Programs classified as PG (Parental Guidance) must not be screened before 6.30pm. Our story below is classified as PG so I had to drop it from the program. Whether a child under 15 will see the story and be influenced by it is possible. The story follows the exploits a man in Serbia, Slavija Pajtic, whose claim to fame is that he's a human conductor of electricity, a man whose highest goal was to sit in the electric chair to prove that he could survive the experience.

Fortunately the US who still uses such horrors to kill people, turned him down. But after seeing him in action you might well believe that Mr Pajtic would have withstood such a massive shock. Whether he'd be lightly fried or dead after the event, we'll never know. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction!

So let me take on the role of the parent here and advise anyone under 15 not to do anything Slavija Pajtic does in his story. IT COULD BE FATAL. The law assumes that anyone over 15 is intelligent enough not to copy what people on television do. Do I hear some cynical sniggering?

Seriously though children are more than capable in their innocence and, more importantly, in their ignorance, to carry out what they see on TV, with dire consequences. Take this blogger for example who at 10 years of age wasn't quite sure how electricity works. I did know it was dangerous. I could see the element on our old room heater slowly turning orange and I thought if I touched the metal coil just as I switched the power on I'd feel it getting hot and could quickly take my finger away as it go hotter. I switched the power on and slowly put my index finger to the coil. I don't think anyone explained to me what an "electric shock" is and how it works. The shock that jolted me was enough to teach me never to do anything like that again. A saying in my old country goes, "Telling you a wall is hard is not enough. You have to crash head first into it to realise it".

So with all these warnings and predictions of doom, please do the right thing if you are a child and DO NOT emulate what Slavija Pajtic does, under any circumstance. With that I hope you find his story amusing if not a little offbeat. His dabbling in electricity earned him a place in the Guinness Book of Records!