On May 28, 7:45�pm, Douglas Johnson wrote:
"HeyBub" wrote:
Balderdash! I want all children to have the same opportunities I had as a
lad.

Looking at all the car seats, safety belts, and other nanny stuff these days, �I
figure I didn't live past 25.

I have vivid memories of my first electric shock. �I pulled a plug from the wall
by it's cord. �I don't know the mechanism for the shock, but I do remember the
shock. I remember the exact location in the house. �We moved out of the that
house when I was four, so I was probably three.

If you add up all the probabilities of an improperly wired hot/neutral,
metal cabinet, and internal failure, you're looking at probably no more than
one in a million fatalities. What that means is that, of one million kids
who visit the OP's home and lick the toaster, only one will come to harm..

Those are good odds for any Greek.

According tohttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005110.html�there were 2,397,615
deaths from all causes in 2004. �

According tohttp://www.cpsc.gov/library/foia/foia09/os/2004electrocutions..pdf
there were an average of 60 electrocution deaths per year associated with
consumer products. �So it's like one death in 40,000 fatalities. �

While it is not a good idea to cut out ground prongs or put in ungrounded,
un-GFI'ed three prong outlets, it is a long ways down the list of things that
can kill you.

-- Doug

if a homeowner installs non grounded 3 prong outlets and a visitor
somehow gets killed will their homeowners pay or dis own the plicy
holder?