As I mentioned in another thread this practice can and does lead to electric shock.

There are plug in testers that will detect these sort of jack leg techniques but they cost about three hundred dollars. Those testers are becomming more popular with home inspecters and they do provide a lot of information.
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Tom

Tom Horne

"This alternating current stuff is just a fad. It is much too dangerous for general use" Thomas Alva Edison