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We were office testing a Servo 8808 Hot Box Detector, meaning, we would hook everything up and let it run a while before it was to be taken out to the field for installation. After everything was connected, my fellow technician was about to power it up, I snuck behind the rack - which stood about 6 feet tall - and lit up a cigar. Just when he hit the power switch, I blew this huge smoke cloud from behind it. The smoke came out of the front and all you could hear was "ki-ki---ki--ki--ki--ki !!!" he was trying to say "kill the power!" but, he couldn't get it out! <br /> <br /> Another favorite is when someone is about to take a meter reading, and, you can see they're nervous (high voltage, but, it only hurts for a few seconds), just before they touch the test points, you clap your hands by using the finger tips against the other palm, which makes a nice high pitch sounding "pop". Usually makes them jump everytime.
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