Electricmanscott,
Yes you are right. How dumb of me. It just ticks me off when an AHJ goes above and beyond what the NEC requires. As for myself as an AHJ I try VERY hard not to do that. I try to go right by the book. I heard of a state inspector making an EC put Armaflex ( a type of pipe wrap) around a sprinkler pipe where the EC's MC wire was touching it. He reason was that if the MC touched the fire pipe it would create a redundant ground or something.
