Shockingly Stupid

This story starts off my junior year in my LRTC Electrical class where in the first two weeks of school we went over electrical safety and things you should never do when dealing with electricity. One of those things was putting metal objects that are not meant to be in outlets, this is exactly what one of my classmates did and then sent it to our class group chat because he thought it was funny. Well, that did not work well for him because our teacher saw it and gave him a punishment that he would soon find out. He eventually took responsibility for his actions and had to help replace all of the outlets that he broke in the classroom.

So this happened on a day where me and three other kids were with our teacher off on a jobsite in Greene doing some wiring for a janitor at Lewiston high school because all of the other kids had mandatory tests to take. The kid sent the video to group chat where we opened, but we did not know that our teacher was right behind us. The video was him in a classroom with an apple charger halfway plugged in so that the prongs where making contact and energized but he was still able to drop a penny on it so that it would create an ark and bright flash. This caused the circuit breaker to trip and killing all of the power to the outlets. My teacher then took one of our phones and sent him a message saying how stupid and dangerous that was.

The kid soon would have to face his punishment because the next class two days later my teacher assigned him a four page essay on electrical safety because we had gone over it just 3 months ago. He also had to write an apology to the principal of Lewiston for destroying the outlets that he broke and had to help with replacing them in that classroom. This student then started to change his behavior and did not play with electricity and do things that could hurt him or others around him. My teacher used this as a teaching moment to all of us kids and not just him by explaining to us how dangerous that is and why we should never do that because somebody could have gotten seriously hurt. The lesson the kid learned that electricity is not something that you should mess with and that there are consequences to your actions even if you do not think that some people would see what he did.

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