Twitter Kills
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jun 21, 2009 07:41 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bathing, Bizarre, Internet, Schoolgirls, Sites, Suicide, Twitter
Vapid social networking site Twitter claimed the life of another hapless victim with more finality than usual recently when the girl in question accidentally electrocuted herself whilst trying to keep up with her tweets.
The 17-year-old girl in question, a resident of Romania, was using the web-based social networking application in the bath; it seems her Twittering session extended for such a long period of time that the battery of her laptop died.
Rather than interrupt either her bathing or her Twittering, she instead attempted to plug in her laptop to the adapter, but unfortunately did so with wet hands.
It seems it was either the shock from the mains or from subsequently dropping her laptop into the bath which killed her, for she was found by her parents lying lifeless with her laptop by her side.
Via the Austrian Times.
We do not hear what her last Tweet was…
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my power cut out wen i was reading this article.. hahahh fail... D:
Well, at least the artists got the color of the girl in the article pic right.
her last twitter: dying
stupid girl :D
I lol'd
twitter is not the one to blame dammit D :
My cat knocked over my brand new DSi I got for my birthday into her water bowl today and broke it, along with the game in it....
This reminded me of the heartbreak...)8
Darwin Award lulz etc, whatever, a 17 year old girl died.
Is it her fault? Obviously. Should she have known better then to do something like that? Obviously.
But how is a teenage girls death, no matter the circumstance, actually hilarious to some of you?
Not complaining about article at all, but 90% of these comments are pretty terrible.
I don't think they are laughing at the girl dying, they are laughing at the way in which she died which involved the twitter program.
Obviously if your going to take the context out of things its not funny. Besides why are you even on this site if it disgusts you to see morals fly out the window?
A 17 year old should know not to use electronics while in the bath tub. This girl was stupid enough to plug her laptop in to an electrical socket with wet hands because she couldn't be bothered to stop using her precious twitter for a few minutes. This girl deserves her darwin award and hopefully this convinces some people not to be so obsessive about these websites (CNN I'm looking at you).
If this type of stuff offends you then I recommend that you stop using the internet because these types of comments are everywhere. You shouldn't expect a bunch of anonymous people to show compassion for every idiot that kills themselves in these utterly ridiculous ways because, as heartless as it sounds, there are a lot of people that believe the world would be a better place without those idiots.
well she was a romanian girl.What else would you expect.
dammit i knew there was a good reason to hate twitter.
That's why is always better to take something like a portable console or a small -unplugged- laptop in the bath (IF you actually decide to soak with an electric device against all common sense)
Some people... I wonder why she couldn't just relax and wait to finish her bath to use twitter. Gosh, is not like the site is going to run away.
Her last tweet was: brb dieing from electric shock lol
Now for 90% of the CNN newsteam to go this same fate.
heh, just another case of random stupidity. and how many times have we heard, "no electronics near the bath water"
has anyone seen the movie Idiocracy?
it's coming true......
how did they know she tweeted before she died?
"she was found by her parents lying lifeless with her laptop by her side."...
Was the laptop ok?
"Hang on, i'm just gonna plug this in..."
Sudsy breasts are sudsy.
"death by Twitter" more like "death by fucking idiocy"
This is very sad. I love technology,but taking a laptop in the bath is a bit much. Something I don't understand is what the need for Tweeter is? Since there are already instant message programs and texting via cell phones, Tweeter seems a little redundant.
Proud to say that I'm not registered to any social networking sites. ^_^
That's the same of being proud of not having a cellphone, like some old people do.
Seriously, is there a limit for stupidity?
downright stupid.... why do women always have to use such stupid sites like twitter to keep up their social contacts? Women,men will never understand them because women never grow up and still behave like kids, doing such brainless acts like using electric devices in the bath <_<
Those who lives with laptop, will die with laptop... Idiocy prevails...
I'm amazed that no one has simply suggested a waterproof computer built into the shower/bath. Sort of like those fridges with TV's built into them.
Poor girl. She may have survived in a futuristic setting.
I could only imagine what her final words on tweeter was...
ouuchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
well at least her genes are out of society. thanks so much. the darwin's in the mail.
Twitter sucks, period.
OP girl looks cute <3
Wow... just....wow.... who's really stupid enough in this day an age to have electricals in a bath?? Christ.... Just a phone that supported twitter would have worked for her... why the whole laptop was needed I've no clue...
Internet in the bath.... tis one step into insanity that I'm not willing to take.
I hate the boobs in this picture.
Because a normal woman's boobs stand up abnormally when she's in the bathtub like someone's holding them up from behind.
The nipples should be further down.
She has implants.
why the hell would you even bring an electronic device in the bath anyway? if you're so addicted, then hasten your bathing process and resume your activity. damn. people these days. all logic just flies out the window.
i do feel sorry for the girl, but not for how it happened. it's pure stupidity.
at least, she has twitted before she dies.
Twitter killing people? thats nothing I know someone that was reaped by Youtube.
No one is important enough to warrant going onto social networking sites while in the bathtub.
Especially not someone from Romania.
No GFCI outlet in the bathroom?
tweeeeeeebzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
This isn't new. Twitter is used to hunt down, arrest, and and kill protesters in Iran right now.
What a TWIT--ter... I'm betting they found her still holding the wire on one hand while looking like she's Still trying to twitter away on the other while it's happening. Those last messages must still be in debate into what she was trying to say as she was frying.
A excerpt(perhaps?):
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A true fool for the Darwin Awards! Better hustle on over to report this HEelarious news on the dang silly dead muuron!
oh..and,~
HAHAAHHHAHAHHAHAHHAAHHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA* -uhwoo- my chest~ hehehe ehhe heehe... the world is truly.. truly special in oh so many ways.
