Chinese woman dies of electric shock - iPhone 5

[Buck]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...09864.html

[cbelt3]

Completely believable if she had the charger attached to an extension cord and dipped the cord into the tub. Otherwise ... 5VDC, 500ma ? It *might* kill you if it was attached to electrodes internally ON your heart. Otherwise, nope.

But hey... it says "Apple" so harvest da clicks !

[davester]

I'd say this is highly questionable. What's the charger capacity on an iPhone, 5v at about 1 amp?

[SteveG]

With 365 million iPhones sold since 2007, this one iPhone incident is truly a reason to panic...if it is true.

[norse]

A Chinese knock-off?

[GGD]

norse wrote:
A Chinese knock-off?

My first thought too, I wonder if the charger and Lightning cable are the original Apple products.

[davester]

GGD wrote:
[quote=norse]
A Chinese knock-off?

My first thought too, I wonder if the charger and Lightning cable are the original Apple products.
Perhaps she was using a lightning rod instead of a lightning cable.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Home/apartment not built to code and knockoff charger. Charger plugged into non-GFIC, 120 V on iPhone case ground. She touches computer plugged into similar circuit, but on opposite phase on other side of room. 240 V across the hands can easily kill. Her family should look at the building contactor and city inspectors instead of Apple.

[OWC Larry]

Apple smear job

[N-OS X-tasy!]

davester wrote:
Perhaps she was using a lightning rod instead of a lightning cable.

An easy mistake to make!