Melty wire fun. Don't do this.
Take one plug and one paper clip. Open Plug. Screw wire between Neutral and Live terminals inside plug, not too tight.

Plug into wall socket. Turn on wall socket. Oooh! Pretty melty wire sparklies.

Again! Again! Except this time, do it up really tight since this must be better, right?

Wrong. Bang! Lights go out. Angry sounds of parent approaching from downstairs. Melted wire fused to carpet is not removable in the time it takes an adult to climb stairs.
( chthonic, Fri 10 Aug 2012, 10:57, 2 replies)

Did this with large electroytic capacitors from a random selection bag bought from the local old-fashioned electronics shop
They really make a bang.

And, yes, they eventually blow the fuse for the ring main. And it's a wire fuse, not a circuit breaker, so you can't just reset it and pretend nothing happened.

And definitely don't drop the fuse carrier after you've pulled it, so it breaks when it hits the floor. That's even harder to cover up.

Though, since it was my mate's house, he was the one who got in trouble for it.
( le brian, Fri 10 Aug 2012, 12:17, closed)

This reminds me of a QO answer way back.
In detention for being cheeky to the German teacher. She foolishly left me alone. She liked to make herself a cup of coffee during lessons and had a kettle on the bench at the side of the room. Not knowing how long she'd be I quickly set to work on her kettle.Opening the plug I separated a few wires from the live and neutral cores and twisted them together.All that remained to be done was to switch the socket off and the kettle on; my trap was prepared. I put the word around so the incoming class knew the score. Apparently everyone watched with baited breath as she wandered over and clicked the switch. The resulting bang,flash and black smoke were, I'm told, rather good.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Fri 10 Aug 2012, 14:56, closed)