My child (3) tripped on the night light we have in the hallway and it absolutely and catastrophically destroyed the outlet. I wasn't so keen on having energized metal contacts exposed with my kid running around so I shut off the power to the whole house, pulled it out, taped off the hot and neutral wires, and put a blank plate on it for now until I can go to the hardware store and get a new outlet.

It really is an impressive failure. The night light only had a slight bent prong. I'm guessing this outlet is about as old as I am and just gave up.