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.
Actually, her last tweet was:
battery is running low, brb
http://twitter.com/mariabarbu
I call BS. She has only 15 updates, all in one single day, i.e. it’s a brand new account. And the sequence of comments looks staged. I bet it’s a prank.
#21 Sounds fishy indeed.
To be PC with PETA (since it looks there are some PC people here -yeah, that warning for laptops is idiotic-), here’s the above sentence politically corrected:
Sounds sea kitty indeed.
Her parent couldn’t afford to get her an iPhone so she could twitter in the tub? How sad.
Guess what? The Twitter Bath Girl story is not that accurate. The girl was Flavia Boriceanu, not Maria Barbu. She died over 5 days ago while trying to plug her laptop in an outlet located in the bathroom while having her hands wet. The body was found by her father a couple of hours later. There’s was nothing he could do.
Also, Flavia was smart, polite and nice girl. That’s how all her friends and family describe her.
Stolen from a Romanian news site
#23 It has been proven that oy!Phones carry diseases. See what happened to Steve Jobs.
#24 An intelligent girl who though manipulating power cords & ac outlets while wet was smart.
#21 – Luc – Actually, her last tweet was:
battery is running low, brb
#22 – pedro – Sounds fishy indeed.
Still funny.
#24,
… trying to plug her laptop in an outlet located in the bathroom while having her hands wet.
That is why Ground Fault Interrupts are required in all new houses and renovations, and also very highly recommended to be retrofitted in all bathrooms and kitchens in existing houses. You can blame her daddy for that.
The rest is funny.
Well, whatever the woman’s real name was, the definite BS factor in this story is that the woman “died while twittering.” Gimme a break. She died *using the computer,* or rather died trying to plug an electrical appliance to the wall with wet hands. Whether she was twittering, checking mail or browsing the Web is completely irrelevant. Some inane crowd wants to make everything look or sound like it’s about Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. Fuck Twitter. All that incessant, craze-bent publicity blitz just makes me hate Twitter all the more rather than feel compelled to use it. And I will hate it even more a few years later, when even the current Twitter fans will look back and realize how stupid that fad was, but refusing to admit it was stupid all along from the get-go. Like the numbskull girls who idolized Menudo in the 80s.
I’m no Electrical engineer, but I think that maybe dropping a laptop into the tub may not be fatal; I think it could be if you drop the Adapter as well? Am I mixing oranges and apples?
#29 – Cepor21
She got the shock at the wall socket.
Certainly she earned it
When I was young, my parents taught me about the dangers with electricity