I remember as a kid, aged about about seven, we were playing 'Cowboys and Indians' over at a friends house, who's bedroom was in the process of being decorated.
He said he would show us his partly decorated room but told us that under no circumstances were we to switch on the light. He said that it didn't have a bulb in it and if we did switch it on the electricity would escape and make us all incurably ill.
He said that the army would come in a tank and take us out into the desert where we would be tied to a stake and left for the Indians to torture us to death.
Obviously in the days before the lethal injection was an option.....
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