rivers_bend

I just went to turn on the light at the top of the stairs and the bulb blew. Now, usually when this happens, it blows the circut and sometimes it makes a small popping sound. This time there was a series of clanks and the whole of the glass portion of the lightbulb landed at my feet. I was completely mystified. What made the metal collar pop off? Why is none of the bulb broken, seeing as it bounced down a flight of stairs and landed on the kitchen floor? And most importantly, how the HELL am I going to get the metal cuff out of the fitting? It's a bayonet bulb, and the fitting is quite fiddly and difficult to get bulbs in and out of anyway. I'm not interested in ringing an electrician just to get a damn bulb fixing out, but I'm not interested in sticking a pair of pliers in an electrical fitting either. Even if I turn it off at the breaker. Not in a country with 220V electricity anyway.

WTF?