Cell phone electrocution

[Mike Easter]

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Mike Easter wrote:

I can't resolve the conflict between the report which says the plug
was NOT GFCI with the video which showed a GFCI plug, unless the
video report patched together parts which were really at the home
and in the bathroom with parts which were shot somewhere else for
purposes of illustration.

Clearly the phone and the phone charger and the extension cord in
the vid were not the same ones involved in the accident; but I
assumed that the bathroom and the lavatory and the plug over the
lavatory were 'real'.

I would think that a new GFCI was installed right after the incident,
and before a news crew was allowed into the room. Otherwise, some
moron would shove something into the outlet to demonstrate his or hr
stupidity.

Maybe that is the answer. The other possibility that I've considered is
that the entire Inside Edition report was a 'mock-up' as far as the
bathroom part was concerned. Besides having props for the phone and the
charger and the extension cord, they had props for EVERYTHING in the
bathroom -- that it wasn't the Coe bathroom at all. Not the Coe
bathtub, lavatory, or GFCI outlet. Vid took place somewhere else.

They wanted to show all kinds of 'simulations'; the phone falling into
the bathtub water, a model standing in the bathtub in a bathrobe, etc.

I asked Inside Edition by email to address the veracity of the bathroom
situation, no answer.

Logan Coe is a fireman. The business about the frayed extension cord
and the improper bathroom plug is not good home safety.


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Mike Easter