[JeffM]

The same that the lawyers make in cases
where someone poured hot coffee over themselves and then sued.
Unfortunately. I don't like it
that people are financially rewarded for their stupidity by a jury
but that's the way it often is right now.

The analogy you're missing is: To test something,
*you* build a system that had probes which had 1000V on them
when 5V would easily do the task
and 700 people who used it told you it was a stupid design.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cach...+reduced-*-*+third-degree-*+above.140.degrees
http://www.google.com/search?q=cach...r-than-140-*-*#Evidence_presented_to_the_jury

 

[Joerg]

It's pronounced "Harbor Fright"

Hmm, so far none of them broke. I bought five of the little meters. One
was dead so they just sent another for free. The only downside is that
your mailbox fills with all sorts of catalogs afterwards.

 

[przemek klosowski]

Seriously, I've seen a guy who started a car, unclipped the jumper
cables from the helper car so the other guy could head off to the
hardware store and left the now hot cables laying on the garage floor
while revving his engine.

I am in habit of clipping one clamp over the insulation sleeve of the
other clamp whenever my jumper cable is off the battery (grab the wrist
of your left hand with your right hand to see what I mean).