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Romanian Teens Dies Twitting In Tub
All Headline News ^ | June 22, 2009 | Shannon McGregor

Posted on 06/22/2009 5:39:16 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

Brasov, Romania (AHN) - Electricy and water don't mix!

A Romanian teen died of electrocution while Twittering in her bathtub, after she dropped her laptop in the water.

Found by her parents with her laptop lying next to her, Maria Barbu, 17, of Brasov in central Romania, died in her bathtub at home, the Croatian Times reported.

Police believe she may have tried to plug in the laptop with her wet hands after her battery died during a long Twitter session.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: darwinaward; twitter; zot
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Tragic! By 17, I would have guessed that they would know that water and electricity are a deadly combo.

Doesn’t anyone want to take a break from Twittering their My Linked-In Space FaceBook???


21 posted on 06/22/2009 5:57:18 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
PARENTING FAIL!

You can't childproof the world, but you can world-proof your child.

And obviously, you can't waterproof a laptop brick....

/johnny

22 posted on 06/22/2009 5:58:35 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

How do we know she was on Twitter and not DU?


23 posted on 06/22/2009 6:01:32 PM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Hi, I'm sittN n d bathtub takN a bath bt i'm nt letN dat kip me frm keepn my twitter F? frm noing evry Dtail of my lyf. poo, i jst dropD my hairbrush n d H2O, B r B...
24 posted on 06/22/2009 6:07:17 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: big'ol_freeper

This was a young girl.

I don’t think you’d be posting such shallow comments if this young person was blood of your blood and bone of your bone.

Moderator, such posts, in my opinion, disparage the credibility and moral compass of FR.


25 posted on 06/22/2009 6:14:21 PM PDT by Hilltop (Control the high ground. Control the battlefield.)
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To: Hilltop

Give me a break. Go take a Xanex.


26 posted on 06/22/2009 6:15:44 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ([Advocate for] Mitt Romney[?], God help you, but you're on the wrong website ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I’m just glad she had not reproduced another idiot yet.


27 posted on 06/22/2009 6:17:26 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ([Advocate for] Mitt Romney[?], God help you, but you're on the wrong website ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I have been through Brasov, a nice mountain city.

Romanian teens make up an unusually high volume of internet users, and I have had chats with many.
I have only recently gotten rid of a sizable group that
kept calling me on Yahoo Messenger.
In this case, they did not speak English, and I do not know Romanian.

I gather this girl reached to plug in the wall cube (220 v).

Because most all electronic devices now run on very low voltage, young people have lost respect for high and dangerous AC voltage of the wall sockets.
Sad for the girl and her family.


28 posted on 06/22/2009 6:17:50 PM PDT by AlexW (Now in the Philippines . Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: Hilltop
disparage the credibility and moral compass of FR.

We've always been tarred with the same broad brush by liberals no matter how sensitive or caring we truly are.

So, What the Hell! May as well be hanged for goats as sheep.

Don't know if you watched the young lady in Iran die, who happened to be trying to be free, but the gloves are pretty much off with folks that want "my type" to "not rock the boat"

/johnny

29 posted on 06/22/2009 6:19:43 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Doctor Darwin read about this on Twitter


30 posted on 06/22/2009 6:19:55 PM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; Slings and Arrows; Constitution Day

31 posted on 06/22/2009 6:28:41 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: max americana

What . . . being electrocuted?


32 posted on 06/22/2009 6:36:07 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Sarah Palin is our next President - start supporting her NOW!)
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To: martin_fierro

Martin you’re alive! I had heard that you died.


33 posted on 06/22/2009 6:36:56 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: cyborg

Welcome to the dark side.


34 posted on 06/22/2009 6:38:53 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: big'ol_freeper

Your lack of ability to properly spell Xanax speaks further volumes of your shallow thought process.


35 posted on 06/22/2009 6:40:32 PM PDT by Hilltop (Control the high ground. Control the battlefield.)
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To: Hildy
I have to say that after all the years of following technology, trying to be on the cutting edge of all new technologies and crazes...I just REFUSE TO DO THIS TWITTER THING. It just seems so self-serving. I don’t understand the need to put every little thought you have out there...it drives me crazy on FACEBOOK..I think it’s kind of sad.

I'm with you. I barely have enough time to spend on FR. Why add to the computer addiction?

36 posted on 06/22/2009 6:43:24 PM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: Hilltop

I’ve never needed a prescription for it, hence no real knowledge of its spelling. Evidently you are an expert on its spelling for some reason. Based on your anal retentive emotionalism I am guessing its because you border on addiction to the drug.


37 posted on 06/22/2009 6:44:21 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ([Advocate for] Mitt Romney[?], God help you, but you're on the wrong website ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: Hildy

Me too.


38 posted on 06/22/2009 6:46:57 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Hilltop

...and may I inquire as to how much you charge to haunt a house?


39 posted on 06/22/2009 6:48:17 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ([Advocate for] Mitt Romney[?], God help you, but you're on the wrong website ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: Hilltop
From another thread: Hillslop: "Your intent is not lost, and I’m not the spelling aparatchik."

Ah but evidently you are.

40 posted on 06/22/2009 6:54:20 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ([Advocate for] Mitt Romney[?], God help you, but you're on the wrong website ~ Jim Robinson)
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