Comic book physics, mostly!<br/><br/>That's why you got a hero point, since it was a fairly unlikely result, but I rolled a natural 1 for your grapple check, so I chose to throw a complication at you.  You can negate the result by spending the hero point, if you want.<br/><br/>(I think the idea is that the electricity is so high voltage that it flows through non conducting material, but the main reason is because the story says things should start off with a shocker)