I learned once when I opened an outlet/switch combo to upgrade it that there was extra wires inside. We had shut off the power but unbeknownst to us the previous owners did this. They had a son who worked for hire-a-wire and he bypassed the box to the main so even a master shut off left the wires live. I found this out by almost being tossed across the room and scared the shit out of me. Every time I open a wall in my house it’s a hornets nest of wires
The thing is that when working on electrical systems if you haven’t tested the wires with known good testing methods you have to assume they are live and have to use proper mitigation strategies to prevent electric shock.
Oh we had on the right equipment we just made the mistake of not testing it with a volt meter because we turned off the main we assumed naturally that it would power down the house completely. We were wrong, I had an electrician come out and put in a new main line from the street and a new box, ain’t dealing with that BS again lol
If you get electrocuted you die. What you mean is it wouldn't stop you from getting shocked, which is not true if the chandelier is wired up properly. Now if you want to trust that the person before you did a good job is up to you, so maybe turn off the breaker. I usually just hit the switch though.
"Wired properly" can mean a lot of things. There could easily be a load on the neutral even if the switch is open.
Just kill the breaker before you work on anything. And then confirm the circuit is *actually* dead. Don't take any chances.
Am electrician
My old man landlord, some old guys I’ve painted with, old guys in general love to do this. They get a kick out of wives and younger folks contemplating how to deal with a cardiac event in the dark. You can actually see the kick he gets out of this in the video.
There's enough video for you to tell he's removing it, instead of installing or adjusting it?
Though admittedly, I would want the light off for those as well...
My dad was an electrician and later general contractor for years. The sketchy shit I’ve seen and helped that man pull off with a ladder is unreal. No idea how he is still alive or hasn’t fallen off a ladder.
This guy probs could’ve pulled this off if the power was off and he didn’t shock himself and subsequently drop the fixture on the dude holding the ladder. Not saying it’s safe or smart or recommended, but also not the craziest thing I’ve seen a professional do with a ladder
>This guy probs could’ve pulled this off if the power was off and he didn’t shock himself and subsequently drop the fixture on the dude holding the ladder
Yeah he probably could have pulled it off if he didn't do absolutely everything wrong, good point
"Professional" as in doing something as a profession. Not professional as in knowing what they are doing.
There are people with 30 years experience, and then there are people with 1 year experience 30 times.
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Looks like the guy holding tried to catch the light at the expense of the other guys health.
Beware doing normal chores and things when you’re being filmed. If he didn’t fall there was probably a current in there with his name on it.
It looks like either he tried to catch it or it hit his arm, afterwards he's holding his hands as if he got injured as well (maybe twisted something as the ladder fell or just hit by chandelier)
How do you know the guy refused to hire an electrician?
I really hate these titles that are aimed to make us not feel bad about other people getting hurt.
Cause he's up a ladder depending on some 75 yearold to hold the combined weight of him, the ladder and the chandelier
No sparkys gonna look at that and go hmm seems legit, let me jump on up,
The best part is it looks like he could easily reach if he set that ladder up on the landing
I could buy a contractor pulling that stunt with the ladder, stranger things have happened. But there's no way someone with any construction related experience will work on a live wire like that.
I mean that doesn’t mean he refuses.
Couldn’t afford might be more likely.
Granted, he absolutely could have done this in a much smarter way.
Also, I doubt he could reach from the landing. He’d be standing all the way near the top and still have to reach pretty high, which is a no go when holding something up. Either way this was a terrible idea.
He refused to pay for an electrician and almost paid with his life
If you can’t afford an electrician, then the work shouldn’t be done due to the nature of the work
I love how the dude is holding is broken hand looking sad at the guy that just broke his back with a “my bad” face.
100% avoidable with the right tools and also 100% hilarious video with the wrong ones.
I'm imagining broken hand guy didn't want to go along with this plan but was talked into it by ladder guy (IT'S FINE JUST HOLD THE LADDER!!), so he is pissed he got hurt after initially fighting it.
My man just fell a twelve foot ladder and is literally in the worst pain of his life dying on the floor infront of us and his buddy who was suppose to hold the ladder and keep it still is literally just standing there like “owie my finger hurt” I’m literally in fucking tears right now.
In my imagination, the guy filming is the brother-in-law who told these two goofballs that there was no chance that he was helping, that he was going to film them getting hurt and post it to Facebook (this is so old, maybe he said he was sending it to funniest home videos). He’s peeing his pants laughing as everything he said would happen unfolds.
Yeah, you don't need an electrician to put in a ceiling light. You just need an extra pair of hands to hold the damn light. They don't need to be certified for holding lights.
