Re: pressure cookers was Re: Need recommendations on security

DougW wrote:

> I got very lucky and was poking at it with a stick.

That reminds me of a stupid thing I did when I was a kid.

<many long years ago when a kid could grow up in Gulf Coast Texas
without any air conditioning>

We had a large whole house fan the size of an attic fan in a window
which for some reason was plugged into an extension cord, and sometime I
had 'observed' the plugging or unplugging of the running fan to create
some sparks.

I then 'spied' that the plug of the running fan barely showed the
visible prongs of the plug, not being 100% engaged.  Hmm.  Same prong
plugs that make the sparks.  Neat.

Hmm.  May be dangerous.  Better be careful.  [If you're going to be
stupid, you might as well be carefully stupid.]

Let me see.  Get two wooden pencils and a pair of scissors.  [A pair of
my mother's favorite scissors.]  Open the scissors with the pencils in
the finger holes and then carefully close the scissor blades onto the
two barely exposed prongs.

Snap!   Pop!   Sparks!  Lots, but they didn't last long.  Permanently
damaged scissors and plug prongs, fan quietly coasts to a stop, power
off in the house as the old fashioned fuse blew.

>From somewhere else in the house, "Miii - kuuuul!   What are you doing
now?  Are you all right?"


That would be the same lady who had to climb to the top of a windmill
amidst the whirling blades and changing vane in high and variable winds
to fetch me down when I was really really little.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin