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    Girl Dies by Electrocution While Twitting in Bathtub, Apocalypse Draws Nearer
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    Image of bikehorn86 bikehorn86
    10/08/09

    In reply to Girl Dies by Electrocution While Twitting in Bathtub, Apocalypse Draws Nearer
    Maybe you have a chip on your shoulder about Twitter users(personally I hate Twitter) but as an electrician I can't help pointing out weak electrical safety. If they had ground fault circuit interrupters as mandatory equipment in Romania, she would have survived and maybe not even felt much of a shock before the power was cut. Granted, handling live electrical equipment while immersed in water is Darwin award material, but her death could have been prevented if the exact same incident had occurred where GFCIs are mandatory such as Canada where we have some of the toughest electrical safety rules. In the UK these are called RCDs or residual current devices. Basically they work by detecting if power is going somewhere it shouldn't....normally it goes out of the black(active/hot) wire and back through the white(neutral). If 99 electrons go out but only 93 come back, that means six leaked somewhere and maybe did so through a person into the ground - while shocking them. If it senses this condition the power will immediately be cut before a fatality can occur.

    I've heard of a lot of deaths like this occurring in India not due to people twittering in the tub but due to people using immersion water heaters to warm up water before bathing. These are extremely unsafe ungrounded devices and even if they have got the ground pin many people just break the ground pin off to make it fit an old outlet or worse, the ground/bond connection is broken somewhere in the wall. Now imagine you've got a live electrode in the water with no safety ground and no GFCI protection, and you stick your hand in to check the temperature while standing on a wet floor...Zapppppp, you'll never know if it was hot enough because you'll be dead.
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    06/19/09

    In reply to Girl Dies by Electrocution While Twitting in Bathtub, Apocalypse Draws Nearer
    I wonder what she said on her twitter?
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    Image of .357 .357
    06/19/09

    @mynamesafad:

    Plugging in the laptop

    AHHHHHHHHHH

    ....
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    Image of KeNNeYg KeNNeYg
    06/19/09

    In reply to Girl Dies by Electrocution While Twitting in Bathtub, Apocalypse Draws Nearer
    Reminds me of that guy James Bond Killed by throwing a toaster at him while he was taking a bath.
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    06/19/09

    @KeNNeYg: "Shocking"
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    06/19/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Wow, and I thought I was the only one who watched James Bond from the 60's.
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    06/20/09

    @Zander: No, those are the good ones, back when the franchise didn't take itself too seriously.


    These last few might as well just be generic action movies.

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    07/10/09

    @something_unique_and_descripti...: Yeah, but Pierce Brosnan did a fairly good job of it too.
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    06/19/09

    In reply to Girl Dies by Electrocution While Twitting in Bathtub, Apocalypse Draws Nearer
    I guess we could say she was Barbu'cued....
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    06/19/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Ok, that's not funny. Poor kid.
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    06/19/09

    In reply to Girl Dies by Electrocution While Twitting in Bathtub, Apocalypse Draws Nearer
    Truly shocking.
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    06/19/09

    @admoseremic: Brings new meaning to "current" events.
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    06/19/09

    @onewiththewurlitzer: I'm trying to resist using more puns.
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    Image of sqeakytoy of the apocalypse sqeakytoy of the apocalypse
    06/19/09

    @admoseremic: no, your trying to amp up the drama. Watts the point?
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    06/19/09

    @sqeakytoy of the apocalypse: Joules have to be kidding me
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    06/19/09

    In reply to Girl Dies by Electrocution While Twitting in Bathtub, Apocalypse Draws Nearer
    And that's why electrical code states that all outlets in a bathroom or kitchen must be GFCI protected.
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    06/19/09

    @philibuster: Don't they use 240 over there?
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