wrote:
On Feb 3, 1:34*pm, (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote:
You probably think if someone is sitting in the bathtub
and drops an electric hair dry, plugged in and working,
into the water that they will be electrocuted... *and
who knows how many other myths!

You mean like this?

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...C1A9629482 60

2 Electrocuted in Bathtub
UPI
Published: October 30, 1984
An electric hair dryer fell into a bathtub while two children were
bathing tonight, electrocuting the 8-year- old girl and her 6-year-old
brother, the authorities said.

The children, Sandra and Shawn Austin, were pronounced dead at Fort
Worth hospitals, the police said. Officers said the children were
found by an older sister when she went to check on them. The sister
told the police she had placed the hair dryer on a shelf or on a sink
in the bathroom, but officers did not know how it was knocked or fell
into the tub. "

Idiot

Appropriately signed, Idiot.


But when you have to go back a quarter of a century to
find an example where that is claimed, maybe the claim
isn't so good.

Regardless, two children... who don't know enough to
just pick it up and throw it out. Or to just step out,
and probably aren't big enough to do that without
grabbing onto something... like the water spigot (which
in fact will get you electrocuted).

But the average adult who has that experience survives
without even getting a tingle from it.



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Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)