Electrocuted by LOW Voltage?? that charger put out 12 volts, something is missing from the story
That’s it, I’m sticking with Android.
“Why didn’t it electrocute the woman who reached in to get it?”
Because the circuit was blown.
Unlikely that a 5VDC charging current is going to electrocute someone. Something else occurred here.
They don’t mention that there was an extension cord involved. Always is.
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.
In Russia Phone Charges You.
My guess is she had an extension cord near the tub (not a good idea) into which she plugged the charger. So she accidentally pulled the extension cord - and 110VAC - into the water.
No GFCI outlets in Russia I guess.
If she died in the USA this would somehow be related to COVID to increase the fatality rate!
Could it be trouble with the outlet?
“Why didn’t it electrocute the woman who reached in to get it?”
Article says it did:
“When I touched her, I got an electric shock.”
But she was not in the bathtub, submerged in water and unable to escape, so when she got a shock she would naturally pull her hand away and break the circuit.
I don’t think so...
Someone should check if this guy recently took out a life insurance policy on her.
I don’t know how this could be more clear. Obviously, a COVID death.
There is probably insurance involved and the phone wasn’t the only device that visited the water. Should be out on Dateline in a couple years.
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
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)
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”.