Knife in a Toaster

erco

DON'T TRY THIS!

http://t.now.msn.com/knife-in-toaster-is-a-bad-idea-so-naturally-idiots-have-to-prove-it

Cut to the 1-minute mark and mind the adult expletives.

Spoiler alert: I was expecting a scream, not a boom. Higher voltage mains, perhaps?

NWCCTV

Higher voltage mains, perhaps?

Or some good video editing. Or better yet, genuine Chinese manufacturing!!!

erco

Sounds like they might be Aussies or Kiwis. So where's Crocodile Dundee to quip, "Now THAT'S a knife!"

W9GFO

A long time ago I stuck a knife in a toaster, more than once*. I found it interesting how that wherever you touched the glowing red filament it would go dark for a moment. Then I was told I would get electrocuted if I did that and was quite confused because I didn't feel or hear anything.

* Not an endorsement for sticking metal things inside toasters.

teganburns

Funny but definitely special effects. I have never done the knife in a toaster but definitely been shocked by a wall socket more than once.

kwinn

Even at 220V it would not blow up like that so one of the idiots had to rig it to do that. With no safety glasses or face shield the idiot sticking the knife in is lucky if he is not blind or burned.

LoopyByteloose

This is something my mother might do when the burnt toast got stuck... usually too thick of a slice of toast or an English muffin (which is really too small in diameter anyway).

I guess this is why the toaster oven was developed.

Some people just have no sense about machines. I watched her serve strawberry shortcake once with canned whipped cream, and tried to open the whipped cream can with an ice pick. I still wonder what inspired that. The whipped cream went everywhere.

Do you have any friends that always twist a knob that should obviously be pushed or pulled, and always push and pull the ones that should be turned?

Everything around them keeps falling into disrepair.

Here is my favorite -- Cooking hot dogs by electrocution with LEDs

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2007/cooking-hot-dogs-via-electrocution/

BTW, my mom was great. She gave me tons of opportunity to learn by repairing things she had broken. I was even sucessful at fixing the washing machine at 10 years old.

But she wasn't very good at teaching driving. I learned to drive in snow at 15 1/2 on a learner's permit because she didn't want to drive in a white out blizzard going over the old Donner Summit to Squaw Valley. An extremely dangerous stretch of road on a sunny day.

And my first experience with driving a clutch and gear shift was in 5pm rush hour traffic going up Powell Street on the cable car tracks with a cable car following me.

Pretty much a 'sink or swim' approach to driver's education.

bill190

Loopy Byteloose wrote: »

...Some people just have no sense about machines. I watched her serve strawberry shortcake once with canned whipped cream, and tried to open the whipped cream can with an ice pick. I still wonder what inspired that. The whipped cream went everywhere...

A guy who is a friend of a friend stuck a credit card into a kitchen sink garbage disposal to "shred it". That resulted in a jammed up - non-working garbage disposal. The same guy could not change a flat tire on a car.

As for doing things "friends" tell you to do... I try to teach young kids that they don't have do everything other kids tell them to do - that sometimes those things will get them into trouble. Too many young people these days play "follow the leader" and can't think on their own. (Actually if they say no every now and then, they will be more respected.)

LoopyByteloose

Like having your little brother lick the door to the freezer inside a refrigerator.... ouch.

After thinking about this toaster versus toaster ovens... I still think the toaster oven is a greater danger than the toaster.

I toaster merely blue up, if you get a brainwave to cook sausages or bacon in a toaster oven, you can easily burn the whole house down and att that are in it.