If we're talking HV anecdotes (glances warily at TPTB)...
I used to work in a TV repair shop in the early 80s in Plymouth. One of the owners came from the Rank Bush Murphy factory there, and _really_ should have known better, but...
There was a TV on the bench, back off, facing the wall, with a line output fault, and he wasn't sure whether it was it was in the EHT tripler/smoother circuit or earlier. I can't remember which chassis it was, but it was one of those more recent jobs where the LOPT also provided most of the rest of the voltages for the set, so all manner of problems could manifest as low/no line output.
Anyway, he had the EHT anode lead off, and the set on. He went to get the EHT meter, which was on a shelf above the bench, and in so doing bumped the chassis with his crotch. This had two immediate consequences, and one rather more long-term effect.
in short order, the EHT connector moved and made contact with the metal fly on his trousers, and the fault - subsequently traced to an intermittent solder joint in the line oscillator - temporarily cleared. The longer term consequences mostly wore off after a night in Freedom Fields hospital 'under observation' from a curiously attentive medical staff. Mostly.
Relevance to aviation? Yer man certainly got airborne.
R