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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Dragon on September 08, 2010, 03:10:09 PM
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DOVER, N.H. —
A New Hampshire high school student shocked so severely in shop class that his heart stopped beating is suing his teacher, the school district and the city of Dover.
Kyle Dubois and his parents claim teacher Thomas Kelley did not warn Dubois and other students of the dangers of the electrical demonstration cords in their electrical trades class.
On March 11, Dubois attached an electrical clamp to one nipple while another student attached another clamp to the other. A third student plugged in the cord.
Dubois was critically injured.
The New Hampshire Union Leader says Dubois' suit contends he suffered permanent brain damage.
Kelley resigned from his teaching position about a month after the incident. He declined to comment on the lawsuit.
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The kids a moron...so he sues the school. World would be better off if he fried himself. One less idiot in the gene pool.
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I'd say the brain damage occurred before the shock.
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So the kids stupidity cost the teacher his job? What a load.
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LMAO, I wonder what ambulance chaser was dumb enough to take that case. I'd be counter suing the idiot kid's parents...they shouldn't have let that one out of the house without a helmet and someone to watch him.
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I'd say the brain damage occurred before the shock.
:aok
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It is kids like this who I think should've been introduced to corporal punishment and labor early in life, to set down a set of responibilities, morals, principles and some frickin dang sense.
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DOVER, N.H. —
A New Hampshire high school student shocked so severely in shop class that his heart stopped beating is suing his teacher, the school district and the city of Dover.
Kyle Dubois and his parents claim teacher Thomas Kelley did not warn Dubois and other students of the dangers of the electrical demonstration cords in their electrical trades class.
On March 11, Dubois attached an electrical clamp to one nipple while another student attached another clamp to the other. A third student plugged in the cord.
Dubois was critically injured.
The New Hampshire Union Leader says Dubois' suit contends he suffered permanent brain damage.
Kelley resigned from his teaching position about a month after the incident. He declined to comment on the lawsuit.
he's lucky to be alive. they sent voltage directly across his heart.
now, had they hooked both to the same nipple............
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Read that & thought to myself...
...future Marine. :neener:
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You have to remember that anyone can sue anyone else for just about anything. It doesn't mean that they are going to win...
With that being said, the sad part of all this is that the school district will probably settle 'out of court' for dozens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars...
That's the problem with the system... no body ever stands up to defend themselves anymore.. they simply want to "throw out" some money to make it just go away. Because of this, lawyers are quick to jump on cases which really have no business existing, because they know they'll make a decent sum off of the whole deal. This, in turn, makes people more inclined to sue and everything just dominoes from there.
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:rofl :rofl
Only in America :rolleyes:
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Hopefully the shock made it impossible for the kid to reproduce. I think we can all agree that this family tree should not grow any further.
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WTF!!!!
What a dumb arse kid.
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My only questions...
How old is the kid? Why DIDN'T the teacher tell the class of the danger? Why were hazardous items left out for children to play with? Where was the teacher when this was going on?
They are going to pay big time. You people who want to blame a child for the gross negligence of the school and teacher don't know what you're talking about. It was probably the teacher's idea.
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My only questions...
How old is the kid? Why DIDN'T the teacher tell the class of the danger? Why were hazardous items left out for children to play with? Where was the teacher when this was going on?
They are going to pay big time. You people who want to blame a child for the gross negligence of the school and teacher don't know what you're talking about. It was probably the teacher's idea.
I hope you're trolling.
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My only questions...
How old is the kid? Why DIDN'T the teacher tell the class of the danger? Why were hazardous items left out for children to play with? Where was the teacher when this was going on?
They are going to pay big time. You people who want to blame a child for the gross negligence of the school and teacher don't know what you're talking about. It was probably the teacher's idea.
uum....if you're in high school, and don't know electricity is dangerous, whelp...then someone along the line failed miserably.
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Strait from the High school files of Boxboy!!
