Rowd, the only way is not safe and I just ran into one of the worst case senarios of this. An electrician jumpered the ground screw to the line neutral screw. The worst part came when he cross wired it, hot to neutral
neutral to hot. I discovered this when I plugged a drill into the GFI and went to drill a hole in a sub panel. Sparks flew and fuse blew in hidden fuse panel. Took a little time to track down where the fuse was and then pulled the GFI for the discovery. Luckily nobody hurt, just my got my heart pumping a little faster.
[This message has been edited by stamcon (edited 09-27-2002).]
