they aren't brains...
Posted on 06/21/2019 1:01:18 PM PDT by Gamecock
A Russian poker player and Instagram influencer was found dead in her Moscow apartment.
Liliya Novikova, who was a well-known member of the online poker playing community, was found by an elderly neighbor, according to Russian media reports, dead in her bathroom.
Russia’s Investigative Committee (SK) was cited by BBC as saying the 26-year-old’s death was due to electrocution.
“During the initial examination, traces of an electrical injury were found on the victim’s body,” a source told the Russian news agency TASS, as cited by CNN.
Russia Today corroborated the report that Novikova suffered an electric shock while using a hairdryer but noted she may have fatally struck her head as she fell.
No official report on the woman’s death has been released yet, but an autopsy is expected to confirm the exact cause.
Multiple Russian media reports suggest authorities are treating her death as an accident.
Welfare Check The Evening Standard reported that Novikova’s parents raised an alarm when they could not get in touch with her.
The Moskovsky Komsomolets, a Russian daily, was cited in the BBC report as noting that the elderly neighbor that found her body had a key to her apartment and was asked by the parents to perform a welfare check.
“Relatives became agitated when the girl stopped responding to phone calls and asked her neighbour to check on her,” a Russian official told TASS, as cited by Australia’s ABC news.
“She found the girl’s body.”
Novikova was an active contributor on Twitch.tv, a live online gaming streaming platform. Russia Today reported she had a contract with PokerStars, an online poker cardroom that bills itself as “the world’s largest poker room” with “the biggest tournaments online.”
The Twitter account for PokerStars sent out condolences.
PokerStars Ambassador Lex Veldhuis, who is also active on the Twitch streaming platform, shared his condolences, saying, “she had such a good influence on poker/twitch community through her hard work and efforts.”
“I’ve always admired all the many different things she did. What a tragic loss, and so young,” he wrote.
Team Pokerstars Pro player, Liv Boeree commented on her death: “Utterly heartbreaking. She was such a sweet, beautiful and talented girl who worked so hard to promote the game. Rest in peace lady.”
Condolences were also expressed in comments on her posts on Instagram, where she boasted more than 17,000 followers.
Novikova graduated from the faculty of engineering at the Moscow State Technical University, according to reports.
She boasts close to $100,000 in in earnings, according to poker database Hendon Mob, with her top live cash proceeds amounting to $54,068.
That will be $8,000.
And Petersen’s gone quite mad, from what I hear.
Just wait until he sees The Urban Sombrero.
The horror. The horror.
A simple GFCI circuit would have prevented that. Russia IS a third world country.
“she may have fatally struck her head as she fell.”
The notion that a murderer beat her to death, then threw her in the tub and tossed in the hair dryer as a cover up seems a lot more credible than accidental electrocution. Even in Russia, where faulty televisions used to be the leading cause of house fires.
Another bizarre death—French singer Claude Francois who sang Comme d’Habitude (As Usual)—Paul Anka put English lyrics to it and it became My Way...and covered December 1963 (Oh What a Night) as Cette Annee La...and was about to try to become a success in the US...
But was electrocuted as he tried to adjust a light fixture while taking a shower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy1FiOk5FPY&feature=youtu.be&t=67
What a shame. RIP.
Those vintage flyback transformers have zapped plenty of people.
Casinos have always treated habitual winners the way the Clintons treat people who know too much.
“A simple GFCI circuit would have prevented that. Russia IS a third world country.”
Many countries to not have a ground in their electrical systems - Japan is an excellent example. 100 Volts and two simple wires...
I think we are overly litigious in our society...suffocation warnings on plastic bags to prevent infants and children whom cannot read from suffocating...
This could be an accident though likely not.
If there was a GFCI circuit breaker then she ‘...might have fallen asleep and drowned due toot much vodka or the like’...a hit is a hit.
they aren't brains...
The bathroom is the most dangerous room in the house. Stuff happens a lot more than one might guess.
Probably an assault hair dryer. Bet it wasn’t even registered. Those things should be banned.
“Another bizarre death—French singer Claude Francois who sang...”
Yeah, and he sold more than 70,000,000 records! He was a huge star in Europe and might have become something of a star in the U.S. too.
You would think she have known better.
NO! People are stupid!
Apparently her degree was not in “Electrical” engineering.
220, 221. Whatever it takes
It amazes me how many people do not respect electricity. I know people are told what to do and not to do- all these appliances now even have tags with the basic do not information. Yet many act as though they can do as they please.
Heh
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