Well... the addiction to sites like that is getting very uncontrolled.. but it´s funny watch what people do to be online all the time..even during bath :)
we have to say it was a very shocking bath :P
ouch...this can happen...
Yet another moron leaves this world.
I'm guessing their bathroom didn't have a ground fault interruptor (as I think they're called) It's a device that's mandated in bathrooms in the USA (not sure for Europe). It pretty much keeps you from being grounded while in the bathroom.
The way to die from electrocution is if a high enough amperage flows through your heart, meaning that you've either got one hand on each prong of the plug, or you're grounded and touching a socket.
This is why if you touch live household wires with just one hand, while not grounded, you'll just feel a shock, instead of having your heart stop.
don't know about the rest of Europe... but in the UK we just don't have mains sockets in the bathroom xD
Doesnt RCD disconnect circuit whenever it detects that current is "leaking" somewhere? (If we are even talking about same device)
Don´t know about rest of europe, but here in Finland RCD is mandated in new installations since 1.1.2008
Maybe she was in the bathtub?
If so, then she wouldn't be grounded. Unless the bathtub had water trickling down towards the floor continuously when the charger brick fell into the water.
RCDs are supposed to disconnect, when it detects a ground leakage. Yet, in this case, she probably got shocked from the raw AC voltage of the charger brick.
I don't know about the rest of the world but here in Bulgaria we don't even go with laptops or devices require electricity except for a mobile phone as a clock and a razor. xD
Last Tweet: "BRB, battery almost dead"
"BRB, as as soon as I reincarnate."
In cases like these... "Oh you~"
Maybe they could use that to sell more MacBooks, it's so light it floats! hopefully with the side connecting the power adapter above the waterlevel.
romanians again? (o fii pe bune stirea sau fac ãstia misto de noi?) ... Twitter and Hi5 are bad for these kids ... (mai ales proastele de 17 ani)
It's true, the news appear on local tv station. The suppose to be a very smart one and the laptop was a gift from their parents.
Why does this country always pop-up on sankaku?(firal al naibi de Romani din cauzala unora ca ei ajungem sa ne facem de ras).The only other country I see often on sankaku except Japan is Rusia.....and Romania
What can I say (toate proastele ne strica imagine......) She was stupid but don't listen to what shit appears here Romania is actually a nice coutry (mai putin parlamentarii care sunt niste idiotzi).
Things like this can happen in every country(TokRaa care e IDul tau de messenger sa mai vorbim?).At least we donțt lose our virginity 6 times
And people think using laptops on the throne is weird.
Hmmm I don't think using the laptop in the tub as it appears to as she took the bath to relax not bathe and surfing the web is relaxing to most.
She got so relaxed, she died.
I wonder if she's happy now...
wwwww I used to do that with my old laptop. Nowadays, you'd end up with second degree burns on your lap. :P
lol so true
that's why you use a smartphone for that function nowadays
It'd have to be from the mains. Laptop batteries neither have the voltage or ampage to cause any sort of harm in a vast body of water, let alone kill.
Since her laptop supposedly got into the water I presume she was shocked when she plugged it in, and then dropped it into the bath, finishing the job?
I guess she got nothing better to play with.
Actually, the only way for her to actually die would be she dropped her laptop's charger brick INTO the bathtub.A regular discharge from the tip of the charger will never be enough to kill a person...MOST of the time.
Stupid people don't die easily.
What a Tweest....
died for the laptop, god!! O.o
dude, epic first comment
Poor girl...
the laptop was lost...
Under 18, not applicable for a Darwin Award.
I bet her last tweet was "oops! running out of battery, gonna charge laptop now :D"
tasteless, i know.
So, has anyone sent it in yet?
And nothing of value was lost.
You, Anonon, are a wit and a gentleman of much class.
What was the repair bill for the durability on the laptop?
http://www.darwinawards.com/
I'm surprised this can happen outside USA, too...
What's a Darwin Award. Sarcasm on the survival of the fittest?
at least she enjoyed the last moment b4 she died, thx to the laptop
I smell another Darwin Award!
She should get two of them.
Nominated for the Darwin Peace Prize.
Should of been, What a Tweetst.
Nah, my way was better.
Man, this bath feels so damn greaHNNNNNNGGGGGGGG...
I LMAO'd.
And here I was thinking society hindered evolution, but here is proof of the dumber of species dieing before being able to reproduce! The world balances itself!
There is no goal to hinder.
Well, the problem is that being generally useless or helpless used to be enough to get you culled by evolution.
Now you have to do something EXCEEDINGLY DUMB, AND be incredibly unlucky.
I say we put more outlets in baths worldwide.
In the case above, checked. AND checked.
no theyre going to put saftey labels on laptops not to use them in the bathtub.
For two reasons. One is CYA. The other is because making people think about the consequences of their actions, even for minute intervals of time before acting, makes them more aware of them. It isn't that you don't understand the idea already, but that immediate consideration of the consequences of actions will, on average, result in more thoughtful behavior across an aggregate of people than would otherwise.
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Doesn't she know that water is weak to electricity!? God...didn't pokemon teach us anything??
wait since when? my water type always KO's those pussy electricity types
Lol this is true. Why the fuck do u need a label for everything!? Is it not common sense that kids can choke on little toys? Is it not common sense that fresh brewed coffee is gonna be fucking hot!?
Makes no sense to me...
That is why the world needs call centers: for people too dumb to read manuals and/or labels.
it brings jobs, so why not?
Apparently, there are still people dumb enough...no wait, too fucking retarded to think of the possible dangerous outcomes when they don't read such labels.
Hell, even my mom fails to read those labels and end up doing something stupid like eating an apple pie from McDonalds RIGHT after I bought it for her.
Caution: Hot tea may be hot.
ya unfortunately not well enough