Ductape wrote:
OK, I will bite.
IF the ground was open, as reported- then how was the allegedly reversed "polarity" determined?
Think about it.
Ground is "open" in that it's not bonded to supposed neutral; that is, 120V is not detected between the supposed hot and the ground line.
Reverse polarity would imply that ground is bonded to the supposed hot terminal. Most likely it's merely a reversed hot and neutral at the socket, with ground bonded to the (actual) neutral line that is connected to the (putative) hot terminal.
