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Girl Electrocuted and Dies Tweeting In the Tub

Posted by samzenpus on from the soap-and-tweets-don't-mix dept.

Jeff Shantz writes "A 17-year-old Romanian girl is dead after being electrocuted while tweeting in the bath tub. Apparently, she plugged in her laptop after her battery started to die, and it is unclear as to whether or not she dropped the laptop in the water, or simply dripped enough water on the device to cause the shock. Needless to say, it is probably good advice not to tweet in the tub."

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  1. Re:It's not the laptop by DanJ_UK · · Score: 2, Informative

    Volts don't kill you, amps do.

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    - Dan
  2. Re:It's not the laptop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yeah! You are correct. Same thing that speed doesnt kill you while falling, but the sudden stop. The higher the voltage, the higher the amps. U/R=I. Human tissue is like VDR resistor. When the voltage goes up the resistance goes down, hence the sudden increse in amps. So volts are the cause for death, but amps do the killing.