Shower Electrocution in France

Interestingly, over the years I have spoken to several  folk who have either had a belt from a lamp holder or know someone who has, so  I think it is quite a common childhood shock mechanism

Yes, you can add me to that list too. In my younger days the indoor Christmas tree lights (for reasons I've yet to fathom) seemed to be wired into a BC plug - and if there wasn't a handy lampholder near to the tree, a length of flex with a plug on one end and a BC lampholder on the other was used. Twiddling with the empty lampholder while waiting for some detail of the tree decoration to be sorted out...  Mind you I did seem to have a predisposition for getting shocks at that age, there was the 'I wonder if the element of the radiant electric fire gets hot after it's switched on but before it glows' experiment (the guards in those days weren't quite fingerproof for small fingers...)


  - Andy.

Interestingly, over the years I have spoken to several  folk who have either had a belt from a lamp holder or know someone who has, so  I think it is quite a common childhood shock mechanism

Yes, you can add me to that list too. In my younger days the indoor Christmas tree lights (for reasons I've yet to fathom) seemed to be wired into a BC plug - and if there wasn't a handy lampholder near to the tree, a length of flex with a plug on one end and a BC lampholder on the other was used. Twiddling with the empty lampholder while waiting for some detail of the tree decoration to be sorted out...  Mind you I did seem to have a predisposition for getting shocks at that age, there was the 'I wonder if the element of the radiant electric fire gets hot after it's switched on but before it glows' experiment (the guards in those days weren't quite fingerproof for small fingers...)


  - Andy.