Man was not Meant to Control Lightning!

Their is something inherently funny about cartoon diagrams of people in pain.  Take for example this lovely gallery of what is apparently a pre-high quality insulated wire era of America.  Apparently in the era of sepia tones all people were doing ridiculously stupid things with their electronic devices, as opposed to today where it seems to mostly take place in Japan.

Also, these pictures prove my theory that in the 1940s animals ruined everything.

(Via Bre Pettis)