Tag: ELECTROCUTION

We shouldn't need to tell you that electronics and water don't mix. We also shouldn't have to say that there's no need to tweet while scrubbing your body clean. According to the Croatian Times, Romanian teen Flavia Maria Boricea was apparently so addicted to the microblogging service that she needed to tweet from the shower, and she spent so much time updating, her laptop battery died. Rather ...

We've seen deaths at the hands of cell phones take many different forms -- explosions, drownings, car accidents, even one kid who got hit by a train. One we haven't seen yet though? Electrocution. It seems a young man in Ghana picked up his cell phone to answer it while it was being charged. Shortly afterwards electricity zipped through his body and threw him to the floor with burns on his ...

Seems tech has a contract out for geeks. Let this be a warning to all of you: Don't touch the inside of your PC when you are wet. According to Shanghai Daily, a young man, simply identified as "Wu," was shocked to death by his PC. Wu took the case off the outside of his PC to prevent it from overheating. For some unexplained reason, he was not running the air conditioner in his home, so he wasn't ...