Posted on 04/03/2017 10:14:46 AM PDT by Jyotishi
HUNTSVILLE, AL. – An Alabama man was nearly electrocuted after falling asleep with his iPhone and charging cord in bed, WAAY-TV reports.
Last week Wiley Day, 32, fell asleep with his dog tag around his neck. His iPhone was connected to its charger and an extension cord near his head. While he was sleeping, the chain to his dog tag slipped between the charger and the extension cord.
The contact sent a surge of electricity through his body.
“And my necklace became the conductor. And it somehow, some way, jolted me over here to the floor,” Day told WAAY-TV.
Thankfully, Day was able to break the chain from his neck, and he’s lucky to be alive.
Wiley was hit with about 110 volts, and 100 volts can kill a person, according to Dr. Benjamin Fail, a family practice physician. “He is lucky to be alive,” Fail said.
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‘Moron nearly gets a Darwin award for sleeping in a bed with an extension cord’ is a more accurate title.
volts do not kill you, amps kill you. Anyone with a high school education should know that.
And a metal chain around his neck.
Phone needed a charge but he was waiting for an important call while sleeping?
And the two are related by Ohms Law as that same educational level should teach. The issue here was contact between the necklace and the exposed hot side of the AC line, that it was a phone charger that was plugged-in is irrelevant.
It seemed they wanted to blame the charger. Also remember a stun gun can deliver 500,000 to 1 million volts, but since you are using a 9 volt battery the current is almost zero.
Warning to all of us, not to sleep with a phone charging.....
I’ve plugged in a phone to charge and went to sleep. But didn’t have the phone and cord in bed.
volts do not kill you, amps kill you. Anyone with a high school education should know that.
Exactly. I’m been shocked by 120 and 240v more times than I can remember and it was never more than fleeting unpleasant experience.
Not the phone or the charger. It’s connection to the extension cord ..... in his bed that is the problem.
BTW some years back I installed double outlets behind the night stands on both sides of my bed. Then a year or so ago I replaced on outlet on the wife’s side with a normal outlet except it also contained 2 USB charging outputs.
Me? I charge my iPhone in a different room with the ringer off. Don’t want to be bothered at night.
True.
” Anyone with a high school education should know that.”
That excuses most ‘journalists’.................
Next time be nice to Siri.
This points out that some people are so addicted to their phones that they have them in bed with them. Its an addiction to look at it when you go to bed and then immediately look at it when you get up.
It’s an epedimic. This one was just a couple of weeks ago:
Coroner to warn Apple over potentially lethal iPhone chargers after man electrocuted himself while charging his phone in the bath
32-year-old Richard Bull plugged his iPhone charger into an extension cord
He rested the phone on his chest while in the bath and electrocuted himself
Wife thought he was attacked after he suffered burns on his chest, arm and hand
Coroner warned the devices can be as dangerous as a hairdryer in a bathroom
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4322932/Man-32-dies-charging-iPhone-bath.html
Moments before disaster he was heard panting “ohh siri ohhh siri”
Perhaps it's best not to invite self-fulfillment...
>>>"Dog tags" is an informal term for the identification tags worn by military personnel because of their resemblance to animal registration tags. The tags are primarily used for the identification of dead...<<< (Wikipedia)
“I’m been shocked by 120 and 240v more times than I can remember ...”
I have been shocked by 120 many times as well, no issues to date.
I got shocked by 240 once - I was 25’ away in a nanosecond, slammed against a wall. If the wall was not there I would have moved at least 75’
Had a HELLOFABURN shorting a 12 volt auto battery - 100% my fault.
Had a lot of 300,000 volt shocks that did nothing.
Amps are killer!
Correct!
Then, there is this (warning: graphic pics):
photos: girl was electrocuted to death by a power-bank charger.
Not sure how that is possible, but Darwinish for sure.
1/10th of an Amp will kill...
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