I admit I used to do it, learned a hard lesson in the process.
Shorted one at a place I worked many years ago, not even knowing which panel fed the circuit. It killed the circuit, but didn't trip the breaker! After many wasted hours searching, traced it down to a bad splice behind the sheetrock. Not fun!
Shorting or overloading to trip the breaker will find the weakest link... Weather it be the breaker, or a high resistance connection somewhere along the way. Many (most) residential receptacles are wired the easy way, the wires stuck in the spring loaded holes in the back of the receptacles, then seriesed together back to the panel, some circuits even share neutrals. Though code allows this, it does have the potential to fail, especially after many years of use.
But what can really cause a problem is if a neutral fails. The receptacle will check dead across the legs, but in reality what you have is a live hot leg, and possibly a back-fed live neutral! Touch either one, along with any ground source, and get a real shocking surprise!
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