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Darwin award goes to Texas girl fried in bathtub by her cell phone

37,387 6,517 July 12, 2017 at 04:54 AM in Chat (3) USA TODAY
Unplug it STUPID!

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.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/ne...467225001/
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Fallacy
07-13-2017 at 12:23 PM.
07-13-2017 at 12:23 PM.
Quote from dayv :
i used to breadboard with an arduino. also Purdue degree but mainly arduino.



transformers are Hasbro and marvel not DC. (but seriously, digikey like every mentioned)
Last time I used a breadboard was probably 20 years ago, and last time I actually took circuit theory was probably 15 years ago.

I remember very little laugh out loud (o yeah, I have an engineering degree in EE, just not the shit discussed in the thread)
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Iaaaiws
07-13-2017 at 01:34 PM.
07-13-2017 at 01:34 PM.
Quote from Fallacy :
That's what I do 8 hours a day at my day job. Just google for answers.
Nice. At my job for 8 hours a day I drive around and listen to the radio and stop periodically to read my Kindle for a few minutes.
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The Llama
07-13-2017 at 09:04 PM.
07-13-2017 at 09:04 PM.
Quote from Fallacy :
I'm waiting for someone to say something controversial so I can stir up shit, so no, no popcorn now.
I'm pretty sure all that electricity stuff you posted was wrong. "Circuitry" was actually totally the correct answer.
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07-14-2017 at 07:37 AM.
07-14-2017 at 07:37 AM.
Quote from The Llama :
I'm pretty sure all that electricity stuff you posted was wrong. "Circuitry" was actually totally the correct answer.
fark....
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Fallacy
07-14-2017 at 07:39 AM.
07-14-2017 at 07:39 AM.
Quote from Iaaaiws :
Nice. At my job for 8 hours a day I drive around and listen to the radio and stop periodically to read my Kindle for a few minutes.
Look, we all know your job is a lot cooler. You don't just drive around, you drive around a big farking monster truck.
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LC2
07-14-2017 at 06:44 PM.
07-14-2017 at 06:44 PM.
Quote from Frogstar :
This isn't any kind of phone-specific education, this is your general "electricity while you're in the shower/tub is bad and could kill you" education.
Wait, so you're saying there's phone specific education available? Could I... say... earn a degree in as little as 7 weeks? Scratchchin
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07-14-2017 at 06:48 PM.
07-14-2017 at 06:48 PM.
Quote from Iaaaiws :
Nice. At my job for 8 hours a day I drive around and listen to the radio and stop periodically to read my Kindle for a few minutes.
I don't even have a job! It's so great we're all sharing like this. I feel so much closer to everyone now, don't you?
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mrlaugh
07-14-2017 at 09:38 PM.
07-14-2017 at 09:38 PM.
it could've been quick charge, which could be up to 20v, but still 2A or less.
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Frogstar
07-19-2017 at 07:31 AM.
07-19-2017 at 07:31 AM.
Quote from LC2 :
Wait, so you're saying there's phone specific education available? Could I... say... earn a degree in as little as 7 weeks? Scratchchin
Absolutely! And I guarantee the degree with be worth nearly as much as the paper upon which it is printed!
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07-19-2017 at 08:31 AM.
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Absolutely! And I guarantee the degree with be worth nearly as much as the paper upon which it is printed!
Good thing you use cheap paper.
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