Um, wow. Thats a hazardous connection i'd not readily notice looking about a place like that. It'd be the heavy, falling stuff i'd be examining with my Inspector Clouseau magnifying glass.
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I can see why they didn't think to have measures specifically against something like this given it's a pretty low probability occurrence. You'd have to be unlucky enough to have both applied hand sanitiser just before touching the globe and then get a spark off the globe to ignite it, and I don't recall ever getting a spark off plasma globes when I've touched them before.
It'll be interesting to see if this getting into the news means companies/departments will scramble to get rid of alcohol based hand sanitiser in their buildings, ignition is after all technically possible with static shocks etc so there will be people worried about liability.
There you go; hadn't even considered the wider implications of this, such as fears around simply static electricity.
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Not everything requires a criminal charge. This is a ridiculous attitude that has pervaded our society. This is an obvious accident that couldn't have been predicted.
/r/murica
Read the article? 'Straya!
It was sarcasm as although Australian, it reads like an American situation.
Fairo - I missed the sarcasm , my bad