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Title: A man fell asleep with his iPhone charging in bed. It nearly electrocuted him.
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URL Source: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn ... 35h?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
Published: Apr 1, 2017
Author: Amy B Wang
Post Date: 2017-04-01 19:31:50 by BTP Holdings
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A man fell asleep with his iPhone charging in bed. It nearly electrocuted him. The Washington Post Amy B Wang 6 hrs ago Wiley Day's dog-tag chain got caught on the prongs of his plugged-in iPhone charger. He was treated at a hospital for serious burns. Next Slide 1/3 SLIDES © Courtesy of Wiley Day Wiley Day's dog-tag chain got caught on the prongs of his plugged-in iPhone charger. He was treated at a hospital for serious burns. When Wiley Day fell asleep on March 22, his iPhone was not far away. Like so many others, he had grown used to keeping his phone with him in bed, via an extension cord, as it charged overnight. The 32-year-old Huntsville, Ala., man would soon regret that habit. The next morning, Day woke up and rolled over. As he did so, a dog-tag necklace that he was wearing happened to catch on the exposed prongs of the charger head, which had come loose from the extension cord. The metal chain suddenly became a conductor for the electricity — and it traveled straight to Day's neck. The jolt he felt was "the eeriest, darkest, most demonic thing you could ever experience," Day told The Washington Post on Friday. "I don't have enough adjectives to describe it." Day said he was thrown from his bed to the ground. In a matter of moments, he stopped feeling anything. "Your body is numb at that point," he said. "I guess people would think it would be burning, but in my case I felt a whole lot of pressure around my neck." Day's eyesight started to fade, and he felt as if he were trying to see out of a peephole, with everything rendered in black and gray, he remembered. He became acutely aware of his heartbeat, which thundered in his ear. Day remembered shouting for his relatives, who slept on the other side of the home, until his adult niece came running into the room. Somehow, he said, he managed to yank the necklace and pull it off. "She said I kept yelling 'Jesus!' " Day said, referring to his niece. "When I came to and figured out what happened, I literally stood straight up, and I said, 'Oh my God, I think I just got electrocuted.' " His niece alerted him to a sign of what had happened: There was smoke coming out of the extension cord. Day's shirt was singed, with a small hole burned out. There were strips of skin and flesh missing where the metal chain had scorched his neck. And the pattern of the necklace was burned into parts of his hands where he had gripped the chain to try to tear it off. "Had I not pulled that necklace off when I did ..." Day said. "I just believe that God spared my life, and that's what happened." He rushed to see his doctor, who admitted him into a hospital immediately. Doctors determined that Day had suffered second- and third-degree burns to his hands and neck. Benjamin Fail, a Huntsville physician, told WAAY News that 100 volts of electricity can kill a person. He estimated that Day had been hit with about 110 volts. "He is lucky to be alive," Fail told the station. "Electrocution kills." Poster Comment: I used to sleep on the couch with my pistol. One day a guy I knew started to beat on the sliding glass door. I jumped up and dropped the pistol on the coffee table. He is lucky I didn't shoot his ass.
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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Last week was a story about a genius in England who had his iPhone and charger in the bathtub: he died.
I say he gets AT LEAST a $10M settlement, mebbe more ..
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