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How Not to Keep From Blowing a Fuse

Have you ever gotten frustrated when, for some arcane electrical reason, a circuit keeps popping, and-since you aren't an electrician-you can't figure out the problem?

What a pain in the posterior. I mean, you're just trying to get your job done. All you need is a steady flow of current, for goodness sake. But everything keeps going dead, and you've got to go back to that dadblamed circuit box, open the cover, and fool around some more.

OSHA inspectors in Maryland found this example of a serious solution. I'm not saying we recommend it, though, because this will make safety specialists and inspectors blow their fuses. Unless the reason for the original problem gets a lot more dramatic and a fire or electrocution is the result. Then the real pain will have started, the kind that makes an inconvenience seem awfully minor.