標題: Girl dies Tweeting in the tub [打印本頁] 作者: wow 時間: 2009-6-23 19:24 標題: Girl dies Tweeting in the tub
Girl dies Tweeting in the tub
By Christopher Null
People, people, people. Web 2.0 can do a lot of things, but it doesn't change the laws of physics, particularly in regards to the transmission of electricity.
To wit: A teenage girl was discovered dead this weekend, electrocuted after dropping her laptop in the bathtub.
Why did she need a computer in the tub? So she could update Twitter. About what she was tweeting remains unclear, but it was hopefully something more meaningful than the soap she was using.
Maria Barbu, 17, of Brasov, Romania, is said to have been plugging her laptop into wall current at the time, after "the battery died during a long session on social networking site Twitter as she took a soak."
Additional details are lacking, and are unlikely to be forthcoming anytime soon. And it's unclear whether the laptop slipped from her hands or if she was so wet that the water dripping off of her closed the circuit and caused the shock.
Either way, any technology user should know by now that computers and bathrooms simply don't mix. (If you aren't worried about electrocution, think of the germs, won't you?) While GFCI circuits were designed to prevent tragedies such as the all-too-common hair-dryer-in-the-tub accident, they aren't perfect, and they aren't universal, especially overseas.
And seriously, can't Twitter wait until you get out of the bathtub?作者: siuyudim 時間: 2009-6-23 19:48
RIP. if it's true...what a tragedy...the girl is only 17..
that's a little too much, too extreme...bring a laptop to the bath? ahh.. i bring my phone to the shower....but i usually don't answer it or check sms with the water running. >_<作者: meowmeowmeow 時間: 2009-6-23 21:06
oh no...作者: 開心人 時間: 2009-6-23 21:42
well.. who's fault is that.. most people would have the common sense of not brining electronics into the bathroom.作者: zoids 時間: 2009-6-23 21:51
Just Darwin's law working again.... life goes on with the rest of us.作者: 阿邊個邊個 時間: 2009-6-23 22:17
you mean nature chooses the best genes to survive and the weak genes die off early作者: benyaoguai 時間: 2009-6-23 22:38
may i just say...
what a f-ing idiot...
if it's true~ all i can say is~ this is simply natural selection XD作者: B仔 時間: 2009-6-23 23:32
