Il marito di donna fossero flatalmente fulminato mentre si usa il telefono in Bath richiede avvertimenti migliori sui dispositivi elettronici
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/husband-of-woman-fatally-electrocuted-while-using-phone-in-bath-calls-for-better-warnings-on-electronic-devices/a299785197.html
di SirMike_MT
49 commenti
This is a terrible incident, but this reads like satire.
My calendar say tomorrow is the 1st of October,
How was she charging the phone in the bathroom? Might that have been a clue.
While that’s obviously very sad this isn’t far off from the whole “don’t microwave your dog” story.
What next? I shouldn’t toast my bread in the shower in the morning to speed my routine up
It wasn’t the phone – it was the fact she was stupid enough to charge it while in the bath.
Using a CHARGING phone in the bath, not just a phone. The charging part is what is dangerous. How is everyone leaving this out of their headlines?
Tragic but even as an electrician I can’t understand how 5v at 500mA to 1A could kill. Can anyone explain
Who needs to be made aware that you shouldn’t use a plugged-in device in the bath. Seriously.
This reminds me of that case where the lady microwaved her cat and it died. She sued the manufacturer and won because it didn’t specifically warn not to microwave living beings or something.
Its her own fault like.
It’s always someone elses fault.
Darwin award for that person, TBH. It’s clearly her own stupidity that did this
It’s a sad state of affairs when people can’t even leave their phone away from them long enough to take a bath.
Sorry husband for your loss, in all honesty and empathy.
But getting every electronic company to put a warning on every product to prevent this 1-in-10?million event…no chance.
Your wife won the Darwin Award.
I don’t want to be disrespectful, but her ignorance is her own. Everyone who’s ever used electricity knows you keep it away from water.
The cord running from the charger should have 5V, maybe 9-12V with some fast charging products. You could chew it and it wouldn’t kill you.
If you’ve got an extension cord – ie something that’s extending the 230V socket – and you bring the bloody thing into the bath with you, then yeah you could be electrocuted. A warning on your electronic device will not protect you from that level of stupidity.
If you’ve got some kinda dodgy chinese charger with a short/defect that causes the USB cord to go live then yeah you could be electrocuted whether in a bath or not. But again, a warning label will not help you – if you are buying dodgy chinese stuff they can just leave the label off.
This is obviously a tragedy and I have a lot of sympathy for the women and her family but you would have to break a number of basic safety guidelines for this to happen.
1. In the first instance there is no power outlet in the bathroom so it would require an extension lead to be brought into the bathroom.
2. In the second instance both the phone and the charging cable that plugs into the phone are safe low voltage circuits. The high voltage is supposed to be isolated and contained inside the charger that plugs into the socket. Even if the phone with charging cable attached fell into the water it should not kill you.
3. In order for a high voltage to get to the bath then either
(a) the extension socket itself fell into the water or (b) the phone charger did not provide sufficient isolation between high voltage and low voltage that it is is required to do by law.
4. If (a) the socket itself must have been precariously balanced over the bath. If (b) then it must have been the shoddiest of cheap knock off phone chargers.
Listen lads I heard that you shouldnt play with fire or run with scissors either. Unsure if you can run with fire or play with scissors, but will see.
Also don’t use a toaster in the bath. Make toast before or after
Thought this was a WWN article
Yeah, I can’t summon any sympathy here
Look, comeheretomenow, sorry about this man’s troubles, etc., but this is a case of: plant turnip seeds -> get turnips.
We didn’t lose a PhD guys. I think we’ll be ok.
I know it’s pedantry, but being fatally electrocuted is the only way to be electrocuted. Anything else is just an electric shock.
We should slap massive stickers on cars too, all over the door and the bonnet, those things are dangerous
Also note by putting your hand in a fire you will get burned.
The regulations are there but common sense is lost on the majority of the population.
I’ll preface this by saying it’s over 20yrs since I did an electronics course, and I haven’t worked in that field since but even though we dealt in low voltages only never over 12V, during a safety module we were taught it’s the current and what path it takes through the body that kills, with a figure of 50mA mentioned.
Obviously touching 10,000V is going to be spectacular and instant death, but as in this case in the right set of circumstances low voltage but high enough amps can kill. Add in the water (probably with bath bombs/salts) and then the lady touching a more than likely grounded metal handle the current, if the path the current took was over her heart it’s rhythm can be affected leading to heart attack etc. This is all obviously armchair stuff but I outside of the 240V socket falling in (which the article says did not) it’s the only thing that makes sense.
I know of someone who got zapped with 1500V traction current when a train in for maintenance wasn’t isolated properly. Because the current travelled from his hand to his elbow which was touching the grounded subframe he survived with just burns and no other effects
Getting into the bath with a plugged in electrical item is a cliche killing yourself joke. If you don’t know it by now, no additional warning label is helping.
You can’t police stupidity. All the warnings in the world and she still would have been stupid enough to do something like this.
Would a warning have changed anything? We don’t have plugs in the bathroom, and while you’re going to the hassle of extending a cord that far in, don’t you have to figure there was a reason it wasn’t easy for you to do in the first place?
Everybody wants someone to blame in the case of a tragic death, but it’s hard to admit that someone’s negligence caused their own death.
I’m as screen addicted as the rest of us, but don’t be so addicted that you can’t be without your phone even in situations where it’d be risky to have it
Personal responsibility is hard to find these days. Death by misadventure
Putting a 3 metre extension cable from the bedroom to the bath. I mean c’mon. That’s not Apple’s fault.
Did she read the big booklet she got with her iPhone for an hour and when finally finished she said to herself it didn’t say you shouldn’t plug your phone into an extension cable and use it near a bath so I’ll go ahead and do just that?
Doubt it. So what difference would the warning have made. Or maybe he meant it should be in big red writing on the box when you buy it.
While tragic, that’s a Darwin award if ever I’ve heard of one.
With all due respect but “who was electrocuted while holding a charging mobile phone in a bath” I think ommiting this from the headline is very poor journalism.
It could very well have been:
# Husband of woman fatally electrocuted while while holding a charging mobile phone in a bath, calls for better warnings on dangers of doing so with electronic devices
No amount of warnings slapped on everything will help some people, if anything I would imagine they would ignore any and all warnings plastered on
I am terribly sorry for the family, but you can’t protect people from everything.
I think the general notion that combining electricity and water is fairly well understood to be a risk.
There comes a point where you have to chalk it up to ‘natural selection’.
Always funny to see people who can’t be arsed to read the article calling others stupid and lazy etc. And being cunts as well.
No more bath toast for this cowboy.
r/DarwinAwards
This is why there are warnings to not dry pets in microwaves!!!
This is natural selection at work. The gene pools collective IQ went up a point here.
Just got into a bath, first thing that pops up on my feed. Nearly hoofed the phone across the room.
Well, she won herself a Darwin award
Is common sense not enough?
While that’s obviously a tragedy,its mental to think a adult could be that fucking stupid.
This is a terrible tragedy, but I dont think its apple’s job to tell people not to run extension cords into their bathroom
The rest of us don’t need better warnings thanks.