Posted on 03/20/2017 11:59:13 AM PDT by Swordmaker
A coroner is to warn Apple that iPhone chargers can be potentially lethal after a man was electrocuted in the bath.
Richard Bull from Ealing in west London was pronounced dead by paramedics in his home on December 11.
The 32-year-old was found by his wife Tanya, who thought her husband had been attacked because his burns were so severe.
At an inquest into his death the coroner issued a warning about using the 'innocuous devices' which can be 'as dangerous as a hairdryer in a bathroom.' Recording a verdict of accidental death, Dr Sean Cummings said: 'These seem like innocuous devices but can be as dangerous as a hairdryer in a bathroom. 'They should attach warnings. I intend to write a report later to the makers of the phone.'
Mr Bull was getting ready to go out meet family members to exchange Christmas presents when the tragedy happened.
His mother Carole said: 'I have worried that so many people and especially teenagers, that can't be separated from their phones, don't know how dangerous it is.'
PC Craig Pattison told the inquest at West London Coroner's Court how he found the extension lead running from the hallway outside into the bathroom.' 'We found an iPhone plugged into the extension cable and then the charger element in the bath,' he explained
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No, he had the "charger element" on his chest. . . not the iPhone. Per the coroner:
"We found an iPhone plugged into the extension cable and then the charger element in the bath," he explained, “The extension cable was on the floor and it appeared as though he had his phone charger on his chest and the part between the phone charger and the cable had made contact with the water.”
As you can see, no cord.
Sad to think of him finding her like that (though glad the kids didn’t).
My Grandmother used to say, “Oh, Honey, the brevity of life and the certainty of the Judgment!” I was clueless then but as I get older I realize the truth of that more and more.
“Old joke: Why do the Brits drink warm beer? Because Lucas makes their refrigerators......”
Many are unaware that Lucas made vacuum cleaners as well. It was the only product they made that didn’t suck.
Either way ... electricity and water don’t mix. I still don’t understand why the coroner is seemingly blaming Apple and not user error.
ROTFLMAO!
ROTFLMAO!
I see a cord. It's at the bottom of the picture. The "Lightning Cable" (and never was a monicker truer, I suppose). Unless a 'cable' is not a 'cord' - ludicrous.
Obviously, there is no way an iPhone can be connected directly to the charger shown in the top two images. That has a female port. As does the phone. (Only in San Francisco are the two be matched to each other in a working relationship ;-).) The cable is needed as the go-between.
That said, I now find the coroner's statement self-contradictory. If the charger was found on his chest, so must have been the extension cable (contrary to the coroner's quoted statement), because the charger directly plugs into the latter, as it always does for all such devices. Arghh!
I guess the guy was just really, really, *unbelievably* stupid. Because the 5V/1A DC output of the charger itself (at the phone-end-plug of the cord/cable) would've hardly killed him, had the extension cord been left outside the bath.
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