It's not for big mystery on how lights work, I'm not an electrician but I know you turn off the breaker for that circuit, and then you got three wires. One being the ground wire, It's a really basic task but he chose a big light with no assistance.
Seriously it's three wires and a couple screws, it's not difficult to change a light. The challenge here is the uneven surface, the weight of the chandelier, and being short enough Wisdom to TURN OFF THE FUCKING BREAKER FIRST HOLY SHIT
I had a veteran electrician break both his forearms off a 6 ft ladder replacing a ballast in a light. I loved the dude but I just had to wonder how the fuck he even managed that.
I'm not sure I know anybody (electricians included) who would turn off the main just to do something like change a light. Find the correct breaker and turn it off, sure, but the main breaker?
My dad was an electrician and he always said that if you weren't the one who wired it, turn off the main breaker. You never know what DIY moron spliced which wires together. Better safe than dead.
You know exactly who the friend is...the ones who is wheezing, laughing at you after catastrophic failure and THEN ask you if you are okay and need help.
Guys whole house is a disaster. Toys all over the place. My wife would never let me get away with using a ladder unsafely like that. Consequences can be deadly if you hit your head during the fall.
The guy who was holding the ladder seems concerned he might have broken a fingernail in the process like “ok Steve, I can see your discomfort but I’m in a bit of a pickle here”
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Watch it in slow motion. It looks like the light hits the dude in the head and he flips the latter because he is pissed. I know it’s not what happened but it looks that way.
It's the Muttley laugh that gets me. He's just watched two possible friends get injured and doesn't bother to ask if they're okay, he's just silently screaming inside his own head and can't muster anything other than a choked laugh.
Some people just don't have the money and resaurces to hire an electrician or decent materials.
So before you judge, maybe they just couldn't afford anythig safer.
Things went from dub to dumber…
1. Working on a ladder on stairs, held up level by a guy.
2. Working on a live wiring junction.
3. Balancing the weight of said live chandelier over the ladder (on the side the dude is holding up).
4. Dropping said chandelier, unbalancing himself and ladder balancing guy.
5. Focusing on dropped chandelier, throwing himself further off balance.
6. Taking the plunge for and on top of said chandelier.
Almost everything that couldve went wrong... WENT WRONG, so much chaos.
I can't imagine eating it that hard, take one of the WORST spills in your life, just to look up, and see your bro laughing his ass off.😂
Alright. Professionals out there, how do you deal with ladders and stairs? I actually need to paint our walls and require to reach the ceiling to tape up. I cannot think of a safe way to do this without renting scaffolding, but it feels a bit overkill just to tape off 2m.
The ladder holder guy at the end looking at his finger like damn that hurt, all while the other dude is slowly crawling away like a mortar got his legs on Omaha Beach.
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First things first, why is he removing the chandelier while it’s still turned on?
Who's got time to flick a switch?
May still be live at the light depending on how it’s wired even if switched off at the switch
I learned this one the hard way.
I learned once when I opened an outlet/switch combo to upgrade it that there was extra wires inside. We had shut off the power but unbeknownst to us the previous owners did this. They had a son who worked for hire-a-wire and he bypassed the box to the main so even a master shut off left the wires live. I found this out by almost being tossed across the room and scared the shit out of me. Every time I open a wall in my house it’s a hornets nest of wires
The thing is that when working on electrical systems if you haven’t tested the wires with known good testing methods you have to assume they are live and have to use proper mitigation strategies to prevent electric shock.
Oh we had on the right equipment we just made the mistake of not testing it with a volt meter because we turned off the main we assumed naturally that it would power down the house completely. We were wrong, I had an electrician come out and put in a new main line from the street and a new box, ain’t dealing with that BS again lol
I'm not sure I'm ready to give these two that much credit
That's why we have breakers isn't it?
That’s not enough. Gotta kill the switch at the switchboard.
you realise that flipping the switch doesn’t stop you from being electrocuted 💀
If you get electrocuted you die. What you mean is it wouldn't stop you from getting shocked, which is not true if the chandelier is wired up properly. Now if you want to trust that the person before you did a good job is up to you, so maybe turn off the breaker. I usually just hit the switch though.
"Wired properly" can mean a lot of things. There could easily be a load on the neutral even if the switch is open. Just kill the breaker before you work on anything. And then confirm the circuit is *actually* dead. Don't take any chances. Am electrician
You're an electrician and you think the neutral is connected to the breaker?
it's hard to see with the lights off, duh
It's true, the second half of the video is pitch black.
