The disconnected main earth raises all sorts of horrible possibiliies. With a 2-year old on the property the danger is magnified.
It also makes you wonder how the earth stake connection could detach like that. Most likely it wasn't terminated properly during the original installation.
It seems to me Trumpy, that problems like this have become way more common after de-regulation. ( DE-REGULATION rant to follow: )
I think that the "de-regulation" of the industry has paved the way for 1st year apprentices to wire a new house and then have his work signed off by a guy in the office who has never been to the site.
De-regulation has removed an adherence to sound engineering principles and replaced it with "risk management".
This may sound a little communist but I don't believe electrical safety standards should be decided by the free market.
End of Rant.
