Classic toaster

[promapicide]

I'm wondering if a toaster and bath will actually work? Toaster and a shower? Dripping wet clothes? Utensils in my hand? Is there a good way to do this? What are the consequences of surviving?

 

[livingdeadgrl]

SO, I know nothing about electricity, but I actually researched for this method and this is what I found:
You have to lower YOUR body resistence and the water's electrical resistence so the shock will be more powerfull.
Your body's resistence will be lower if you stay submerged in the water for a long period.
For the water, you can add a lot of salt in it, so it will became more ionized.
This things would INCREASE the chance of you get a fatal electrocution. But nothing is garanteed, it is a very painful method (there is a table that ranks the mosts painful methods in some threads here), your internal organs basically will be fried, and time is very relative, could be fast, could not... There are people who literally get hit by a lighting and still survive.

I don't know if I explain it right, I'm talking about a subject that i barely know in english that is not my first language.
When I was searching I found a video on Youtube of a guy explaining if throw an hairdryer in the water like in movies would actually kill someone, so he does a serie of experiments with an human body resistence simulator that he did by himself, and the most effective was this situation (low body resistence + salt to simulate bath salts + soap). But after I saw threads here, I gave up this method. I don't recommend it, SN is more peaceful.

 

[DukeDestroyer]

The Mythbusters actually have an episode about this. They found that salt can increase the chances of it becoming letha.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Circuit breakers of today trip nearly instantly when an overload or ground fault is detected.

 

[Someone123]

Circuit breakers of today trip nearly instantly when an overload or ground fault is detected.

Interesting, but some people still get electrocuted. The question is whether it can be done reliably- I haven't learned enough to be confident in this method.

 

[sevenkarmas]

Interesting, but some people still get electrocuted. The question is whether it can be done reliably- I haven't learned enough to be confident in this method.

It is true that people still get electrocuted, but typically it's on a circuit that does not have a GFCI outlet or breaker. GFCI are code required for wet areas (kitchens/bathrooms), at least in the US.

 

[brokenpersi]

Its painfull. Please dont do that. Choose other method.

 

[bennydiazapine]

Could use a car battery and jumper leads, I've thought about it before.

 

[time2fly]

i think that @toasterbath will have the most relevant information for you......

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Interesting, but some people still get electrocuted. The question is whether it can be done reliably- I haven't learned enough to be confident in this method.

I wouldn't be confident in it in today's world with more safety measures placed in the electrical systems. Do you know of anyone who actually succeeded in electrocuting themselves by throwing a hairdryer in the bathtub?

 

[toasterbath]

Please don't actually do this. Yes there's all sorts of cases of people electrocuting themselves even from having their plugged in phone in the bath with them. But it is very brutal and not an effective CTB method.

 

[Fadeawaaaay]

David Foster Wallace made an attempt using this method when he was a teenager but was unsuccessful

 

[Someone123]

I wouldn't be confident in it in today's world with more safety measures placed in the electrical systems. Do you know of anyone who actually succeeded in electrocuting themselves by throwing a hairdryer in the bathtub?

I do know of a recent story of a teenage girl accidentally electrocuting herself in a bathtub by dropping her cell phone in while it was plugged in- very sad, because she was happy and wanted to live. Someone from this site said that they tried to duplicate this without success. I think there may have been other factor(s) that affected this, like a frayed extension cord, not sure.

 

[livingdeadgrl]

I do know of a recent story of a teenage girl accidentally electrocuting herself in a bathtub by dropping her cell phone in while it was plugged in- very sad, because she was happy and wanted to live. Someone from this site said that they tried to duplicate this without success. I think there may have been other factor(s) that affected this, like a frayed extension cord, not sure.

I readed that age and weight are things that contribute to facilitate the process of electrocution. The majority of news of accidents in bath I saw were with younger people, so I tend to believe in that theory.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I do know of a recent story of a teenage girl accidentally electrocuting herself in a bathtub by dropping her cell phone in while it was plugged in- very sad, because she was happy and wanted to live. Someone from this site said that they tried to duplicate this without success. I think there may have been other factor(s) that affected this, like a frayed extension cord, not sure.

I wonder where it was this happened? The breaker should have tripped nearly instantly whether the cord was frayed or not.

 

[Scythe]

First you need a toaster that's not one of the newer ones that have a prevention against this kind of stuff. Second, I think ideally you would need to be skinny. Third, maybe find an electric appliance with a higher voltage that can short circuit in water. For example, those chinese hotpot cooking stoves uses a lot more electricity than a toaster. IDK if they would short circuit in water, but they use significantly more electricity.

Not sure about this either, but dropping the toaster or whatever as close to your heart as possibke should also help.

 

[HermitLonerGuy]

Please don't actually do this. Yes there's all sorts of cases of people electrocuting themselves even from having their plugged in phone in the bath with them. But it is very brutal and not an effective CTB method.

Username checks out.

 

[Someone123]

I wonder where it was this happened? The breaker should have tripped nearly instantly whether the cord was frayed or not.

