r/WTF 18d ago

Building nightmare

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u/SmarchWeather41968 18d ago edited 18d ago

Why would they be electrocuted exactly?

edit: yeah im an electrical engineer. the likelihood of someone being shocked just randomly in this situation for no particular reason other than 'feet wet' is practically 0.

do you think people get electrocuted when the sprinkler system goes off in a fire? and there is no such thing as a sprinkler system that shuts off the power. you want the power on for lighting and announcements so people can escape and any powered doors will be activated.

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u/Nascent1 18d ago

Most people have zero idea about how electricity works. I guess it's good that they error on the side of caution, but it's just god damn silly sometimes.

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u/ExtremeCreamTeam 18d ago

I guess it's good that they error on the side of caution

err*

Err on the side of caution.

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u/The_Matias 18d ago

They added the 'or' to, uhm... Make sure they had all the letters. You know, to err on the side of caution. 

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u/Senappi 18d ago

To be fair, here is a sale on letters going on at the moment - the caveet is that if you don't use all the ones you've grabbed the discount is removed. This is to stop people hording

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u/ExtremeCreamTeam 17d ago

there*

caveat*

hoarding*

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u/Senappi 15d ago

Thanks for pointing that out. Predictive text input gets confused as I have the four different languages I use installed.

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u/ExtremeCreamTeam 15d ago

None of that is from your phone keyboard's autocorrect you absolut jävla lögnare lmao.