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Darwin award goes to Texas girl fried in bathtub by her cell phone
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A 14-year-old girl from Lubbock, Texas, died Sunday after being electrocuted in a bathtub while using her cell phone, according to local reports.
Madison Coe was electrocuted after she either grabbed her phone that was plugged in or plugged in her phone, her grandmother Donna O'Guinn told KCBD-TV. The teen was visiting her father in New Mexico when the incident occurred.
"There was a burn mark on her hand, the hand that would have grabbed the phone. And that was just very obvious that that's what had happened," O'Guinn told the news station.
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A 14-year-old girl from Lubbock, Texas, died Sunday after being electrocuted in a bathtub while using her cell phone, according to local reports.
Madison Coe was electrocuted after she either grabbed her phone that was plugged in or plugged in her phone, her grandmother Donna O'Guinn told KCBD-TV. The teen was visiting her father in New Mexico when the incident occurred.
"There was a burn mark on her hand, the hand that would have grabbed the phone. And that was just very obvious that that's what had happened," O'Guinn told the news station.
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I mean, the extension cord should have flipped a switch (no pun intended) but I could see just charging it not seeming like a big deal in the moment.
I mean, the extension cord should have flipped a switch (no pun intended) but I could see just charging it not seeming like a big deal in the moment.
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Journalism these days... SMH
If only someone had mentioned that upthread
The typical wall outlet is 1 phase so it's 120V, not 240V. 110V/220V wasn't used since the 1920s, and people still remember those numbers for some reason. It was stepped up multiple times, and since the 80s the "standard" has been ~120V.
Unless she's charging a stove, a welder, an AC or an electric car in her bath tub, she's not using 2-phase power of "220V" (technically 240V).
And now to address your point, she had an extension cord. You don't know which part of the extension cord fell into the water (the tip where the phone is and has 5VDC, or the part where the transformed is inside the phone charger that connects to 120V AC). The real question should be why didn't the GFCI stop it, and the answer could be some older houses weren't built with GFCI's (the code only started requiring them past the 1970s).
The typical wall outlet is 1 phase so it's 120V, not 240V. 110V/220V wasn't used since the 1920s, and people still remember those numbers for some reason. It was stepped up multiple times, and since the 80s the "standard" has been ~120V.
Unless she's charging a stove, a welder, an AC or an electric car in her bath tub, she's not using 2-phase power of "220V" (technically 240V).
And now to address your point, she had an extension cord. You don't know which part of the extension cord fell into the water (the tip where the phone is and has 5VDC, or the part where the transformed is inside the phone charger that connects to 120V AC). The real question should be why didn't the GFCI stop it, and the answer could be some older houses weren't built with GFCI's (1970s + )
It's the amps that kills and how much amps drawn is limited by the volts.
There's really very little information here other than that she has burn mark on her arm.
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It's the amps that kills and how much amps drawn is limited by the volts.
There's really very little information here other than that she has burn mark on her arm.