So im in electronics class(10th grade) and get paired up with a dude in 11th grade.... his dad is an electrician! :rock
funny guy says "hey ya dare me to stick these two wires into the socket and touch um to gether?" i say go ahead fool i wanna watch this! :x
well smart guy slips one in (grinning) then slips the other in and says "you ready for this?" of course im like "hell ya fool do it"
Big old blinding flash of light a sound like an m-80 went off in both my ears ...... i see him fall off his stool and then hear him yell "Boxboy what the heck are you doing" mean while im laughing so hard im crying ........ and i couldnt stop for a good 5 minutes! scared the poop outta 3/4ths the class as the only others were at the bench behind me watching the fool do it too!
we get taken out in the hall and scolded and told we had two choices, write 1000 sentences or have our parents write a note......... tough guy wrote all his out because he couldnt face his dad! Me i told mom and dad the story and they laughed and wrote me a note!
mind you these were really small guage wires for putting into the radio shack plug and play circut boards! Teacher tells him he is lucky to be alive! later in the class we find the two wires fused or welded to gether on the floor!
LOL gawd dang that was some funny chits!
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Darwin at work! :aok
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Johnny Knoxville did it, so can I!!!!!!!!! :x
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Just think about this.
These are the ones that will be taking care of us as we reach the age where we can no longer control our bodily functions or are able to care for ourselves.
:O
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These are the same people who wack themselves in their testiculars.
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Idiots... the black wire is always the ground... oh wait... this isn't disarming a bomb?
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uum....if you're in high school, and don't know electricity is dangerous, whelp...then someone along the line failed miserably.
Which is exactly why the school needs to be sued.
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Which is exactly why the school needs to be sued.
I'm so sure this was your original thinking. No, I'd doubt it.
It isn't particularly the school's fault. I haven't learned about Electricity at all except in 8th and 9th grade. I was taught AT THE AGE OF 3, that electricity was dangerous and could kill you by my parents, who evidently loved me more than this kid's folks who want to sue the school for their own child's incompetence.
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I'm so sure this was your original thinking. No, I'd doubt it.
It isn't particularly the school's fault. I haven't learned about Electricity at all except in 8th and 9th grade. I was taught AT THE AGE OF 3, that electricity was dangerous and could kill you by my parents, who evidently loved me more than this kid's folks who want to sue the school for their own child's incompetence.
Let's say this kid's parents DID teach him about the dangers of electricity right along with the dangers of hot stoves and traffic...
When I was in eighth grade my science teacher had a crank dynamo. It had screw-on terminals about two inches apart. He asked for two volunteers: One to turn the crank and another to put his thumb and forefinger on the terminals. After the "experiment" when the guy touching the terminals got a healthy but non-lethal "poke" we all laughed. Now... My buddy John... After class... He grabbed ahold of the terminals.... One with his left hand and one with his right... He turns to me and says "go ahead and crank it. I want to see what it feels like." Luckily, the teacher was still in the room and heard him and happened to look at the right moment, just before I turned the crank (and I was really going to turn it hard too). "NNNOOOOO!!!!"
Now... If I had turned the crank and killed my buddy... Whose fault would that have been?
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No one should take any responsibility for their own actions.
Fixed
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Fixed
I guess... If you really don't feel the school or teacher should be held accountable...
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It's very dependent on the situation, but if I don't know how something works, I don't mess with it. If I see someone juggle chainsaws, it doesn't mean I think I can do it, and that it's the jugglers fault when I cut my arm off.
Buck up and take responsibility for the stupid S%* you do. They are teachers, not babysitters.
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Yes, they are babysitters. They not only asked for the job but made it mandatory for the kid to be there.
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Let's say this kid's parents DID teach him about the dangers of electricity right along with the dangers of hot stoves and traffic...
When I was in eighth grade my science teacher had a crank dynamo. It had screw-on terminals about two inches apart. He asked for two volunteers: One to turn the crank and another to put his thumb and forefinger on the terminals. After the "experiment" when the guy touching the terminals got a healthy but non-lethal "poke" we all laughed. Now... My buddy John... After class... He grabbed ahold of the terminals.... One with his left hand and one with his right... He turns to me and says "go ahead and crank it. I want to see what it feels like." Luckily, the teacher was still in the room and heard him and happened to look at the right moment, just before I turned the crank (and I was really going to turn it hard too). "NNNOOOOO!!!!"
