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Debbie Dunkley

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small shock to child in restaurant.
« on: January 08, 2019, 12:52:46 PM »

This happened in hubby's home town in the UK.
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Re: small shock to child in restaurant.
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2019, 02:38:24 PM »

This happened in hubby's home town in the UK.
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Wow, had that been my daughter in a similar situation of neglect/negligence, the article would have read differently.  The lead-in would have been centered around dad’s rampage.

Burned hands is no small shock - that’s serious stuff.
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Re: small shock to child in restaurant.
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2019, 02:44:10 PM »

Wow, had that been my daughter in a similar situation of neglect/negligence, the article would have read differently.  The lead-in would have been centered around dad’s rampage.

In the brief article there's no explanation as to how the girl's hands were burned by wiring supposedly not energized.  That said, even if energized there would need to be additional failures for a shock to be delivered to the victim.
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Re: small shock to child in restaurant.
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2019, 03:43:26 PM »

This happened in hubby's home town in the UK.
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So even the Brits say "electrocuted" when they really mean "electrically shocked". Sounds like management was busy knitting A$$hole covers.

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Re: small shock to child in restaurant.
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2019, 04:24:29 PM »

In the brief article there's no explanation as to how the girl's hands were burned by wiring supposedly not energized.  That said, even if energized there would need to be additional failures for a shock to be delivered to the victim.
The only thing i can think of (and something that has bit me in the ass before) is a still charged reservoir capacitor, esp. if on the primary side.
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Re: small shock to child in restaurant.
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2019, 07:38:47 AM »

In the brief article there's no explanation as to how the girl's hands were burned by wiring supposedly not energized.  That said, even if energized there would need to be additional failures for a shock to be delivered to the victim.

Looking at the article, there's a circuit board being held up by its connecting wires. Could be anything, including stored energy in capacitors as someone mentioned earlier.

Electricity here is pretty safe if everything is properly installed - you have to go out of your way (ie, have an appliance opened up, powered, and poke around inside) to get a shock. You can't even poke a screwdriver into the wall unless you manage to break the shutters.

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Re: small shock to child in restaurant.
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2019, 09:44:24 AM »

This thread reminded me of this - somewhat related:

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Re: small shock to child in restaurant.
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2019, 12:28:54 PM »

For some reason I couldn't see the article when this was first posted.  I am curious what that circuit board is?  I once build a neon lamp driver that looked a little similar-if their is an oscillator running a higher than 60 Hz freq to that transformer it could easily give a painful, though relatively harmless shock-and that transformer could be thermally hot enough to cause burns-especially on a childs uncalloused hands.
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Re: small shock to child in restaurant.
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2019, 06:03:33 PM »

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You can't even poke a screwdriver into the wall unless you manage to break the shutters.

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In my experience, most receptacles are not tamper resistant. Only new work in the past 10 years or so.



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Re: small shock to child in restaurant.
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2019, 08:10:22 PM »

Looking at the article, there's a circuit board being held up by its connecting wires. Could be anything, including stored energy in capacitors as someone mentioned earlier.

Electricity here is pretty safe if everything is properly installed - you have to go out of your way (ie, have an appliance opened up, powered, and poke around inside) to get a shock. You can't even poke a screwdriver into the wall unless you manage to break the shutters.

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I looked at it soon after Debbie posted.  There was no picture displayed (although that could have been the JavaScript blocker in my browser).
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