[telent]

So why is an article about the Metropolitan Police forensic lab in south London (UK) illustrated with a stock photo of what appears to be a US power socket? (It might be a Euro socket, but it's certainly not a UK one.) Do they not have electricity sockets anywhere at the BBC that they could have taken a picture of?

[dreish]

This is the illustration I see (I think it might be European):

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64639000/jpg/_64639977...

This is what very nearly every power outlet in the U.S. looks like, down to the color, vertical configuration, and flat-head screw in the center:

http://img.ehowcdn.com/article-new/ds-photo/getty/article/16...

[jcurbo]

Those are identical to the outlets I saw in Germany, so I guess they're European. Definitely not American though.

[Udo]

Yep, they're German.