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Girl Dies By Electrocution While Tweeting In Bathtub

Two things here in what seems to be the world’s first Twittercide: don’t use your computer while taking a bath. And if for whatever reason you do, don’t be like this 17-year-old Romanian girl and risk your well-being to Tweet.

The Austrian times says that Maria Barbu was, in fact, in the tub while using Twitter when she likely reached to plug in her charger with a wet hand, electrocuting herself in the process. You smell that? Yeah, that’s a Darwin Award in the making. [Austrian Times]

Comments (AU Comments | US Comments)

  • Bob

    The Darwin Award ? This is a 17 year old girl you’re making fun of here, essentially a child. This article was a little insensitive and inappropriate IMO.

    • Dean

      Yeah come on guys, show a little respect. A teenager died, and you’re making a joke about it? That’s really really inappropriate.

      • Bob

        yeah, inappropriate like tweeting in the bath!

      • rgdhgdfgd

        Both of you, wake up. 17 is old enough to drive, its old enough not to use electronics in the bath.

    • Death Duck

      So Bob, what you’re saying is that if she was 12 months older (and a legal adult) we could make fun of her then? Laughing at someone’s death is ok once they reach an arbitrary age? Get off your high horse dude, it’s not like she was 5 years old and didn’t know any better.

    • Ben

      Dude, just because someone is a minor doesn’t mean that they’re retarded. I knew long before i was 17 that water conducts electricity. I could have told you that that was a stupid idea at 13, and probably before then.

  • Beavis

    Ah Romania … putting the TWIT back into Twitter!

  • matt

    OMG shes 17!! oh won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children!!! if she was 18, u’d all be fine with it, but oh, she’s a minor, its the saddest thing in the world! your as bad as all the ppl who sat there and laughed at all the chasers stunts until they took a jab at “children”.

    At least she didn’t kill anyone else by twittering while driving, its only a matter of time tho.

  • Broccoli

    You mean they have electricity in Romania? Ceaucescu would be gutted. Health and Safety in the UK would be all over it like a rash!
    Ever heard of gallows humour you lot?

  • john

    making fun of a girl who died? that’s pretty messed up. Adrian Covert.. your a dickhead.

  • Grif

    Why does everyone seem to think that the split second you’ve hurtled around the sun 18 times, you’re suddenly enlightened with all of the world and how it works?
    Natural selection, in my opinion, and if you say that she was careless and didn’t deserve to die, she could also have been careless while she was driving and killed a family, she could have been careless while on a work site and killed her colleagues, she could have been careless in many ways that hurt other people. at least this way she only offed herself.

  • Vlad

    And where did you get the info that she was “using Twitter”??? i am from Romania and and no such detail was given by the police. If you spend all your time tweeting do not believe , even just for a second, that everybody else does! you make me sick with your perverted, lonely, social networking-never meeting anybody life. today you receive the Darwin Award! Please do not tweet in the bathtub, please just iron a shirt, or toast some bread instead cuz tweeting in water is dangerous….

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