I've been removing the fitted furniture in our bedroom. The room has always been a bit short of sockets, so imagine my surprise when in the wall behind the wardrobe was a pattress box, containing the ends of some mains cable, wrapped in insulation tape. I didn't have a spare socket, so I cursed a little, put a blanking plate over it and carried on.
It was only today when I was fitting the new socket I'd bought that it suddenly occurred to me that two of the sections of the ring were joined by insulation tape holding the conductors together, and had been for 15 years or so...
Andy