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because what is generally acccepted is not always true. Eg if you connect your shower head to live you can shower under it without harm - as long as you don't touch it. Setups along those lines are found in the 3rd world.

NT

So lets get this staight, rather than leave the socket and charger on the floor out of reach, heput the live socket bar on his chest? Well surely anyone would see that this is going to be very dangerous.

Brian

Twas the extension cord socket with the charger plugged in

BigClive's suicide shower Youtube video

I think you may well have a point. Nothing focusses the mind about being careful flammable with solvents like the smell of singed eyebrows.

Or as a world class pyrotechnician once put it to me "All the best fireworkers makers in the world are missing precisely one finger". Apparently it hurts like hell and you never make the same mistake again.

Of course it's also possible that this sort of thing need not be taught in school. Parents could give a little education to their kids instead of expecting school teachers to bring up their brats.

Don't tell the coroner:-)

Basically it was this

The outcome prevents idiocy of this magnitude being repeated by the same idiot. Very efficient.

I suspect that those who need them are also among those who won't bother to read them.

Errm,

And I still have not punched the wanker that threw the petrol on the fire.

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Which begs the question - Are the warnings there for the benefit of the consumer, or the protection of the manufacturer? The latter seems obvious.

The latter, of course. Most of these warnings are there because some anencephalic has done something stupid in the past and complained/sued about it. So, if it happens again, the mnaufacturer can point at the warning, shrug and hang up the 'phone.

If this 'tard was indeed using a mains extension lead in the bath, we can but hope that he hasn't managed to reproduce.

Signs can be stolen or vandalised.

Just because there was a sign there last week and not one this week doesn't mean they've realigned the road.

Owain

Presumably the warning section of the instructions didn't clearly state the inadvisability of taking a bath with a mains extension socket on your chest.

They must read this group cos they've edited that portion of text to make more sense now.

Or, as the sign in many labs has it;

"Do not look into laser with remaining eye."

Yes, you'd have to be very unlucky for a mains-to-5V PSU to fail in such a way that it fed 240V to the 5V end and for water to then conduct that to the skin. But having the mains end of the PSU on your wet chest is asking for trouble - it only takes a bit of water to run down into the live pin and then onto your body, and you have a 240V shock in the making, especially as the bathwater is probably earthed via the plughole or via a metal bath (maybe with a bit of enamel missing so the water is touching the metal) and the water pipes.

The difficult is that sometimes you need to use a mains-powered device in a bathroom - eg mains-powered clippers when my wife is trimming my hair. I make sure the (fibreglass, not enamelled metal) bath is completely dry, and sit well away from bath taps, shower hose (metal) and anything else that could be earthed.