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Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001
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I was killing some time reading about Darwin awards, when I found this: Quote: (January 2008, Pennsylvania) A 23-year-old man with various body piercings decided to have some fun at work. He wondered, "What it would feel like to connect the electronic control tester to my chest piercings?" Several coworkers tried to convince him that it was a bad idea to wire himself up to the electronic device, but he ignored their pleas. He proceeded to connect two alligator clips to his metal nipple piercings, one on each side, and hit the test button... His coworkers were still trying to revive him with CPR and rescue breathing when police and rescue personnel arrived. They were not successful. I also remember reading about someone who killed himself with a 9 V battery. He had used needles, which preforated his skin, creating a galvanic pair in his veins. What he didn't know was that 9 V is really a killing voltage, if you don't have the protecting skin layer. Obviously piercing cuts straight through the insulation. Scary! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest. |
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Epsi
Member #5,731
April 2005
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Well you got me intrigued, so I googled this: http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html Looks like a real case ___________________________________ piccolo: "soon all new 2d alegro games will be better. after i finsh my MMRPG. my game will serve as a code reference. so you can understand and grab code from." |
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Ariesnl
Member #2,902
November 2002
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It's the CURRENT that kills. If you pierce the skin you get a resistance of almost 0 that with a voltage of 9 volts will induce a BIG current. Perhaps one day we will find that the human factor is more complicated than space and time (Jean luc Picard) |
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Trent Gamblin
Member #261
April 2000
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I guess when I used to stick my tongue on 9 volt batteries as a kid it was a big idea
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gnolam
Member #2,030
March 2002
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Assuming you mean "bad", only because it caused temporary pain. The current will still go pole to pole via the path of least resistance, which in that case is about 1 cm across (the surface of) your tongue. It won't suddenly make a detour through your heart. -- |
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Tobias Dammers
Member #2,604
August 2002
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gnolam said: which in that case is about 1 cm across (the surface of) your tongue Most of that current probably goes through the saliva anyway. Putting the poles into your blood vessels has a good chance of producing a least-resistance path along vital organs, say, the heart. --- |
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