Posted on 12/10/2020 10:11:54 AM PST by nickcarraway
It would have had to if she died that way but the roommate said she felt a shock.
Wouldn’t the circuit breaker have blown by then?
I find this dubious. I don’t doubt the woman died, but did she die from being electrocuted?
iPhone charger something like 5 Watts (5 volts at 1000 mA).
That might give you a tingle, but it’s not going to kill you...
Unless it somehow wasn’t working properly.. or she tried to unplug the main and the connected to that. But assuming the charger was working dropping the phone on the tub still connected shouldn’t have anywhere near enough to kill.
I am wondering if she had a heart attack or aneurism while in tub with phone and as a result phone wound up in the water. Roommate touches water and gets a tingle and assumed electrocution.
Granted I wouldn’t try this at home, but really See no way if the charger was working properly it’s going to kill you on the output. If it could people would be shocking themselves all the time when they touched their charging cable and it being plugged into the wall but not yet plugged into the phone
The only likely way that could happen is if the transformer (the white charging block) was plugged into an extension cord, and the end of the extension cord also fell into the water.
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Yup. That, or she reached up, while in the tub, to plug the iPhone cable into the charging cube while it was plugged into the wall.
Immersed in a tub of water, you are most definitely seriously grounded and highly vulnerable to being killed by the voltage from a standard wall outlet (120 v at 15 amps).
Standing on a wood floor, or wearing rubber sole shoes makes you far less likely to be killed if you touch an electrical outlet. Your are ungrounded in this condition. Much like birds can land on ultra-high volt transmission lines without being killed as the electricity can’t travel to ground. Now if the bird tried to straddle two wires with alternating potentials at the same time, then *poof*. Instant fried chicken.
Its the current that gets ya
Old false rumor that Bob ‘Gilligan’ Denver dropped a radio in the tub and got electrocuted. He died some many decades after the supposed incident.
Same type of rumor had Abe Vigoda (Tessio, Fish) dead some decades before his actual demise. (Not tub related)
Yeah...good points.
Claude Francois (think that’s the name)
was electrocuted as he tried to deal with
a light fixture while taking a shower.
He had sung “Comme d’Habitude” which,
with English lyrics, became Frank
Sinatra’s “My Way”.
Your car battery is 12 volts. It will fry you quite effectively. On the other hand when you get a zap from touching a doorknob that's thousands of volts. Harmless.
Voltage is just a measure of potential energy between two points. Current is actual electrical charge moving around and that's what kills you if there's enough of it.
That said, I'd still find the charge coming out of a DC charging cable to be pretty unlikely to be sufficient to kill you.
When I was a kid and took a bath my parents gave me a toaster to play with.
Rodney Dangerfield
Russia uses 230 vac...to ground!!
No, I value my life.
Do you remember in the 90's, and Aeroflot place crashed after the pilot put one of his children at the controls?
Paul Anka wrote the English version, a young David Bowie also wrote his own version called "Even a Fool Learns to Love".
No ground fault cutoff?
More like Aeroflop.
- Rodney Dangerfield
Most likely. The low charge voltage is isolated from the 240V supply. The cord had to have fallen in the tub. Too bad she didn’t appreciate the dangers of electricity and bathtubs.
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She’s kinda hot. Is it too late to try mouth-to-mouth?
They don’t have GFI in Russia?....................
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