Fwiw – I appreciated the intent of this post. Yes, of course, the first details were on the thin side, but those few details reflect exactly what 480 initially saw when walking into this
murder mystery troubleshooting call. So the “game” is to start asking questions and see if your first inclinations about what to eyeball might have panned out and how close they came to his first efforts at troubleshooting this. Just a fun exercise and, in the end, always some good facts to put onto your “been there, saw that” list. Complaining about the game seems silly and grumpy to me, have fun and play along. Or simply pull up a chair on the sidelines and watch, and keep the heckling to a dull roar
Having said all that, it’s also pretty clear exactly what the problem was. Looking at the obvious facts (circuit breaker throwing sparks and 5 of 6 dead outlets), the young disaffected stare of the gum chewing receptionist with the black dress with pink and purple flowers, the nervous sweaty palms of Lord Gilbert and the dead body of Lady Penelope (with her still smoking Bride of Frankenstein hair) I think it’s obvious that, in a fit of jealousy, Lady Penelope confronted both the receptionist and the cad Lord Gilbert about their secret affair. In a moment of panic, Gilbert backstabbed Penelope with the second outlet in that circuit’s daisy chain – and murdered her dead! You all know how dangerous backstabbed outlets are, and that sparky smoking gun circuit breaker is all the proof Columbo would need to send Lord Gilbert to the “Big House”. What really broke the case is when Lord Gilbert replaced the (now miswired and shorted) second murder outlet weapon, he replaced it “upside down” in a panic, with the ground pin facing up
All the other outlets in the waiting room were ground pin down – naturally the only way to install such an outlet, because they make cute faces with 2 eyes and a mouth
Moral of this troubleshooting story – Lady Penelope would be alive today – and collecting fat alimony checks - if these were pigtailed outlets.
