PSA: Found a dead short under a carpet tack strip

Went to a house in Phoenix last Thursday. Computer kept tripping the breaker. Pulled the tower away from the wall and saw a carpet tack strip pushed right through the power cable. Had a perfect little hole exposing the live wire. Anyone else find weird stuff like this hidden behind desks?

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taraj1123d ago

Wait, was the tack strip actually embedded in the cable or just laying on top of it?

smith.blair22d ago

Genuinely not sure, I was too busy trying to fish a six inch strip of carpet tack out of my rental's vacuum hose while pretending I knew what I was doing. My proudest moment was probably when I yanked on it and the whole vacuum shot backwards like a rocket. Taught me a valuable lesson about reading the room, or in this case, reading the floor before you clean it.