On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 21:19:53 UTC, Bill Wright wrote:
This was a sheltered housing scheme in Nottingham. We look after the
communal TV system.
The last time we were there was because the mains sockets in the
hallways had been changed by the electricians for ones with keys so that
the tenants can't plug scooters in (how mean is that?).

Scooters in hallways are an obstruction and may be a fire hazard if they're charging, quite apart from the cost of the lecky.

The real fault is with whoever allowed a critical system (ie telly) to be powered of a circuit shared by sockets accessible to untrained persons. (Even if the monkeys who broke things are nominally trained persons.)

Owain