Oh hey it’s a felony tube.
Seems more like a flash light
While it will make a flash of light, it can only do it once.
What if a flash light was all at once?
I don’t get it
pipe bomb
“Harry I’ve found the source of ticking sound”
Toothbrush
Hand warmer.
You know its good satire when you gotta think for a minute about whether this was serious or not.
Well if it was real they would have realized the mistake the moment they plugged it in. Since it’s plugged in for the picture, we know they are doing satire
Every time I see US sockets, I get the heebie jeebies. Or any non-recessed socket really, but at least most add insulation to the base of the prongs. No such luck here.
Meh, that’s only going to “coulda killed you”. The one piece metal wire will create a dead short across the circuit and trip it out instantly. He IS going to need new underwear and possibly pants also. He’ll have some scorched fingers with maybe a bit of temporary tingling in them after pissing off the angry pixies. But as far as death goes, god would need to be looking down directly at him and go “Fuck this guy, right now”. Not impossible, but it would require an exceptional amount of bad luck.
US outlets are safe. Not only does this out show a bit of recess at the surface, but the metal contacts that are carrying the current are also recessed inside about 1/8"/3mm where you can’t see them.
I dropped a penny into the gap between the plug and the socket when I was a toddler. The sparks were FANTASTIC, and long lasting, like a sparkler shooting up the wall.
My dad tried to remove the penny with his metal pliers, my mom stopped him before he killed himself. She yanked the cord and it stopped.
We saved the penny for awhile, might still be somewhere. It burned two trenches in the penny, it almost made it all the way through.
Lessons were learned.
What are you comparing this to? Same in Japan.
Probably European Schuko and British outlets, they are WAY better.
I think schuko is much more likely the British ones are not recessed
Yeah, I forgot, thanks for the correction.
Same in Switzerland, the non-recessed ones mustn’t be installed anymore. But just in case devices are plugged into flat ones you also get isolation on the non-earth pins on the new cables
Japanese outlets don’t even have a ground pin, only live and neutral. While that’s not a problem on low-voltage or plastic devices, it can be shockingly (haha) dangerous in combination with metal casings.
Boy are they gonna be shocked when he doesn’t make it.
That household is a hotspot of geniuses.
They have a bright future ahead of them.
I was hoping for an unusual cause of demise on that plaque. Sometimes old gravestones list a cause of death with wry humor.
I imagine there could be a lot of gravestones that just read “engineering”
Honestly, if it was plastic & around the block instead of the outlet, then that’ll be a pretty good idea. Plus, we have 3-D printers, so it should be easy
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I have to know whether this is a joke or not
It is a joke
Thank you, I’m choosing to believe you for my sanity
The left picture would’ve burned down the house otherwise
Isn’t the socket turned off?
Didn’t even notice that, in my country that doesn’t exist
Hahaha not funny
Notice how this pic was taken with flash
Literally the only good thing that could be said about this is that it’s on a brick wall. Otherwise that’s now the 3rd most dangerous electrical outlet I’ve ever seen.
How so? This one instantly trips a circuit breaker and then is quite safe. Now if the two hooks were separate, ir’d be a whole different matter…
That metal hook thing is shorting the circuit, acting as a resistor. That means it’ll heat up, and could easily start a fire.
the resistance isn’t nearly high enough for it to not trip the breaker before it heats up substantially.
That’s not how household power outlets work.
Which ones are first and second?
2nd worst: at my friend’s last place the microwave mounted over the stove fell out and he had me come look and fix it and I discovered that the outlet that powered the microwave was strapped to the gas line. No box, just the wires out the end of the conduit wired into the outlet there inside the wall. I told him to get an electrician, I was not touching that shit.
1st worst: basically looked like this.
Wow. You’ve seen things.
I am used to Schuko. American death traps scare me.
I’m used to the British plug which was over-engineered for our ring mains which economised copper after the war. Most plugs abroad feel pretty flimsy to me except the Schuko ones!
You will certainly not regret the IP4X hunk of plastic as big as a baby’s fist!
Jup
Harvard referring to the Harvard hospital, of course.
That’s the joke in the title.
Damn. And I thought I was so clever…
Reminds me of the movie where the protagonist Johnny 5 exclaims, “Number 5 is alive!”
It’ll be a great learning experience if the kids survives it.
Oh, he survived. He would need new underwear and possibly pants also. Might be some scorched fingers and possibly temporary tingling in the fingers, but the Angry Pixies wouldn’t kill him…This time.