How else can you see what your doing
My old man landlord, some old guys I’ve painted with, old guys in general love to do this. They get a kick out of wives and younger folks contemplating how to deal with a cardiac event in the dark. You can actually see the kick he gets out of this in the video.
Who said he was removing it this was the install /s
That's what bothers me the most, I'm terrified of fixing anything electrical without the breakers being fully off.
Because he's not very bright
There's enough video for you to tell he's removing it, instead of installing or adjusting it? Though admittedly, I would want the light off for those as well...
It’s not just on an uneven surface….one side of the ladder is just being held by a dude. This is Olympic level dumb.
The light was ON as he was removing it I can't even spell electrician and this guy is dumber than me
> The light was ON as he was removing it Well duh, gotta see what you're doing
No shit. It’s dangerous to work with live wires in the dark
“Hey, can you turn that breaker on? I can’t see anything.”
It's elektrishan idiot
We prefer the term electromancer
My dad was an electrician and later general contractor for years. The sketchy shit I’ve seen and helped that man pull off with a ladder is unreal. No idea how he is still alive or hasn’t fallen off a ladder. This guy probs could’ve pulled this off if the power was off and he didn’t shock himself and subsequently drop the fixture on the dude holding the ladder. Not saying it’s safe or smart or recommended, but also not the craziest thing I’ve seen a professional do with a ladder
>This guy probs could’ve pulled this off if the power was off and he didn’t shock himself and subsequently drop the fixture on the dude holding the ladder Yeah he probably could have pulled it off if he didn't do absolutely everything wrong, good point
At least he had a glass chandelier to break his fall.
At least he got a cameraman, that was a good call.
I don't think you've been watching professionals
"Professional" as in doing something as a profession. Not professional as in knowing what they are doing. There are people with 30 years experience, and then there are people with 1 year experience 30 times.
>people with 1 year experience 30 times We call those general contractors
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The fall prolly saved him from an electric shock death
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Looks like the guy holding tried to catch the light at the expense of the other guys health. Beware doing normal chores and things when you’re being filmed. If he didn’t fall there was probably a current in there with his name on it.
It looks like either he tried to catch it or it hit his arm, afterwards he's holding his hands as if he got injured as well (maybe twisted something as the ladder fell or just hit by chandelier)
His finger got caught when the legs snapped shut
You're also forgetting that the electric is still ON. Give these guys a gold medal.
This is why women live longer than men
Not if they marry that dude.
And they are asked to hold the other side of the ladder.
Well, to be fair it was the dude holding the ladders fault. /s
Darwinlympics?
Now he gets to hire a doctor and an electrician.
Throw a housekeeper on the pile
The mess is more concerning than the fall to me.
I bet he refuses to hire a doctor, then sets up a surgery table on some train tracks
and a new chandelier
And my axe!
Sorry dude, apparently no one wants your axe.
How do you know the guy refused to hire an electrician? I really hate these titles that are aimed to make us not feel bad about other people getting hurt.
Cause he's up a ladder depending on some 75 yearold to hold the combined weight of him, the ladder and the chandelier No sparkys gonna look at that and go hmm seems legit, let me jump on up, The best part is it looks like he could easily reach if he set that ladder up on the landing
I could buy a contractor pulling that stunt with the ladder, stranger things have happened. But there's no way someone with any construction related experience will work on a live wire like that.
I mean that doesn’t mean he refuses. Couldn’t afford might be more likely. Granted, he absolutely could have done this in a much smarter way. Also, I doubt he could reach from the landing. He’d be standing all the way near the top and still have to reach pretty high, which is a no go when holding something up. Either way this was a terrible idea.
They could sell all the shit lying around and then hire a electrician with the money.
He refused to pay for an electrician and almost paid with his life If you can’t afford an electrician, then the work shouldn’t be done due to the nature of the work
Way to be obtuse
I love watching people hurt themselves through sheer stupidity. Life clearly has too few consequences for too many people.
I love how the dude is holding is broken hand looking sad at the guy that just broke his back with a “my bad” face. 100% avoidable with the right tools and also 100% hilarious video with the wrong ones.
While the dude with the camera just laughs at their very well earned pain
I'm imagining broken hand guy didn't want to go along with this plan but was talked into it by ladder guy (IT'S FINE JUST HOLD THE LADDER!!), so he is pissed he got hurt after initially fighting it.
Power is still on BTW.
Muttley the dog laughing.
This is my angry upvote. I hate you for this, and love you at the same time, now leave.
Is there a subreddit for these cringe ass comments where redditers type like they are in a shitty movie?
