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Mike Sokol

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Hot Tub & Beer & Outlets, Oh my...
« on: July 30, 2014, 05:51:21 PM »

What's wrong with this picture?  :o

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Re: Hot Tub & Beer & Outlets, Oh my...
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2014, 06:06:29 PM »

As usual, the one picture does not tell the whole story.

These are actually Electrical Engineering students.

They went to great lengths to make sure this was safe before they did it, but you can't tell that just by looking at this photo. There is a whole write-up somewhere on the internet about what all they did to make sure it was safe. Based on what I read (when I read it several years ago) I figured it sounded safe enough I would probably get into the pool with them.

Things are not always as frighteningly awful as they first appear.
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Re: Hot Tub & Beer & Outlets, Oh my...
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2014, 06:14:00 PM »

What's wrong is that the picture keeps showing up on the www like a bad penny...

I hope they kept themselves safe but the picture without the backstory (on forums other than this) might encourage similar looking but dangerous behavior.

JR

PS: That's a hot tub? They have their own risks...
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Re: Hot Tub & Beer & Outlets, Oh my...
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2014, 06:26:49 PM »

What's wrong is that the picture keeps showing up on the www like a bad penny...

I hope they kept themselves safe but the picture without the backstory (on forums other than this) might encourage similar looking but dangerous behavior.

JR

Yes, it is not a good idea to do this if you do not understand what is going on.

PS: That's a hot tub? They have their own risks...

I'm thinking it could be hot in more than one way.
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Re: Hot Tub & Beer & Outlets, Oh my...
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2014, 06:33:36 PM »

What's wrong with this picture?  :o

Glass bottles in the pool...big no no. Wrong kind of beer too
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Re: Hot Tub & Beer & Outlets, Oh my...
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2014, 12:05:47 AM »

What's wrong with this picture?  :o

That's obvious. A lack of women. (Maybe they are all too smart to participate....)  Mark C.
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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2014, 06:20:55 AM »

That's obvious. A lack of women. (Maybe they are all to smart to participate....)  Mark C.

You're right. With all that beer and testosterone one would think the babes would show up.

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Re: Hot Tub & Beer & Outlets, Oh my...
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2014, 08:47:08 AM »

For years it has been a common scenario in movies for an electrical item, usually a toaster, to be dropped into a bathtub in order to electrocute the occupant (either murder or suicide).

I wonder though what the reality is.  With the live connection in close proximaty to the neutral and ground connections, I'm sure it would short out internally and pose no threat at all to the occupant of the bath.

Any real world examples to confirm or bust my thoughts?

(I'm not going to try it!).


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Re: Hot Tub & Beer & Outlets, Oh my...
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2014, 10:26:55 AM »

For years it has been a common scenario in movies for an electrical item, usually a toaster, to be dropped into a bathtub in order to electrocute the occupant (either murder or suicide).

I wonder though what the reality is.  With the live connection in close proximaty to the neutral and ground connections, I'm sure it would short out internally and pose no threat at all to the occupant of the bath.

Any real world examples to confirm or bust my thoughts?

(I'm not going to try it!).


Steve.

There was recently a case of flight attendant in China who was electrocuted in the bath by a faulty cell phone charger. Apple went so far as to swap new apple chargers for dubious, apparently pirate ones that were dangerous. 

JR
 

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