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Even the one rule that always hold one hand behind your back when testing high voltages with a meter does not always work. I used to repair spas, The husband of this spa called so out I went. Usually, the first thing one does is take ones hand and dip it in the water to check for purity and temperature. Got a jolt and threw me 10 feet. Checked the GFI with the meter using the precaution of using one hand. Got another jolt, fortunately not as bad. The completed circuit must have gone through my shoes on the wet concrete. Still not sure how. Replaced the GFI and then found a short in the heater element and replaced it. The lady of the house came out and asked me why I had to fix the spa. I asked her if she had been using it. She said that she had been. Amazed, I then asked her if she felt anything when she got in. And she said she felt a tingling, but thought that was normal for how a spa worked. She must have had the hide of a walrus. Good thing, you can imagine what kind of lawsuit that would have been.