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I'm reminded of my friend's old condo. Somebody had used steel branding to strap the outlet for the mounted microwave directly to the gas line.
Microwave: 'If I fail, I'm taking y'all with me'
I keep reading and re reading this sentence and yet I can't make sense of it
Okay I fixed a typo, but a more complicated explanation. My friend's old place had a microwave mounted above the oven, and one day the mounting broke and the microwave fell out. In the wall behind it, the gas line fed into the oven, and strapped to that was an electrical outlet. The microwave has been plugged into that outlet. An outlet is supposed to be rigged inside a little box that's connected to conduit which the actual electrical wires are inside of. Instead though, whoever wired the thing didn't do that - they just had some conduit end, capped of the unused wires, wired in a 2-plug outlet, and used metal banding to just strap that onto the gas line. Which is all unsafe AF.
I'm gathering that through sheer incompetence, they rigged a spy movie improvised bomb
Cut the blue wire!
That microwave was over bored mouse away from leveling an entire 3 story building.
The first gas powered microwave oven.