Sounds to me like he dunked the extension cord into the bath and that was the problem.
If he had plugged the charger into the wall he would have been OK.
This is an unwarranted bad rap for Apple—they had nothing to do with the extension cord.
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Plus if he had been in the US an outlet in the bathroom would have had GFI protection, I don’t know about the code in the UK. The hallway outlet would not have required GFI protection...
A commentator on another site said he had a brother who was a contractor in the UK and they are not allowed to install outlets in bathrooms at all. I don't know about the veracity of that comment, but it might explain the extension cord to the outlet in the hallway. . .
If he had plugged the charger into the wall he would have been OK.
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You aren’t allowed to have an outlet in a “Water Closet” in England ... except for a single outlet up high above a shaving mirror presumably for an electric razor,, although I believe they were allowed before electric razors were invented.. they were counting on the height to keep water away even if you splashed in the sink.
I remember reading about a teenage girl in the states dying the same way over the last year or so... But I don’t remember there being a extension cord involved..
Plus if he had been in the US an outlet in the bathroom would have had GFI protection
Wrong answer.....
Depends on when the home was built.
Even though the voltage is DC you can easily bypass the safety features by immersing it in water.