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Floyd L. Davidson

wrote:
Here;s a novel thought. Why don't you cite a reference that says the
practice shown in the pool pic is one that is safe? Or that a hair
dryer falling into a bathtub isn't anything to worry about because it
can't harm you.

I've not said that.

You need to learn to read.

The pool pic is not something that is "safe". It's just
something that is not necessarily going to kill you.
Same with the hair dryer falling into the bathtub. Both
situations, with the wrong circumstances, *can* *kill*
*you*.

The myth is the idea that either one is *necessarily*
going to kill you.

With the right circumstances, nobody gets electrocuted.
And that is what happens quite often.

If you watch the movies you'd think that tossing a radio
or hair dryer into the bathtub with someone is
necessarily going to result in their death. In fact it
just about as likely to not hurt them at all, and
thoroughly convince them that they should hurt
*you*. ;-)

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).

Hmmm, now how is that? You spent the last 5 posts going back and
forth with Clark, trying to make the case that water has too high a
resistance for enough current to be conducted to ever harm anyone
standing in it.

You do understand the difference between being 5-10 feet
away from a grounded point in fresh water, and being 6
inches from the source of electricity in soapy water,
eh?

It's a huge difference, and one of life or death.

Yet, now, you attribute the two girls deaths in
exactly the situation you say can't happen, to grabbing onto a water
spigot.

That can't happen in a pool where there is no water
spigot.

Generally bathtubs all have at least a water spigot and
a drain, both of which are grounded. Many have other
grounded fixtures too. Some (mine) have *none*, but
that is rare.

Well, unless you're gonna now argue the water spigot was
energized, there goes your whole BS argument.

Grounded.

And what you just stated above clearly shows you;re an idiot.

Ahem, you are the one who signs as an Idiot, and makes
idiotic statements out of ignorance and apparently were
educated by what you've seen in the movies...

No one
in their right mind that is familiar with electricity would ever
advocate that someone sitting in a bathtub should PICK UP THE HAIR
DRYER THAT JUST FELL IN and remove it.

That's not true. Grabbing the cord, at the most distant
point, and flinging it out, would probably be safe enough.

If the water is dirty, don't do it though. On the other
hand if the water was just run and has no soap...

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

The average adult survives many unsafe and potentially deadly things,

So you admit that it is not necessarily going to
electrocute someone just because the hair dryer falls
into the tub.

That *is* the point.

including car wrecks and gun shots. The average adult will survive
two pulls of the trigger at Russian roulette. That doesn't make
those things safe. That argument is specious.

You didn't sign this article?

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