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Posted by Pop` on December 23, 2006, 2:16 pm
hallerb@aol.com wrote:
> Eric in North TX wrote:
>> Personally I tire of hearing about ungrounded outlets. Reality check;
>> my bet is that well over half of the dwellings in the U.S. have
>> ungrounded outlets, and people have lived long full lives in them.
>> I'll also bet that your chances of actually having a fatal or even
>> debilitating shock are up there with winning the lottery and getting
>> struck by lightning. This is all just hype, part of the lowest common
>> denominator, lets idiot proof everything thing. I say lets thin out
>> the gene pool, why let idiots live to reproduce more idiots.
>
> well over the years I have haD SOME APPLIANCES INTERNALLY SHORT TO
> GROUND, PRIMARILY WIRES BURNING OFF AND HITTING THE FRAME:(
>
> anyhow if these werent grounded someone could of gotten a lethal
> shock......... children and elderly are espically at risk.
>
> I also see this in my business I repair offce machines primarily roll
> laminators. At least once a month a wire burns off a switch or
> similiar.
>
> ground has indeed saved lives
"could of"? could have
"espically"? especially
"business I"? business. I
"office"? office
"ground"? Ground
YOU have a "business offce"? Wow!
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