Easy answer:
Watch a Medium Voltage Primary Feeder Conductor when it falls off an Insulator and finally reaches the Earth Ground.
It will dance around like crazy - blowing sparks, creating plasma arcs, making all kinds of noise - until something gives out (like Breaker, Fuse, fried wire, etc.).
Then it becomes still - but by no means is it "Dead"!
Of course, Automatic Reclose will occur - resulting in the same crazy-bouncy dance sessions again (and if someone with a death wish grabs the wire, the same will happen to that person!).
But even if the circuit does not get re-energized, there will be discharging from Coupled Reactances, along with the circuit's initial Line / Circuit Charging plus any other stored Reactive Power - all of which, if drawn through a load connection with an Impedance similar to that of living people, will result in a similar crazy dance on that person!
So the answer is:
Yes, you can get shocked very easilly in almost any circumstance.
I know you are only asking this to know, and do not plan on attempting this ever!
If you want to know more about this, let us know!
Just ask the Linepersons here about L-G flows! Things take a drammatic change above 2KV, a really drammatic change above 35KV;... and a mind boggling change above 200KV!
Scott35
