[identity profile] resonant.livejournal.com 2016-12-22 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Then you get evicted, and a team of electricians comes to work on your former house before selling it.

They carefully shut off and lock out the power at the main panel. Every electrician puts a padlock on the panel lockout, so they are absolutely sure there is no power to the house wiring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockout-tagout

They then start to upgrade the supposedly-dead electrical system.

[identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com 2016-12-22 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup. Just, there is a real-world use for those cables and a reason people want them, and also why the hardware store in question, which is in the business of making arbitrarily-long outdoor power cords, wants to NOT make them.

[identity profile] ironphoenix.livejournal.com 2016-12-23 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
And that's why the proper procedure is lockout-tagout-CHECK.