Now... If I had turned the crank and killed my buddy... Whose fault would that have been?
if either of you had been taught the dangers of electricity, then it would have been yours for turning the crank.
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if either of you had been taught the dangers of electricity, then it would have been yours for turning the crank.
Im 16, and i don't understand how it could kill somebody if it just zapped him a bit.
Can someone explain?
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Im 16, and i don't understand how it could kill somebody if it just zapped him a bit.
Can someone explain?
Here is the important question, would you have messed with it.
But to answer your original question, admittedly electricity has always been a little confusing for me, but it's a difference between the paths the electricity travels. In the first example, the current would run between his thumb and forefinger, a short distance. In the second example, it would have to run from one arm to the other, crossing right through the chest and heart. However, I'm not sure the amount of current you could muster from a hand crank would be enough to do that much damage. Now sticking wires into a 110 outlet, you don't have to be an electrician to know that's a bad idea.
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Here is the important question, would you have messed with it.
Of course would have. Especially after his teacher made light of it.
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Of course would have. Especially after his teacher made light of it.
Damn that teacher for trying to make class a little more entertaining, he should focus on boring slides, lectures, and textbook reading. What was his lecture on that day... electricity maybe, were you paying attention or drinking the blue liquid from the cabinet because he used that in an experiment once?
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dont drink the bromothymol blue.
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Im 16, and i don't understand how it could kill somebody if it just zapped him a bit.
Can someone explain?
read this. http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/chpt_3/4.html
in the instance of putting one lead on one nipple, and the other on the other nipple......the current would've directly crossed his heart....and killed him.
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However, I'm not sure the amount of current you could muster from a hand crank would be enough to do that much damage. Now sticking wires into a 110 outlet, you don't have to be an electrician to know that's a bad idea.
It really does not take much electricity to mess with the electrical rhythms of a human heart. The biggest factor there is the fact that he had the electricity running straight through his heart. Most people can stick their fingers in a 110 socket all day long and never do anything but get a little tingle in there hand but grab a hold of one wire with one hand and the other wire with the other hand and have a big enough wire to get the right amperage and you could have a nice nap afterward (maybe permanent).
Either way I am pretty certain that most times in any shop class the students are informed to not mess with anything that was not explained to them it's proper operation. I am real certain that this teacher did not tell him that the proper location to connect the leads was on the students nipples. No one can watch all 30 or so students every second of any class period and once in High School a student should have enough mental capacity and respect to be able to follow the rules without having a teacher breathing down his neck. As far as I am concerned by High School age has been reached there is no such thing as teacher/parent fault but stupid student not thinking. It is at this time that the students should be somewhat prepared for the real world and not be micro-managed the way they are in elementary schools.
I say give the dumb bellybutton a bigger charge and thin out the gene pool a little further. What scares me the most is idiots like this are going to come around my house looking for my daughter and I may have to physically remove the little bastage from my premises.
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The kids a moron...so he sues the school. World would be better off if he fried himself. One less idiot in the gene pool.
:aok
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I am an Australian teenager.
Therefore if there is something incredibly stupid or uncomprehendable as anything other than incredibly dangerous, I will do it for a laugh.
But then there is just sheer utter moronic stupidity, the guy should have died. Less paperwork and trouble for the "Ambo's" and the administration,its his own bloody fault. The school is not accountable as he knew full well that what he was doing was dangerous and painful, If he didnt know this what the hell is he doing in a High School Science Class. And as the school would have taken any learning difficulties and so forth down on record he would not have been placed there if such a state of affairs existed.
So, who is to blame, the Student and his Parents for failing in common knowlegde that most AMERICAN five year olds know ( I am taking a Jab at your education system).
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So... The school, which the kid is forced to attend, has no responsibility to the safety of, and more more importantly, since it's a SCHOOL, has no responsibility to teach the students about electricity...
The school is going to lose and lose big.
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Where I come from we have a word for this sort of thing...