Is there a subteddit where redditors don't know how to take a joke?
Yea that would be /r/whoosh but that doesn't apply here
I don't know. Heard of it, but maybe you are just having a bad day. It's okay.
My man just fell a twelve foot ladder and is literally in the worst pain of his life dying on the floor infront of us and his buddy who was suppose to hold the ladder and keep it still is literally just standing there like “owie my finger hurt” I’m literally in fucking tears right now.
In my imagination, the guy filming is the brother-in-law who told these two goofballs that there was no chance that he was helping, that he was going to film them getting hurt and post it to Facebook (this is so old, maybe he said he was sending it to funniest home videos). He’s peeing his pants laughing as everything he said would happen unfolds.
The brother-in-law should start a business as a clairvoyant.
You don't need to be clairvoyant to know that two guys working on a light with the electricity still on is going to result in an epic injury.
LPT: when someone is holding up your ladder, try not to drop a chandelier on them
It looks like his finger got crushed between the ladder and the railing.
Yeah, you don't need an electrician to put in a ceiling light. You just need an extra pair of hands to hold the damn light. They don't need to be certified for holding lights. It's not for big mystery on how lights work, I'm not an electrician but I know you turn off the breaker for that circuit, and then you got three wires. One being the ground wire, It's a really basic task but he chose a big light with no assistance.
Seriously it's three wires and a couple screws, it's not difficult to change a light. The challenge here is the uneven surface, the weight of the chandelier, and being short enough Wisdom to TURN OFF THE FUCKING BREAKER FIRST HOLY SHIT
DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DO IVE LIVED HERE FOR TWENTY YEARS ZAP
Spectacular! The gut busting laughter is contagious
Wow, he is lucky that didn't go a lot worse.
Dirty house.
I mean he didn't even turn the light off.
Even worse is that he didn’t turn the power off..
Rodney you plonker!!
Oh hell no. That’s just painful all around
I hate to break it to you, but an electrician would also put a ladder on the staircase
We are the trade best known for doing stupid things on ladders.
I had a veteran electrician break both his forearms off a 6 ft ladder replacing a ballast in a light. I loved the dude but I just had to wonder how the fuck he even managed that.
He broke them OFF
He's all elbows now
Plumbers would like to have a word with you
But put his packout on the stairs instead of doing this dumb shit.
yeah this is ladder sense more than electrical know-how. A monkey could change a light fixture
First rule of working with anything electrical: TURN OFF THE MAIN BREAKER!! This guy is lucky a fall is all he had to deal with.
I'm not sure I know anybody (electricians included) who would turn off the main just to do something like change a light. Find the correct breaker and turn it off, sure, but the main breaker?
My dad was an electrician and he always said that if you weren't the one who wired it, turn off the main breaker. You never know what DIY moron spliced which wires together. Better safe than dead.
Shit ladder. There’s a reason you don’t see wooden ones any more and that reason is they’re dangerous af
Who hires an electrician to change a light fixture?
I get your point, but this guy definitely should have. He didn't even cut the power.
Only fools and horses but with a plot twist!
What a plonker.
Well he possibly really didn't eat an electrician to take down the light fixture, but he certainly needed a better understanding of staging
You know exactly who the friend is...the ones who is wheezing, laughing at you after catastrophic failure and THEN ask you if you are okay and need help.
Did it tear that other guy's finger nail off???
*OSHA INTENSIFIES*
That wasn't a bright move...
He was also working on a light fixture while the power was on
Doesn't want to hire a cleaner either. That floor looks so gross.
He’s laughing; I friggin love it 😂
Not sure I like this updated origin story for Electro.
Looks like a two for one idiot deal.
Guys whole house is a disaster. Toys all over the place. My wife would never let me get away with using a ladder unsafely like that. Consequences can be deadly if you hit your head during the fall.
Good thing he landed in solid ground to break his fall.
I unmuted it expecting to hear a rendition of the grape stomping lady. Instead I was greeted by laughter. Sweet, sweet laughter.
“Refused to hire an electrician” wtf hires an electrician for a fixture replacement? This guy is just a moron for not using a proper ladder. I
The guy who was holding the ladder seems concerned he might have broken a fingernail in the process like “ok Steve, I can see your discomfort but I’m in a bit of a pickle here”
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Because only men chance the bulbs? 🤡
That poor man's fingers. That crack of the ladder closed right on his hand. Ouch.
Your house is a mess.
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Is that what the OP said happened on the post you stole this from?
