Long ago, an inspector came to my job, and he still had tears in his eyes from laughing so hard.

Seems a homeowner had taken a permit to wire his basement. When the inspector got there, this fella had is EE degree, and his state PE stamp conspicuously displayed. The inspector got to the bottom of the steps, followed closely by this guys wife, who extolled the virtues of this guys wiring.

"Well, ya gotta lotta phone outlets down here" the inspector said, "but where's the electrical outlets?"

Yup, the genius had used phone cable for his outlets, seems he read in the code that outlets are designed for 180 va and he knew that the phone cable would hold that [Linked Image]

Yep, he took polaroids and I got to see 'em.