That's not being brave. It's being stupid.

What does he think of himself? A super hero or someone volt proof? I find people are so stupid at times and that does not exclude me. . The most common thing that people lack is common sense, this being another burning example. I still remember working on our antique ECTV with shutters when still a kid. I got shocks many times but that didn't deter me from my passion of engineering. And this kinda indomitable spree would occur only when no one is around. I didn't learn it the hard way for years after I found myself fidgeting with iron wire getting the shock of my life. I didn't learn still. Recently I had another shock from my new found hair straightener!! Now, that's a typical common man and see how I am bragging now!

some call it cowardice but i did what came to mind that day..i was surrounded by some street dogs and i could see a open door of a house nearby.people say if you walk straight ,without showing sign of any fear,dogs donot attack but i ran to that house and closed it,later i came to know,they were a group of mad dogs.

oh yes... i encountered many people like that every now and then who think that they are doing a macho and courageous act while in fact they are being very stupid and risking their own lives... and i actually tell them in their face straight away that i didn't appreciate their stupid actions nor will i praise them... i myself try not to learn the hard way and be very cautious in every act that i do... take care and have a nice day...

Some people just don't think things through, pure and simple. And I too am guilty of the same in the past unfortunately. One particular incident for me also involved electricity. I was on a farming property and there was an electric cattle fence surrounding a field I was walking in. I approached the fence and of course wondered whether it was actually on or not, because going over it would be much quicker than going around it. And now the stupidity gene kicked in..... I picked up a piece of old fence post made from wood that had a nail in it. In my infinite wisdon at the time, I figured that if the fence WAS on, it would make a zapping noise when I touched the nail to the electric wire. I correctly assumed that the wood meant that I would not get electrocuted myself; but I didn't take into account that the wood would also absorb any chance of there being a zap sound or any reaction whatsoever! lol. Of course nothing happened when I touched the nail to the fence, so I assumed it was off. I then placed both hands on the wire so I could swing my legs over it and continue on my way..... Well, a split second later I had me a wonderful view of the sky because I was flat on my back in the field! The difference for me in this case though is that I don't see it as being courageous for one minute. It was nothing less than stupidity on my part! Others maybe talk things up to try to show bravado and divert attention away from the fact that they were indeed an unthinking idiot! lol.

Based from your story, being courageous needs being careful also. Courage is nothing without other necessary factors like proper timing and proper situation. But still, being courageous is a big advantage because it takes almost any opportunity to do something and in most cases, it does help someone a lot. Opportunity is hard to find and courage is one thing that finds it. But for sure, a courageous person learns as he grows to use his courage at the right time and at the right place.

some people learn by the book while some by experience. i think the big difference between the two is that learning by experience has a better chance of committing mistakes which is a good topic to share for awareness but a bad thing to brag about.

Sorry to hear about your friends' plightg. You are right his act cannot be termed as brave per se, it could be called mis-adventure and when we are not sure about something, we should not venture into that. Life is very precious and it would be better not to take these kind of risks. In this case, he would have called an 'electrician' for the job. It was perhaps better to pay Rs.20-30/- to a qualified electrician, than to put yourself at stake. I avoid such kind of adventrues and always go for outside help/assistance, when I am not sure about such jobs. I do not mind spending money, afterall if we all start doing these kind of jobs ourselves, who will call electricians etc., they will die of hunger.........LOL! Good Post!

I feel that if you are taking a serious risk for which you are not trained specially, it is just foolishness. You have mentioned that the perosn was not qualified and still he tried to change the fuse of an open wired junction box. One should be trained to do this type of jobs and if one does not have enough knowledge of doing it in right manner, it should be avoided. As you have mentioned about that dog's incident, I remember running on the edge of a deep well which was near our school, running on the slanting roof top of my own house in my young age. I too felt that I was doing a brave thing. But now as a matured person I realize that it was "stupid" thing only. God has given us brain to think if the action which we are going to take is rational, safe and more importantly suitable for us or not. But if we do not use it and just for craze of doing something called "brave work", then it is "stupidity" only.

Being brave is doing something that you know is likely to cause you harm, and you do it anyway because it needs to be done. Most people wouldn't think changing a fuse would fall into that category, but maybe he had done it before and hurt himself and didn't learn from that, so therefore he was brave in making another attempt, LOL. Why was there open wiring in a high voltage junction box anyway?

Atleast your friend escaped with just a burnt finger. Actually he was pure lucky that nothing serious happened to him or he wouldn't have been alive to tell you the tale. It is stupidity on his part to handle electrical equipments when he didn't have much knowledge. I have come across people who do that. Just take our trains in Mumbai for example. We will always find people travelling on the top of the train. They think its cool.I don't think there is anything cool about it. It is very dangerous to travel like that. Just recently there was this news in the paper, around 200 people(in some interior location, forgot which place) travelling on the top of a train fell from the train as they hit a tree branch. Thankfully nobody was seriously injured.Hopefully they will think twice before trying that stunt again.

I think that there are a lot of people like your friend, out in the world today. They are people that seem to think that they have to prove something, I personally agree with you. I think that it is stupid and dangerous to try to fix something that you don't have the experience to do. I personally would have called someone in to do it for me. Thankfully you don't seem inclinded to do the same and my advice to you is to steer clear when your friend tries something like this again. He is very lucky that he did not get seiously hurt. I just have to shake my head at some people,LOL.

Yes, they generally think that it is very brave of them to end up doing such acts. it is very lethal to fiddle with electricity poles, the newspaper is splashed with reports about youngsters doing such vain acts to impress their friends, girls and portray a macho image.