RETARD
That school is in no way, shape, or form responsible for what that IDIOT decided to do to himself.
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Plus.. The fact that the teacher had "resigned" shows that the school knows what's up and is already attempting damage control. The real losers in this will ultimately be the community since government employees like public school teachers and administrators do not bare personal financial responsability for their actions.
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The fact that the teacher resigned may explain why the kid was able to do what he did. Was the teacher out of the room? If so, then yes the school system has some responsibility.
If the teacher was in the room and was working with other students and didn't see what the idiot was doing, then the system is not at fault. If he was was not in the wrong and was asked to resign for damage control, then he should sue the system for loss of livelihood.
The article didn't mention anything about going after the other student, the one who plugged in his friend. Why not?
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Sluggish,
It's thinking like that and nobody feeling like they are personally accountable that is a MAJOR problem in the educational system in this country. The kids were doing something they should have had enough common sense not to do and they're blaming the school? Give me a break. I rail against school systems trying to parent my kid. I've done it for 17 years and feel like I've done a pretty good job. I do NOT need a government institution to tell me how to raise him and make him sign contracts for what he can and can not do outside of school. If he screws up he has to face not only the administration but ME. I've been lucky. Got a good kid with a solid head on his shoulders and I can guarantee that he wouldn't have been involved in such a bone headed stunt. If parents took responsibility for their kids actions across this country I doubt we'd have to deal with metal detectors at the front doors and roving police patrols in the halls.
I'm not a big fan of 'when I was growing up' stories but I do remember facing my parents when somebody (usually another parent) called them and reported that I was doing something stupid. Most times I wasn't but I was a bit of a trouble magnet back then. When I WAS screwing up I got my butt handed to me big time.
Put yourself in the teachers place. Could you micromanage the activities of a room full of teenage boys? I know I couldn't. I've had a house full of teenagers all summer long and there were several instances where they tried to skirt around my rules with the 'well you didn't say we couldn't' excuse and they wound up getting their butts handed to them and a healthy dose of pool cleaning and / or yard work. And you know what? Nobody got hurt or in any trouble with anybody besides me. But it was physically impossible to be on top of them all of the time. It's sad that I have to be a father figure to a bunch of kids whose parents ignored them growing up. And I hope that being around me for a rather short period of time gave them some sense of personal accountability.
The stupidity of those kids caused the problem not the 'negligence' of the school or the teacher. Now his life is probably ruined because nobody knocked their little heads together when they were younger and taught them that just because they thought they could get away with something didn't mean it was a good idea.
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The fact that the teacher resigned may explain why the kid was able to do what he did. Was the teacher out of the room? If so, then yes the school system has some responsibility.
If the teacher was in the room and was working with other students and didn't see what the idiot was doing, then the system is not at fault. If he was was not in the wrong and was asked to resign for damage control, then he should sue the system for loss of livelihood.
The article didn't mention anything about going after the other student, the one who plugged in his friend. Why not?
OR THE parents who managed to let their precious son go through 16 years of life without at least ingraining the fact that electricity WILL kill you.
when i was in high school, i had no clue how electricity worked. i did however, know that it could, and more than likely would kill me if i screwed with it.
it wasn't school teachers that taught that to me. was my grandparents/.
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Read that & thought to myself...
...future Marine. :neener:
You owe me a new monitor........
Hooah !
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I remember when I was young, maybe 8th grade or so, my buddy and I were building something and had an electro-magnet designed for less than 110v. We also had in our possession an old lamp cord and an outlet.
I was holding the magnet when my buddy plugged it in; the magnet hummed extremely loudly and tore out of my hand and slammed into the bed frame causing a noise that brought the whole house running to see wtf just happened.
I learned about electricity that day. It's amazing how much a person can learn when they can no longer sit down without causing more pain.
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The parents should be sued for sending such a dumb kid to school.
