While it may not be happening here in New Hampshire, it is pretty common in Boston for people to break off the ground prong on power tools because the outlet has no ground hole and they have no adapter, so snap, off with the prong. If someone, never ever myself, wanted to return a drill or something with the prong broke off, back to Lowe's after using it for two months, they'd be out of luck. The broken prong is usually a 'heck, this plug don't be fitting the outlet I'll just bust it off' or 'heck, I ain't got no adapter' type of dumb move. Capice!
By the way, three prong adapters are not legal in Canada. Supposedly, Canadian Customs will confiscate these 79 cent grounding adapters.
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