# Fred # wrote:
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Catching up on Tivoed Monk episodes; episode from a couple of weeks
ago, the school gym teacher is murdered while showering at school by a
mysterious hand pouring water all over the floor, then dropping onto
the water on the floor a hair drier, which we have just seen the hand
plugging into a GFI.....

Even without the GFCI it would harmless; why would current flow up through
the body when it can just go through the water?
But it is just a TV show, and a comedy at that.


Looks like current divides between the water and the gym teacher assuming he
is touching something that is grounded like a faucet handle. Don't think
this could kill a normal person even without GFI.

No, the teacher steps onto the floor and zzzt. I never understood how
that was supposed to work in tv and movies in general. One wire here,
the other wire inches away, both sitting in a presumably somewhat
grounded puddle, a person several feet away touches the water and drops
dead. We didn't cover that in Kirchoff's Law class.