"Guy King" wrote in message
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Fourthly, in the vanishingly unlikely event of some little sprog
managing it the RCD will ensure they only get a belt strong enough to
scare the living daylights out of them rather than kill them. It worked
for me when I was about five. Except that was a table-lamp.

Haven't we all?

I'm glad that you and I lived to tell the tale but there are many little
blighters I'd willingly attach to a power source.

They're a gizmo sold by profiteering safety types who prey on the
insecurities of parents and the paranoia of safety departments who
insist on them for no good reason. I've had a good look over the years
and have never found any evidence of accidents happening which would
have been prevented by socket covers.

Indeed. Modern parents are easily influenced.

Mary