A teenage girl was electrocuted after dropping her laptop into the bath as she twittered in the tub.
Police said they believed Maria Barbu, 17, had tried to plug in her laptop with wet hands after the battery died during a long session on social networking site Twitter as she took a soak at her home in Brasov, central Romania.
She was found dead by her parents with the laptop lying next to her.
What? No Darwin Award?
She is not alone
Sounds like two shoots to the head to me:))
that’s one less corruption of the gene pool to worry about
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#1 – McCullough – What? No Darwin Award?
Agree. She earned it!
14-18 year olds should be exempted from winning a darwin award. It undermines its significance when everyone owns one from that time in their life.
#6 – JimR – It undermines its significance when everyone owns one from that time in their life.
Hmm… no. Darwin Awards are only given to people who die from their own stupidity.
Don’t you just love how stupidity and lack of common sense has a natural way of self elimination. Of course she was OK until the charger came into play.
#7, Jägermeister, I recall other times an award was given out to survivors on DU. I didn’t know you had to die, just probably would die if you kept up the dangerous and stupid activity. But having to die does make sense as a rule.
Still, at 17, the girl most likely just had a moment of bad judgement. I’m damn lucky I’m still alive from my teen years. I would still exonerate 14-17 year olds from the award.
Maybe manufacturers should start placing mechanisms similar to hair dryers and the like, where it would cut the electricity supply when overloaded.
10~ Or just maybe don’t use electrical items near the bathtub, and for goodness sake, tell your kids not to do the same.
#10. That’s what a GFI is for.
#9 – JimR
Sorry dude… you don’t need to be dead. Here are the rules:
Reproduction
Out of the gene pool: dead or sterile.
Excellence
Astounding misapplication of judgment.
Self-Selection
Cause one’s own demise.
Maturity
Capable of sound judgment.
Veracity
The event must be true.
My parents taught me about the dangers with electricity when I was young. I think she was old enough to know.
This is why we have earth leakage detectors in Australia. The current flowing between Active and Neutral should be EXACTLY the same.
If there is a difference it means that the current is “leaking” to earth, maybe through an idiot with a laptop in a bathtub.
It takes very little current to trip them and it’s so fast it does so before Darwins law can be enacted… dam regulators maybe that’s why we have so many stupid ppl breeding in the West.
Jägermeister, If there are bad choices to be made, teenagers take the cake. She probably knew the dangers but thought if she was careful she could get away with it. That’s a typical teenager thought process… invincibility…, and why so many teens suffer accidental deaths.
I don’t know your age, but maybe you’ve forgotten….did you ever get an electrical shock (household current)? Recklessly played with fire? swam in a dangerous area? been stupidly reckless with a bicycle? Climbed to dangerous heights without safety gear? Am I the only one LOL?
Well, maybe I deserved a darwin award, but I have since produced a couple of geniuses in my kids… one in particular… okay I’m going to brag now… he never scored below 90% in any subject and passed every year in high school with above 95%, proficient with both sides of the brain (just as strong in art as in science) and is entering Nanotechnology Engineering a the University of Waterloo in the fall. It’s the toughest course there, and he was one of 100 chosen from thousands that applied. Gush, gush, gush.
BTW, thanks for posting the Darwin Award rules. Fun.
A twit twitting on Twitter in the bath ! Who would thought?
#15 – JimR
Yes, I did a lot of those stupid things… but then again, I was much younger when I did them (below ten years old). This girl was 17… no longer a little kid.
I’m glad you’ve got bright kids. I’m just as fortunate. My son is in a gifted program and averages 95%. I wish your son all the best at Waterloo. It’s a good University.
Thanks Jagermeister. Best wishes for your son as well.
Thanks JimR.
And her last tweet was:
“Well, just sitting here in the tub. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgsgshh! (lol)”