can you be electrocuted by sticking a finger into a plug socket?

Just tried it and yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssss, god that hurt.

Yes, i know of someone who is a paramedic, they have seen a little one killed by sticking something in a socket, put safty caps on them all and try to teach them it's not a good idea, honest!! Lil RT has always been good but it only takes one time..

are you a toddler?

No, unless you're a kid and then everything is possible.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kiddiproof-Socket-Covers-6Pk/dp/B000FKM9K4

Most decent sockets these days have coverer over the live and neutral. They are inside the cover and move out of the way when the earth pin is pushed in. Which is why the earth pin is longer

Very difficult without a pointy object, they (should) have tiny flap that stops you poking stuff in. It's fairly hard to do so even when you want to TBH – I spent a good minute trying to get a good reliable connection with my meter tips and that was with a screwdriver in the earth pin to lift the flaps. But kids are good at sticking wet fingers in holes and not all sockets are the newer type with the little flaps, so probably worth getting the little cap things.

Plus the litte flaps can break and jam.

put safty caps on them all

Really?

Not again?

The ones we have are extremely tight, to the point we have great difficulty removing them with a variety of levers and tools.

Interesting point about socket covers being dangerous. I just thought they were a waste of time when every socket has a built-in safety device already.

When our oldest was a toddler I caught him just in time as he was doing a fine job of shoving my house keys into a socket in the hall…….

scary!

Get some safety caps.

Not only do they prevent children electrocuting themselves, they also stop the electricity leaking out during the night.

If you've got a leaky socket, then dangerous quantities of electricity can collect in invisible, but utterly deadly puddles on your floor.

Alternatively, replace your carpet with chicken wire.

As a child I stuck a nail in a plug socket. I have no memory of it but apparently I hit the opposite wall before the floor. Didn't kill me tho.

Didn't we just do this?
Click for deja vu

My offer stands by the way – if I can find them

he he. Have any of you got kids?

Any enterprising child, especially a boy, will be able to lever up the earth cover in a couple of seconds with a wide variety of implements freely available around the house.

Get some plug covers as suggested above, they'll only slow the kids down but it'll give you the time needed to wrench them away when you find them with some stripped down earphones in their mouth with one lead in the neg and one in the pos.

My lad once used some car keys to lever up the cover in the five seconds my wife was trying to stop the video recorder from eating the jam buttie he'd placed in there, had a pencil in the pos hole and was looking round for something equally condutcive to ram in the other before she returned from the said sandwich protection mission.

Yes I do, an inquisitive young chap he is too – and there is no way I'd use socket covers