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* While technically not electrocution (which is defined as death by electric shock) plenty of people survive encounters with household electricity with nothing worse than a tingly arm. However, electricity is capricious. Slight changes in what the person is touching can mean the difference between a shock passing harmlessly between the thumb and forefinger or fatally between the thumb and foot by way of the heart.
** [http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html Someone actually won a] [[Darwin Award]] for exactly this, managing to kill themselves with a 9-volt battery.
* The electric fences used on farms and smallholdings are designed for this trope. Enough voltage to hurt a bull through a couple of inches of hair, but a small enough current to be harmless to cats and small children.
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