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It's a 9V battery. Relax.

tablespoon 6y ago
> It's a 9V battery. Relax. That's the kind of thinking that leads to stuff like this: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/jury-rules-radio-station-jennifer-strange-water-drinking/story?id=8970712 https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/jury-rules-radio-station-jennifer... > Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old mother of three, was among 18 people who entered the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" competition. They tried to drink as much water as they could without urinating in a bid to win a Nintendo Wii gaming console.... "It's just water. Relax." > "Can you get water poisoning and, like, die?" asked the female disc jockey. > "Not with water," a male disc jockey replied. "Your body is 98 percent water. Why can't you take in as much water as you want?" > "Maybe we should have researched this before," the female disc jockey added.... > Strange drank nearly two gallons of water in over three hours on Jan. 12, 2007. During the contest, she could be heard complaining about pain to disc jockeys at 107.9 "The End." > "Oh, it hurts," Strange said, while one male disc jockey remarked that she looked pregnant and another, a woman, said "That is so funny."... > Strange left after taking second place, winning a pair of concert tickets. She then called in sick at work and died in her bathroom just hours after the contest.
- temp0826 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia
- travisjungroth 6y ago
  >> It's a 9V battery. Relax. >That's the kind of thinking that leads to stuff like this It's also the kind of thinking that leads to getting killed by 9V batteries. https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html
- 99_00 6y ago
  Your example doesn't show why a 9v battery used in this way is dangerous.
  - tablespoon 6y ago
    > Your example doesn't show why a 9v battery used in this way is dangerous. So? It's part of a more general argument against assuming household items are safe when you're using them in highly unusual ways or far outside of normal parameters. But if you need a specific example of someone killing themselves with a 9V battery to get the message, a sibling comment actually linked to a Darwin award where someone did just that.
    - 99_00 6y ago
      No one is advocating intentionally sticking electrical probes into your body. So, again, it doesn't show that a 9 volt battery used in the way described by the article is dangerous.
      - tablespoon 6y ago
        > No one is advocating intentionally sticking electrical probes into your body. So, again, it doesn't show that a 9 volt battery used in the way described by the article is dangerous. You're asking the wrong question. If you don't want to be a dumbass, the question that should be asked isn't "has this been shown (to me) to be dangerous?" Answering no then proceeding is a good way to harm yourself out of ignorance. The right questions are along the lines of "has this been shown to be safe?", "if not, do I have actually have a full enough understanding to find out?", and "if I die doing this, am I in the running for a Darwin award?"
        99_00 6y ago
        I'm not asking a question.
      - coldtea 6y ago
        >it doesn't show that a 9 volt battery used in the way described by the article is dangerous. Then again, it doesn't have to show that - since the person in the article didn't come to use it in "that way" after serious study, research and precautions, but by assuming its harmeless in general and using it in an ad-hoc manner. They could quite easily, with the same assumption, which is what the parent warns against, use it in a dangerous way.
FartyMcFarter 6y ago
A 9V battery is enough to deliver a lethal current under the right conditions. Don't play with electricity unless you know what you are doing.
- 99_00 6y ago
  What are those conditions?
  - 0xFF0123 6y ago
    The point is that because something seems innocuous under normal use doesn't mean it is under other conditions. Since you want a specific example, from further down the comments: https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html
  - coldtea 6y ago
    That's the question that the author of TFA should have researched very well before using it: in order to avoid those conditions.

> It's a 9V battery. Relax. That's the kind of thinking that leads to stuff like this: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/jury-rules-radio-station-jennifer-strange-water-drinking/story?id=8970712 https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/jury-rules-radio-station-jennifer... > Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old mother of three, was among 18 people who entered the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" competition. They tried to drink as much water as they could without urinating in a bid to win a Nintendo Wii gaming console.... "It's just water. Relax." > "Can you get water poisoning and, like, die?" asked the female disc jockey. > "Not with water," a male disc jockey replied. "Your body is 98 percent water. Why can't you take in as much water as you want?" > "Maybe we should have researched this before," the female disc jockey added.... > Strange drank nearly two gallons of water in over three hours on Jan. 12, 2007. During the contest, she could be heard complaining about pain to disc jockeys at 107.9 "The End." > "Oh, it hurts," Strange said, while one male disc jockey remarked that she looked pregnant and another, a woman, said "That is so funny."... > Strange left after taking second place, winning a pair of concert tickets. She then called in sick at work and died in her bathroom just hours after the contest.

temp0826 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia
travisjungroth 6y ago
>> It's a 9V battery. Relax. >That's the kind of thinking that leads to stuff like this It's also the kind of thinking that leads to getting killed by 9V batteries. https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html
99_00 6y ago
Your example doesn't show why a 9v battery used in this way is dangerous.
- tablespoon 6y ago
  > Your example doesn't show why a 9v battery used in this way is dangerous. So? It's part of a more general argument against assuming household items are safe when you're using them in highly unusual ways or far outside of normal parameters. But if you need a specific example of someone killing themselves with a 9V battery to get the message, a sibling comment actually linked to a Darwin award where someone did just that.
  - 99_00 6y ago
    No one is advocating intentionally sticking electrical probes into your body. So, again, it doesn't show that a 9 volt battery used in the way described by the article is dangerous.
    - tablespoon 6y ago
      > No one is advocating intentionally sticking electrical probes into your body. So, again, it doesn't show that a 9 volt battery used in the way described by the article is dangerous. You're asking the wrong question. If you don't want to be a dumbass, the question that should be asked isn't "has this been shown (to me) to be dangerous?" Answering no then proceeding is a good way to harm yourself out of ignorance. The right questions are along the lines of "has this been shown to be safe?", "if not, do I have actually have a full enough understanding to find out?", and "if I die doing this, am I in the running for a Darwin award?"
      - 99_00 6y ago
        I'm not asking a question.
    - coldtea 6y ago
      >it doesn't show that a 9 volt battery used in the way described by the article is dangerous. Then again, it doesn't have to show that - since the person in the article didn't come to use it in "that way" after serious study, research and precautions, but by assuming its harmeless in general and using it in an ad-hoc manner. They could quite easily, with the same assumption, which is what the parent warns against, use it in a dangerous way.

FartyMcFarter 6y ago

A 9V battery is enough to deliver a lethal current under the right conditions. Don't play with electricity unless you know what you are doing.

99_00 6y ago
What are those conditions?
- 0xFF0123 6y ago
  The point is that because something seems innocuous under normal use doesn't mean it is under other conditions. Since you want a specific example, from further down the comments: https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html
- coldtea 6y ago
  That's the question that the author of TFA should have researched very well before using it: in order to avoid those conditions.