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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? (I
by telent 14y ago
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 14y agoThis is the illustration I see (I think it might be European): http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64639000/jpg/_64639977_140466308.jpg 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/161/0/81270203_XS.jpg http://img.ehowcdn.com/article-new/ds-photo/getty/article/16...
- jcurbo 14y agoThose are identical to the outlets I saw in Germany, so I guess they're European. Definitely not American though.
- Udo 14y agoYep, they're German.