E57,

Sorry I buried it so far down as to make it unclear:

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The risks are so large that neither the NEC nor the listing agencies are willing to say 'safe enough', and the risks are large enough that they have killed people, and I would never advocate using this sort of installation, but none the less the risks are very small. Essentially a proper cost versus benefit analysis says that this cord is far too dangerous to use, but such an analysis weighs a small risk against the cost of killing someone.

I totally agree that this system is not acceptable. But it dangerous in the same way that driving with a BAC of 0.2 is dangerous; you will _probably_ get home just fine, but the chances that you will kill yourself or someone else are so much greater than 'baseline' that the danger is unacceptable and illegal.

-Jon