Reply by TheDane

This comes up every so often … I’m not sure there is a great fire danger, but if you are using any electronic devices (computer, radio, TV, MP3 player, etc.) that little static shock that you get when a system is not grounded can be deadly.

Electro-Static Discharge (ESD) is bad mojo for just about any electronic device that uses integrated circuitry (which is just about all of them).

-- Gerry -- "I don't plan to ever really grow up ... I'm just going to learn how to act in public!"