Re: pressure cookers was Re: Need recommendations on security

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> 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.
>
>

Sound like you and one otter poster were the ones who did things with 
occupied outhouses at Halloween (and other times.)

Akin the buggy on the roof.

Or our modern geeks at Cal Tech (room full of balloons, assembled 
automobiles, you name it.) Only the really good ones hit the papers.

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