Indeed - as you say, unlikley, but not impossible.
I would agree, however as a boy doing my homework on kitchen counter top I noted bulb missing from counter lamp, could not see inside so felt inside to find what was in it. I found a pin which was spring loaded, then I touched the other pin, seems switch had broken so dad had removed the bulb. I learnt never to do that again. Even after 58 years I still remember it. However it was not "lethal" I can tell the story some 58 years latter. And back then there were no RCD's.
Ah, do you mean that the electricity has got 'stronger', hence more dangerous?
... or maybe we were more 'thick-skinned' back then? Thinner skin would certainly increase the risk of electrocution, even if the electricity itself had not got any stronger!
It should indeed. Many parents however seem incapable of doing so.
Of course it has everything to do with that distance!
We've been through this before. In what you've just quoted, I said that accessibility to children has not necessarily got anything to do with distance from socket to lamp. As I've said, more than once, in my bedroom I would regard the lamp on our dressing table, with a 2-3m 'trailing' lead, as being more of a hazard to unsupervised children than are the two bedside lamps with very short leads. The dressing table has a strategically-placed chair up which they can climb, and the 'trailing lead' is easily tugged to bring the lamp crashing to the floor.
Indeed you have. I have disagreed, more than once. Shall we stop now?
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