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Naughty Alexa!

AncientMariner

Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59810383

I wonder what the legal position would be if someone had followed Alexa's instructions and not survived? Manslaughter?

Besides the chance of a severe electric shock, burns from the flash would have been very likely.

Having once cut a 6 mm² twin & earth cable which was live with a pair of side-cutters, (fortunately insulated), the flash and the bang is still clear in my mind. My Bahco side-cutters were not too good looking either...

I had earlier taken the fuse (30A) out, and then put it back in......  

Clive

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  • The older (pre-sleeved pins) 13A plugs take a modern decimal penny as a close fitting all-poles short. A similar stunt works with a bayonet lamp holder. In my experience when the teacher comes in and puts the lights on the fuse blows and the rest of the lesson is lost, with much flurry and fluster so questions are not asked about missing homework. Schools may have changed in their attitudes meanwhile, since 1980 or so. Perhaps Alexa's homework is also not to the standard.

    Professionally, I cannot condone or recommend such activities.

    M.

    PS Oddly I have a pair of cutters with chunk blown off the blades as well. I guess the volume removed is a proxy for let-through energy of the protective device - perhaps a chart of notch sizes could be used to identify the pssc and or fuse wire ratings that were involved.

  • in reply to mapj1

    In the 70's, my young son at the crawling stage, pushed a yale key in between an unsleeved  13A plug inserted in a socket - luckily, just a flash and bang. These unsleeved plugs are probably still around, should we look out and code these on an EICR ?, I would just replace them!

    Jaymack

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  • in reply to mapj1

    In the 70's, my young son at the crawling stage, pushed a yale key in between an unsleeved  13A plug inserted in a socket - luckily, just a flash and bang. These unsleeved plugs are probably still around, should we look out and code these on an EICR ?, I would just replace them!

    Jaymack

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