I have seen lots of electrocution videos where the victims get “glued” to the very object that killed them, like electricity poles, to the point that they stay in the air and not fall on the ground. How/Why?
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Your muscles work with electricity. Your brain sends some through your nerves to command them to contract.
When you grab an electrified object your muscles contract, both the ones that close your hand and the ones that open it, but the closing ones are stronger. Your brain can’t overcome the electricity (it doesn’t even command muscles to relax, kinda) so you can’t release the electrified object.
If someone touches you when you’re being electrocuted, then they could grab you as well. So either they can cut the power or try to use a plank to remove you from the object.
The best you can do is to first touch the fridge/washing machine/etc with the back of your hand. That way, if it happens to be electrified you’ll be kicked (by your own muscles) but unable to grab. And… Have a house GFCI switch like many other countries (cuts power when some of the phase doesn’t return to the street through the neutral cable as it should).
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