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

37,383 6,517 July 12, 2017 at 04:54 AM 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
07-12-2017 at 06:11 AM.
07-12-2017 at 06:11 AM.
Well shit, lots of new phones are waterproof, how was she supposed to know the charging cord isn't water proof? Confused
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SnakePlisken
07-12-2017 at 06:11 AM.
07-12-2017 at 06:11 AM.
Quote from Fallacy :
Well shit, lots of new phones are waterproof, how was she supposed to know the charging cord isn't water proof? Confused
common sense?
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shhaggy
07-12-2017 at 06:21 AM.
07-12-2017 at 06:21 AM.
Why is there a non-GFI outlet anywhere near the bathtub?
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Fallacy
07-12-2017 at 06:39 AM.
07-12-2017 at 06:39 AM.
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common sense?
Texas.
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Fallacy
07-12-2017 at 06:39 AM.
07-12-2017 at 06:39 AM.
Quote from shhaggy :
Why is there a non-GFI outlet anywhere near the bathtub?
Texas.
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07-12-2017 at 06:41 AM.
07-12-2017 at 06:41 AM.
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Texas.
Yep, always on the cutting edge when it come to trailer park technology
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shhaggy
07-12-2017 at 06:45 AM.
07-12-2017 at 06:45 AM.
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Texas.
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Texas.
Happened in New Mexico.
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Fallacy
07-12-2017 at 06:54 AM.
07-12-2017 at 06:54 AM.
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Happened in New Mexico.
fark, reading comprehension fail on my part. Though it doesn't change the point much.
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07-12-2017 at 07:01 AM.
07-12-2017 at 07:01 AM.
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Happened in New Mexico.
Facepalm didn't know electricity was available there yet, much less cell phones?
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07-12-2017 at 07:04 AM.
07-12-2017 at 07:04 AM.
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fark, reading comprehension fail on my part. Though it doesn't change the point much.
Texas? Peace
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Bright_Eyes
07-12-2017 at 07:12 AM.
07-12-2017 at 07:12 AM.
This was a 14 year old girl and this should wake up parents who give their kids phones to educate the kids on how to safely use them.
Has this country become this mean? Or do we just see it more with the internet?
Could you imagine being a parent or sibling and having someone they love pass then to be shown something like this thread,
Sorry- I am the first to love a great thread but something here just bothers me, topic is good but be kind to the 14 year old and her family.
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shhaggy
07-12-2017 at 07:31 AM.
07-12-2017 at 07:31 AM.
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fark, reading comprehension fail on my part. Though it doesn't change the point much.
Are you from Texas?
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07-12-2017 at 07:45 AM.
07-12-2017 at 07:45 AM.
Quote from Bright_Eyes :
This was a 14 year old girl and this should wake up parents who give their kids phones to educate the kids on how to safely use them.
Has this country become this mean? Or do we just see it more with the internet?
Could you imagine being a parent or sibling and having someone they love pass then to be shown something like this thread,
Sorry- I am the first to love a great thread but something here just bothers me, topic is good but be kind to the 14 year old and her family.
Look up Internet s**tcock theory, should explaing why people are such dirtbags online. I posted a picture but got removed for cuss wordds. laugh out loud

I am guilty of it at times. Only thing we can do is call out it out when you see it and you've done that. Smilie
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07-12-2017 at 07:57 AM.
07-12-2017 at 07:57 AM.
Quote from Bright_Eyes :
This was a 14 year old girl and this should wake up parents who give their kids phones to educate the kids on how to safely use them.
Has this country become this mean? Or do we just see it more with the internet?
Could you imagine being a parent or sibling and having someone they love pass then to be shown something like this thread,
Sorry- I am the first to love a great thread but something here just bothers me, topic is good but be kind to the 14 year old and her family.
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.
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