Engineer - (dangerous faults) : Alec Bonsall

Transcript

I can remember being called out on a on a Sunday once and a lady said 'oh I'm so glad you've come'. She said 'Because the telephone bell keeps ringing'. Well unfortunately there was a stray mains current running up the earth and it was going through the bell. I checked it out and sure enough there was about two hundred and thirty volts AC coming up the earth so I informed the lady that she seemed to have got some electrical appliance that was giving trouble and I said 'is there anything specific that you've got on today that you don't normally have on?' As this is has only happened on a Sunday and she said 'well I've got the oven on'. So I said 'well could you just turn it off momentarily?' So she turned it off. It transpired that there was a fault on the electric cooker and at that moment an old gent stuck his head round the door and he said 'is that why I always get a shock when I'm in the bath Sunday mornings?' And I said 'well yes... you should see yourself lucky sir you're still with us'. But I said 'yes' so the lady switched her cooker off, the gentleman finished his bath and her telephone bell stopped buzzing.