What The Fluff Did I Do?

[Rodak]

Ya ever hear people tell stories about being the type who are often the one under the street light when it goes out?

It happens to me often.

I usually just blame my Aura or something and ignore it.

But Something inexplicable just happened.

I flipped a light switch, and the bulb flashed bright and went out.

Nothing weird there. Light bulbs are made in China these days and therefore pieces of crap.

But when I went to the next room the bulb there wasn't working.

I did a check and found EVERY LIGHT BULB IN THE HOUSE BURNT OUT! Even the fluorescent ones in the kitchen.

The power was fine.

I did not pop a single circuit breaker. There were computers and a VCR and even the Playstation on at the time and none show any signs of trouble at all.

The power never went out.

I just blew out every light bulb in the house (It's a free standing house... not connected to any neighbors {none of whom had anything effected}).

Anyone have any ideas WHAT THE FLUFF JUST HAPPENED???

[the_fencer0]

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Ooooo Oooo Oooo! (Scary three note Oooo) You and luminesence technology must not get along. I hope your flashlight worked, or your shins will curse you forever. ^_^

[Shard]

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Kindly stay the hell away from my Easy Bake Oven.

[Rodak]

Re: What The Fluff Did I Do?

Kindly stay the hell away from my Easy Bake Oven.

Oddly, the only light bulb to survive was the one in the microwave oven.

I think having a transformer between the outlet and the bulb shunted the surge... assuming there is a mundane explanation for this...

Oy.

[Roland Of Gilead]

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Oy.

Ake! Ake!

[EternalMoogle]

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I have no idea how you did that, but it's really cool. You must have some mad skillz you didn't even know about.

[Garr123]

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Maybe a power surge? I get that **** where street light always turn off around me. I think it's just coincedence.

[jvrlopez]

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OMG A GHOST IT HAS TO BE THAT OMG

[Splitter]

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I've heard of people who can kill digital watches, but not all the light bulbs in a house.
Dude, you should fight crime.
You could be known as the "Light Killer," and strike fear into the hearts of naughty people.

[Rodak]

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Dude, you should fight crime.

I HAVE THE POWER!!!

[Riotsword]

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You just might be a mutant. Quick, go find Professor Xavier!

[Fushigi na Renamon]

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Wow. That's spooky. o_O

I sure wouldn't be so composed if that happened to me. Then again, I just don't like the dark. >.>

I hope you have some replacement bulbs around.

[Magus]

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Isn't it obvious?

[BlueSenshi]

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Interesting note: The street lights in my town (and probably quite a few others) are set to shut off a few at a time (not adjacent) throughout the night to save energy. So it's quite common to watch a street light go out at random. I see one almost every time I drive at night.

As for every light in your house going out at once... Were any of the lightbulbs considerably newer than the others? If so, that's really strange. If they were all pretty old, however... that's not as strange. I've had two lights go out in the same day before. Let's see... do you leave all your lights on most or all of the time?

[Rodak]

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I have a good friend who finished electrician training stuff and got certified (but then took a job making stained glass windows... Bloody Artists!!) and he was here, checked out the fuse box with meters as a formality, but told me right off that this was impossible.

The bulbs are not all on the same circuit.

There were many bulbs whose switches were off.

There was no detectable problem with the circuitry.

Any surge strong enough to do that should have blown other stuff that was on at the time.

The bulbs were from all different times over the last 8 years.

The fluorescent tubes in the kitchen looked old when I arrived here that long ago.

I also had some of those funny curly low watt things, some normal bulbs, and bulbs in free lamps, ceiling mounts and even one in a work shop hangy-down thing.

There was no common denominator.


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