Jarrad Goulding shows why people filing down the earth pin on plugs to fit larger ones into smaller outlets is deadly. The modified plug, called a suicide plug, can cause immediate electrocution and is illegal but surprisingly common.
That's electrocution waiting to happen. Oh yes, my favorite. This is a common one. We come across the old earth pin being filed down. People will do this. It might be that they're trying to fit a 15amp socket into a 10amp plug. All of our, most of our plugs 10amp. So what creative people will do is they will file, get a file angle grinder and they'll file down the earth pin so it'll plug into the output. Highly illegal and highly dangerous. There's a reason why they make them so long. Is it so it will only fit in to a 15amp socket and people come along and file them down just because it's easier. They don't want to run an extension cord or whatever and it's very dangerous and we find them all the time. Wow. Okay. That is a suicide plug. Plugged into an outlet which is switched on. That's the quickest way for someone to die straight away. And it's scary. Very. These things are out there.
