on the wet floor, and the sink. no voltage. So then she said it happened when her husband was downstairs in the basement fiddling with his "stuff". So I went to the basement and looked at the open beamed ceiling, and there was a two lite four foot fixture there, After I opened it, she yelled,"I got zapped again!" I ran back up stairs,and tested the floor again. No voltage. So I went back downstairs, and as soon as I turned on the basement lite, she said "I got zapped again". I told the woman to get away from the sink, and after turning off the lite, I found one of the screws which were used to secure the fixture, dead center of the romex, and since her husband had installed it, he did not realize the importance of grounding all metal objects. Needless to say, he could no longer fiddle with any of the electric anymore!
Richard
