Static Electricity Can Be Shockingly Funny, But The Joke's Over When A Rack Goes Dark
The Register, Monday, April 14th, 2025
If this techie had been older and slower, this never would have happened
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Connor," who told us about a job he held in his early 20s when his desk and the hardware he worked on were separated by six stories.
As he was young and fit at the time, when Connor was summoned to fix something he would often run up or down the stairs.
Doing so was made more fun by the fact that conditions in the stairwell meant some runs produced a static charge in Connor's body.
"If I touched metal railings or people, it was sometimes quite funny," he told Who, Me?