If you spray a water gun in the air and the stream connects with an electrical wire, could the current travel down the stream of water and kill you?
If you are referring to standard residential overhead electrical wires extremely unlikely. You would have to spray a section of a live wire (not a neutral) while in contact with water in the gun, while also touching wet ground in bare feet. The zap would be fractions of a second because your arm would twitch and redirect the stream away from the wire. The odds of feeling anything are slim at best. Most wires going from utility poles to houses are cable TV or phone, which pose near zero risk. However, if you are referring a high voltage primary (the very high wires that feed large transformers), these wires are commonly not insulated and can carry in excess of 4,000-100,000 volts. It would kill you in a second, arcing through the squirt gun to your hand. There are restrictions as to how close these wires can be to the ground, and the average squirt gun simply can't shoot that far. So in short, unless you have a very good squirt gun under a high tension wire, you're fine.