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Sluggish,
It's thinking like that and nobody feeling like they are personally accountable that is a MAJOR problem in the educational system in this country. The kids were doing something they should have had enough common sense not to do and they're blaming the school? Give me a break. I rail against school systems trying to parent my kid. I've done it for 17 years and feel like I've done a pretty good job. I do NOT need a government institution to tell me how to raise him and make him sign contracts for what he can and can not do outside of school. If he screws up he has to face not only the administration but ME. I've been lucky. Got a good kid with a solid head on his shoulders and I can guarantee that he wouldn't have been involved in such a bone headed stunt. If parents took responsibility for their kids actions across this country I doubt we'd have to deal with metal detectors at the front doors and roving police patrols in the halls.
But you're making my pont for me... They DO want control of your kid. They DO want him to sign contracts for activities outside of school. They DO want to marginalize your influence on your child. BUT.... They claim no responsibility to your child when he is under their direct supervision...
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Considering that both my parents worked in the schools and my sister is a high school teacher I can assure you that the schools do NOT want to have to do those things. They are forced to by parents who do not hold their kids accountable for aberrant behavior.
All of that aside the bottom line is that the kids did something STUPID and now their parents want to point fingers and get a big pay day instead of smacking Junior upside the head and making him and his idiot friend earn the money to pay the hospital bill.
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Considering that both my parents worked in the schools and my sister is a high school teacher I can assure you that the schools do NOT want to have to do those things. They are forced to by parents who do not hold their kids accountable for aberrant behavior.
All of that aside the bottom line is that the kids did something STUPID and now their parents want to point fingers and get a big pay day instead of smacking Junior upside the head and making him and his idiot friend earn the money to pay the hospital bill.
Since your parents and sister are part of the system I would expect you to defend it. Remember, it was the Dept of Ed Secretary that said we need twelve hour school days - thirteen months a year no less. BUT... They CANNOT be held accountable for what happens to the kids while they are there...
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Considering that both my parents worked in the schools and my sister is a high school teacher I can assure you that the schools do NOT want to have to do those things. They are forced to by parents who do not hold their kids accountable for aberrant behavior.
All of that aside the bottom line is that the kids did something STUPID and now their parents want to point fingers and get a big pay day instead of smacking Junior upside the head and making him and his idiot friend earn the money to pay the hospital bill.
Amen.
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no one should be suing anyone over something as dumb as this. learn, and be glad their son is alive.
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Since your parents and sister are part of the system I would expect you to defend it. Remember, it was the Dept of Ed Secretary that said we need twelve hour school days - thirteen months a year no less. BUT... They CANNOT be held accountable for what happens to the kids while they are there...
Actually my family and I disagree vehemently about our 'educational system' however we do agree that, due to a large portion of 'parents' abdicating the raising of their kids to schools, teachers, and day care centers, schools have had to become more intrusive in the home.
However you and I are not going to agree on this subject and it's not worth a purse fight so I'll just agree to disagree :cheers:
CAP Indeed
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no one should be suing anyone over something as dumb as this. learn, and be glad their son is alive.
Cap1 u get 2million fighter points for that :aok
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And Just think... these people are our Future....
I think we are in a world of shXt
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Electricity works like this... Please note, I learned this in FIFTH GRADE... And some of the basics even before that from my parents... I also learned it in 8th, 9th and 11th grade.
Electricity is divided into two categories.
AC-Alternating Current, such as you would find in a outlet.
DC- Direct Current, such as you would find in a battery.
Alternating current is a current in which the direction of electrons is moving unpredictably. Ex: Forward, backward, up, down, etc, etc.
Direct Current is a current which is steady, continuous and goes in "one direction."
http://www.pa.msu.edu/sciencet/ask_st/010892.html (http://www.pa.msu.edu/sciencet/ask_st/010892.html)
The average resistance of the human body is nowhere near enough to keep the person alive when severely shocked.
Basically how electricity works in the idiot kids' case is through a circuit. You know all about + and - on a battery? Basically touching two different wires completes the circuit, the heart is in between the arms and is directly hit. This causes arrhythmia and palpatations. Unable to effectively transfer blood throughout the body, the heart beats becomes ineffective, a person's body begins to shut down and they die. There you go... summed up in a paragraph.
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man...what ever happened to common sense?....
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It isn't exactly common any more nor is 'common' courtesy..