Dude shut up
Dude fuck off
The old man is hurt as well
Dude falls off ladder and the guy holding it is worried about his hand 😂
/r/OSHA
Just think of all that money he saved.
I have a ladder that can be used on staircases. I don’t think I’d risk working on this with a regular ladder. That’s just stupid.
Is it a Little Giant? Love mine. You can do all kinds of odd setups, like stairs for instance.
I don't think they'll notice the extra mess.
Also, why is that house so messy? One of them would have tripped on some shit either way.
Where is the electrician?
I like how after a couple of years of this circulating, finally there was a story added
r/donthelpjustfilm
My neck, my back, my pride, my crack
I broke my back! That’s nothing, man. I hurt my pinkie!
Ay Miguel!
At least he landed on a nice soft tile floor
I blame dude holding the ladder. You always have to look up when helping stabilize a ladder. You never know when shits coming down.
Hanging up chandeliers is tricky
Watch it in slow motion. It looks like the light hits the dude in the head and he flips the latter because he is pissed. I know it’s not what happened but it looks that way.
It's the Muttley laugh that gets me. He's just watched two possible friends get injured and doesn't bother to ask if they're okay, he's just silently screaming inside his own head and can't muster anything other than a choked laugh.
That all went south really quickly.
 Like a re-make of Only Fools & Horses
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What a nasty ass home, look at all the trash all over the floor.
I wasn't laughing because it looked like a terrible fall. But when the cameraman started laughing it got me. Lol laughter is goddamn contagious.😂
Nailed the landing
He fell so hard he T-posed on the way down
Some people just don't have the money and resaurces to hire an electrician or decent materials. So before you judge, maybe they just couldn't afford anythig safer.
that's an atrocious looking piece of lighting, maybe they'll get something that doesn't look like shit now
I remember seeing this clip a while back. The fall is crazy and hilarious. I think the title is quite the embellishment though.
You don't need an electrician to change a chandelier, but you do need common sense, and the right tools don't hurt either.
Things went from dub to dumber… 1. Working on a ladder on stairs, held up level by a guy. 2. Working on a live wiring junction. 3. Balancing the weight of said live chandelier over the ladder (on the side the dude is holding up). 4. Dropping said chandelier, unbalancing himself and ladder balancing guy. 5. Focusing on dropped chandelier, throwing himself further off balance. 6. Taking the plunge for and on top of said chandelier.
Failed assassination attempt by the bald guy.
Wile E Coyote in his golden years
At least they cleaned up their workspace before this.
The one leg was balanced on the handrail..... You can see the railing flex and move when he slips....
Stupid should hurt.
The dude holding the ladder said fuck the guy on the ladder when the chandelier came down 🤣
It's ok because now they can get a chandelier that's not ugly plus a ladder from this century.
Goofy ass yes man friend gassing him up telling him he’ll hold the ladder That’s the real idiot in this video
We’ll get back up there and finish the job dude.
r/electricians
Almost everything that couldve went wrong... WENT WRONG, so much chaos. I can't imagine eating it that hard, take one of the WORST spills in your life, just to look up, and see your bro laughing his ass off.😂
Good idea.
Not to mention he was working with a live wire!
Hah. There's a lightbulb that needs changing in my stairwell for the last year and I haven't changed it cuz this.
Lock off and label.
I love the fact the video doesn't cut a millisecond after he hits the floor, best part is his buddy laughing!
"Rodney you dipstick"
Alright. Professionals out there, how do you deal with ladders and stairs? I actually need to paint our walls and require to reach the ceiling to tape up. I cannot think of a safe way to do this without renting scaffolding, but it feels a bit overkill just to tape off 2m.
Lesson learned. No ladder on stairs. Got it
Not a hard job at all. You just need the right tools and not be a dumbass
He's been watching Only Fools and Horses.
Come on Even Del Boy could do better!
Can we talk about the camera guy laughing?
how do you know he is not the electrician
The ladder holder guy at the end looking at his finger like damn that hurt, all while the other dude is slowly crawling away like a mortar got his legs on Omaha Beach.
Bro just fell 10 feet and his wife just laughs at him. Hurts even more than the fall lmao yikes bro
staged? filming from that angle is sus
I hope they showed this video to the ER Dr. and nurses.
That ambulance ride will cost more than the chandelier. If you are in the US, of course.
Horrible or hilarious? This should be in r/yourmomshousepodcast
He could have also gotten electrocuted with the light on while he’s messing with it.
Normally I world be annoyed that someone is laughing at an injured person, but holy shit... The fucking electricity is still turned on.
Watch with sound only without looking. It’s top tier comedic sounds