You gotta love walking into an area that's being actively flooded and seeing equipment that's still live.
My gradpa always said if you keep yourself properly grounded nothing will shock you.
If you keep yourself "grounded," i.e. earth potential, you'll definitely get shocked in most scenarios. In order to not get shocked, you either isolate the circuit you're working on from the mains with an isolation transformer and don't complete a circuit with 2 hands or you isolate yourself from "ground." The guys who work on high-voltage lines are isolated from "ground" plus charged to the potential of the high voltage line they're working on.
The electricity definitely wants to get to "ground" potential. If you're "grounded," it's gonna go through YOU to get there if you let it.
He was trolling you. Being grounded is what will get you shocked.
That’s fine except when you’re the conduit to ground.
This only applies to static electricity.
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