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he should have google searched how electricity works on his iphone before acting like an idiot, his parents are the true morons though for wanting to sue the school over this.... guess it's clear to see where jr gets his bright ideas from. :rolleyes:
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DOVER, N.H. —
A New Hampshire high school student shocked so severely in shop class that his heart stopped beating is suing his teacher, the school district and the city of Dover.
Kyle Dubois and his parents claim teacher Thomas Kelley did not warn Dubois and other students of the dangers of the electrical demonstration cords in their electrical trades class.
On March 11, Dubois attached an electrical clamp to one nipple while another student attached another clamp to the other. A third student plugged in the cord.
Dubois was critically injured.
The New Hampshire Union Leader says Dubois' suit contends he suffered permanent brain damage.
Kelley resigned from his teaching position about a month after the incident. He declined to comment on the lawsuit.
:rofl
How does he prove that he didn't have brain damage before he commited this most arsanine act? Won't stand up for a day in court with a judge worth their beans. The only thing not his fault wasn't even mentioned by the obviously mentaly challenged student and parents, and aparently their lawyer(s): lack of supervision. I hope they get laughed out of town.
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it takes less the 1 amp to kill a person or stop there heart! Amps kill not voltage!
sluggish i dont know how you in any state of mind can find the teacher or school responible!
if the wanna sue some one sue "love muffin" or Johny Knoxville and friends for not teaching the kid that it was a bad idea....... ewww wait ...... sue them selves because they let the dumb kid rent it or watch it then think his already brain damaged self should try pluggin it to the wall out let and zapping him self!
the kid was obviously in the wrong class like sluggish is in this debate!
blame the parents because obiously the kid was starved for attention and reached out in class!
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Another example of what keeping stupid and incompetent people in the gene pool has done right here
How old is the kid? Why DIDN'T the teacher tell the class of the danger? Why were hazardous items left out for children to play with? Where was the teacher when this was going on?
They are going to pay big time. You people who want to blame a child for the gross negligence of the school and teacher don't know what you're talking about. It was probably the teacher's idea.
First off, the chances that the teacher didn't warn the kids are in the range of 1%, since its their job if they don't. Hazardous items were left out because its a SHOP CLASS, if the idiot student couldn't understand that a shop class will have hazardous items in the general area, he really shouldn't be in highschool. And since it WAS a highschool, and the students will legally be adults in 4 years AT THE MOST, it was probably assumed that the kids can keep from harming themselves for the few minutes that the teacher had to leave the room, or direct his attention in another direction.
And for you to say it was probably the teachers idea is just plain stupid. I honestly feel we need to bring back the paddle, or give them jail time, even if they are simply noncompliant. They don't respect athority, and that we are trying to spend our way out of debt is a testemant to the growing stupidity. It seems the general public is getting dumber and dumber as more and more idiots survive to reproduce instead of dying as they would have had they been born lemurs. I have ABSOLUTELY no doubt that kids would be dumb enough to do something like this. It seems to be getting to the point where we need to change the rules for kids who have previous offences to "guilty until proven innocent".
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Now... If I had turned the crank and killed my buddy... Whose fault would that have been?
Yours. Because you were dumb and DIDN'T ASK PERMISSION before doing something stupid. I feel sorry for any offspring you have and anyone in the future sued by you because your incompetent offspring did something stupid that caused them harm (because you failed to teach them to take responsibility).
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Lol, I can still remember my elementary school's motto. "I am responsible for my own behavior."
In 5th grade they did away with that one and replaced it with "Knowledge is power." Now 90% of the kids who are coming in to the highschool are both stupid AND irresponsible... Imagine that.
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Well 8th grade shop class. The work machines came with a sign DANGER CAN CUT HAND OFF! :uhoh Maybe this kid should've came with a sign for teacher. DANGER THIS KID IS WICKED SMART!
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Yours. Because you were dumb and DIDN'T ASK PERMISSION before doing something stupid. I feel sorry for any offspring you have and anyone in the future sued by you because your incompetent offspring did something stupid that caused them harm (because you failed to teach them to take responsibility).
