Poll of the Day > A 16-Year-Old Dies After Being Electrocuted By His Headphones

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LinkPizza
12/25/18 10:47:37 PM
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.youredm.com/2018/12/10/16-year-old-dies-after-being-electrocuted-by-his-headphones/amp/

If you google the title, you can find probably whichever internet news site you like, also... I just grabbed one...
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aHappySacka
12/25/18 11:19:03 PM
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Nah, I'll wait for Duckbear to post it plus attractive photos of the headphones.
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wwinterj25
12/25/18 11:41:01 PM
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Shocking news indeed.
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LinkPizza
12/26/18 12:10:40 AM
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aHappySacka posted...
Nah, I'll wait for Duckbear to post it plus attractive photos of the headphones.

JgMAELL
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dancer62
12/26/18 2:13:45 AM
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Has to be a constructed story. I can't imagine earbud wires carrying enough current to melt plastic before burning themselves out. Even if they were plugged directly into a light socket.

Then imagine the transformer in a charger shorting out and shooting 110 or 220 VAC into the battery of a cell phone, ipod, or whatever, likely just fry the charging diode, maybe explode the Lithium battery, but earbuds? That's one that doesn't even need Mythbusters or Snopes.

Edit: Yep, found it on Snopes: unproven
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FatalAccident
12/26/18 2:16:02 AM
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Okay duckbear
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DrCidd
12/26/18 2:21:34 AM
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Was he listening to AC/DC?
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dancer62
12/26/18 2:26:31 AM
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DrCidd posted...
Was he listening to AC/DC?

ROFL! Good one!
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Yellow
12/26/18 2:28:01 AM
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I'd find this easier to believe if the headphones were being charged.

Through the audio jack though? Absolutely no way in hell. Some part of this story is made up or reported wrong. Those tiny wires would burn away (and just about everything in the phone would short) before anything remotely lethal would pass through.

dancer62 posted...
Edit: Yep, found it on Snopes: unproven

Not surprised.
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shadowsword87
12/26/18 2:33:20 AM
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"the cable was probably faulty"
So... a faulty cable doesn't do that, just to be clear.
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Yellow
12/26/18 2:41:50 AM
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shadowsword87 posted...
"the cable was probably faulty"
So... a faulty cable doesn't do that, just to be clear.

Right... it can do exactly two things, short out and stop working, or work correctly.

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Mead
12/26/18 2:42:13 AM
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shadowsword87 posted...
"the cable was probably faulty"
So... a faulty cable doesn't do that, just to be clear.


It certainly could if it isnt properly galvanized and creates a path of lesser resistance for the current
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shadowsword87
12/26/18 2:45:55 AM
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Mead posted...
shadowsword87 posted...
"the cable was probably faulty"
So... a faulty cable doesn't do that, just to be clear.


It certainly could if it isnt properly galvanized and creates a path of lesser resistance for the current


Right through their head?
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Yellow
12/26/18 2:46:40 AM
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Mead posted...
shadowsword87 posted...
"the cable was probably faulty"
So... a faulty cable doesn't do that, just to be clear.


It certainly could if it isnt properly galvanized and creates a path of lesser resistance for the current

That wouldn't shock the user though, that would just fry the wall wart.

I mean, at worst.
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dancer62
12/26/18 2:50:45 AM
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Mead posted...
shadowsword87 posted...
"the cable was probably faulty"
So... a faulty cable doesn't do that, just to be clear.


It certainly could if it isnt properly galvanized and creates a path of lesser resistance for the current

"Galvanized"? Like rain gutters? Made of steel, plated with zinc so it's resistant to rust? Copper wires aren't "galvanized". And hair-thin earbud wires would melt before conducting any significant current to the earbud, they're rated only for signal-level: millivolts at nearly zero current.
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RoboXgp89
12/26/18 7:50:47 AM
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if it heated up his ear, the air pressure could pop his ear drum and kill him maybe from shock

i know damaging someone's ear drums in both ears at the same time is enough to kill them
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The Popo
12/26/18 7:53:14 AM
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aHappySacka posted...
Nah, I'll wait for Duckbear to post it plus attractive photos of the headphones.

TOPIC
A 16-year old DIES after being ELECTROCUTED by HEADPHONES!!

POLL
Do you think the victim was hot?
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SunWuKung420
12/26/18 10:41:51 AM
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In Malaysia, zoolander...something something...magnum!
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ArvTheGreat
12/26/18 11:16:35 AM
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He cant wait long enough for his phone to charge
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