[dkarl]

You're right, but given that some people subject their breaker boxes to amateur fiddling, leaving loose or missing covers and poorly done wiring, I sympathize with his point. I wouldn't send a kid to flip a breaker unless it was my own house and I knew the breaker box was safe. I realize that in theory a light switch can be unsafe just like a breaker box, but in practice, I would never worry about sending a kid to flip a light switch.

[quesera]

Fair enough. I would never live in a house that had sketchy service panels, and in an unknown/presumed-dangerous environment, I'd never send an inexperienced person to mess with service panels (or lightswitches) I hadn't inspected myself.