> The cord is neon orange for a very good reason. In all my years of being 
> alive, I have almost never seen a petrol mower

Petrol lawn mowers, as well as not needing a cable, are usually much more 
powerful, so you can charge through quite long wet grass that likely would 
block up an electric one.

> I have also never seen anybody actually cut their power cord while mowing 
> either.

A friend of ours borrowed our electric hedge cutter, she cut through cord. 
Then she borrowed it again, and we joked to her about not cutting through it 
again.  Of course she cut through it *again*.  She can go and buy her own 
one now.

> When was the last time you ran your vacuum cleaner over the power cord?

Erm, the whole time actually, but the consequences aren't nearly as bad, 
plus it's a pain in the ass having to rearrange the cable and keep 
plug/unplugging it the whole time as you move around the house, getting it 
tangled around chairs/tables etc.

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