I searched on google and found several stories like this- following are the links- the first one is from New Mexico in 2017- this was in the USAToday. The second one happened in Russia in 2019. The third one happened in France in 2019. The fourth case is from England in 2016. Why this happened in these cases is not clear- I haven't dug into the details of these articles yet. But after searching several pages of google posts this first case is the only case I could find from the u.s. Other articles about the Russia case from 2019 said it was the 5th such case in Russia that year.

Texas girl electrocuted while using cellphone in bathtub

A 14-year-old girl from Lubbock, Texas, died Sunday morning after being electrocuted in a bathtub while using her cell phone, according to local reports.

www.usatoday.com

Teenage girl dies after dropping mobile phone into bath

‘Relaxing like this is like playing Russian roulette’

www.independent.co.uk

Girl, 13, suffers fatal electric shock in bathtub after phone falls into the water

‘This must be a warning to other teenagers, because they all have their phones implanted in their hands, so to speak.’

7news.com.au

4 Ways Cellphone Electrocution Can Happen to You

While rare, cellphone electrocution can and does occur. Here are 4 ways that cellphone electrocution can happen if you're not careful.

www.lifewire.com

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I searched on google and found several stories like this- following are the links- the first one is from New Mexico in 2017- this was in the USAToday. The second one happened in Russia in 2019. The third one happened in France in 2019. The fourth case is from England in 2016. Why this happened in these cases is not clear- I haven't dug into the details of these articles yet. But after searching several pages of google posts this first case is the only case I could find from the u.s. Other articles about the Russia case from 2019 said it was the 5th such case in Russia that year.

Texas girl electrocuted while using cellphone in bathtub

A 14-year-old girl from Lubbock, Texas, died Sunday morning after being electrocuted in a bathtub while using her cell phone, according to local reports.

www.usatoday.com

Teenage girl dies after dropping mobile phone into bath

‘Relaxing like this is like playing Russian roulette’

www.independent.co.uk

Girl, 13, suffers fatal electric shock in bathtub after phone falls into the water

‘This must be a warning to other teenagers, because they all have their phones implanted in their hands, so to speak.’

7news.com.au

4 Ways Cellphone Electrocution Can Happen to You

While rare, cellphone electrocution can and does occur. Here are 4 ways that cellphone electrocution can happen if you're not careful.

www.lifewire.com

I guess it can happen, but they all seem more like the exceptions rather than the rule. I don't know if I'd take a chance on it. You may just get harmed seriously and not killed. I think electrocution isn't the most pleasant way to go, anyway. But, if you don't care how the method is, whether it's painful, how one CTBs is up to that person.

 

[Someone123]

I guess it can happen, but they all seem more like the exceptions rather than the rule. I don't know if I'd take a chance on it. You may just get harmed seriously and not killed. I think electrocution isn't the most pleasant way to go, anyway. But, if you don't care how the method is, whether it's painful, how one CTBs is up to that person.

Yes it seems to be a very rarew exception, but when it does happen, what caused it to happen? If you could get it to work, it could be fast and certain- many people would trade a few minutes of intense pain for years of misery.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Yes it seems to be a very rarew exception, but when it does happen, what caused it to happen? If you could get it to work, it could be fast and certain- many people would trade a few minutes of intense pain for years of misery.

I'm just guessing, so don't hold me to this, but I'd imagine it would have something to do with oils from a person's skin in the water, along with maybe some soaps or shampoos or something, also in the water, that would increase the conductivity. Just a guess.

 

[Someone123]

I'm just guessing, so don't hold me to this, but I'd imagine it would have something to do with oils from a person's skin in the water, along with maybe some soaps or shampoos or something, also in the water, that would increase the conductivity. Just a guess.

I don't know anything abouty electricity, but I'm pretty suere that one of the articles about the american girl's case that a frayed extension cord was a factor in this.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I don't know anything abouty electricity, but I'm pretty suere that one of the articles about the american girl's case that a frayed extension cord was a factor in this.

Yeah, that was the girl from Vietnam. Still, something had to be going on with the water, too. Remember they have different electricity over there, too, as compared to in the US (higher voltage).

 

[Someone123]

Yeah, that was the girl from Vietnam. Still, something had to be going on with the water, too. Remember they have different electricity over there, too, as compared to in the US (higher voltage).

I just looked at a couple articles about the american case- in the case it seems that her cell phone didn't go nito the water but that she touched the frayed part of an extension cord while she was in the water in the bathtub.

 

[Worndown]

In the last 100 years they have made great advances to electrical safety. The new safety codes are mandated almost everywhere. Not a reliable method.

 

[Someone123]

In the last 100 years they have made great advances to electrical safety. The new safety codes are mandated almost everywhere. Not a reliable method.

And still about 200 people die from being electrocuted at home every year in the u.s.- with more knowledge there might be way to make it a reliable method.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I just looked at a couple articles about the american case- in the case it seems that her cell phone didn't go nito the water but that she touched the frayed part of an extension cord while she was in the water in the bathtub.

I think if that was the case, the water probably played a negligible role in her electrocution. It sounds like she was electrocuted no differently than if she would have stuck a fork into an electrical outlet or just touched any bare wire while being grounded.

 

[Worndown]

Accidents. It is difficult to plan one.
Appliances are built to be safe. You would need to make one unsafe first.