He didn't know. That doesn't mean he is dumb, or irresponsible. As far as he knew, his buddy just wanted to feel what it was like to get zapped by the little machine.
Its WAY out of line for someone to attack someone elses kids. You dont know his kids (If he has any) Therefore you have no right to call his kids stupid.
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I was making a point, mostly about asking permission, since its good manners and is generally a good idea when it concerns something you are ignorant about.
You're right, I was out of line there. I know its not an excuse, but I just can't stand that blatant refusal to accept responsibity for one's actions, or shoving blame at someone nearby even if it really isn't anyones fault; "its his fault. He should have stopped me before I stabbed myself with his knife". We've become so sue-happy its not even funny. Some of the crap that passes in the courts are just rediculous; I mean we're hearing things like "well, I didn't KNOW drinking engine coolant could hurt me, so its their fault since I wasn't warned".
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He had no reason to believe the little hand-crank could hurt him.
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Aside from the fact he was using his hands to complete an electrical circuit, which could've given him heart problems or killed him.
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Aside from the fact he was using his hands to complete an electrical circuit, which could've given him heart problems or killed him.
He had watched someone else get shocked without any harm, why would he have to believe that it could hurt him?
I could have done the same thing.
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Because with any little bit of basic info, the kid would've realized that the circuit was NOT complete when a finger was added, but when held with both hands the circuit was complete and electricity was allowed to pass through the body. I learned about it in the 5th grade and before that frommy parents. Now I'm not saying this kid is an idiot, but what I am saying hide all the knives, forks and skewers, cover up all outlets in the house with child-proof caps, and hide all electrical devices in the bathroom when not in use, and keep them in a... Wait, what am I saying?
The world would be better off if he fried himself. One less idiot in the gene pool.
Duh! :banana:
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They never taught us about electricity in school. I took shop, they never taught us anything.
My parents never taught me anything about it, other than its bad.
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So?
1) he shouldn't have assumed it was ok to even TOUCH without permission. Its polite, and it can help keep you safe.
2) its a good rule to assume that anything electrical or dealing with electricty can be dangerous if not nessicarily deadly. Even the ammount of electricity coming from your USB port is enough to kill you.
And he watched someone use his HAND to complete a circut, not his entire body. The electricity wasn't making a circut through his body cavity, it went from one finger to the other without detouring to his heart.
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They never taught us about electricity in school. I took shop, they never taught us anything.
My parents never taught me anything about it, other than its bad.
Which is why you should assume electricity is dangerous unless you KNOW what you are doing, and can say that the chance of harm is minimal from an expierenced perspective.
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And he watched someone use his HAND to complete a circut, not his entire body. The electricity wasn't making a circut through his body cavity, it went from one finger to the other without detouring to his heart.
Why should he assume that that could be dangerous? He probably didnt make that connection.
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I say that the kid should have to sit on a metal chair and have a live power line shoved up his butt.
Problem Solved
-Penguin
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Anyone ever read/seen "The Green Mile?" You always soak the sponge in the brine... :noid
Darn you Percy!!! :bolt:
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Anyone ever read/seen "The Green Mile?" You always soak the sponge in the brine... :noid
Darn you Percy!!! :bolt:
I'd revise that book to have Percy spend a couple of days in 'Wild Bills' cell with hands and feet duct taped together :D
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As I said, its a good rule to assume electricity, regardless of the ammount, is dangerous. Mostly because it usually is. I'm going to teach my kids to assume electricity and unknown substances and compounds are potentialy dangerous untill proven otherwise, because ITS A GOOD RULE TO HAVE, IT KEEPS YOU SAFE!!!!
Tupac, just because you don't know about something doesn't mean you're not being dumb by playing with it. In fact, thats part of what makes your actions dumb in the first place.
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ok....suppose that the parents didn't teach the kid that electricity is dangerous....nor did the teacher.
surly the kid must've seen SOME movie where someone got killed by/with electricity by that point in his life.
there is NO excuse to not know that electricity is DANGEROUS by that age. you don't have to know or understand how it works.....just that it is dangerous, and can(most likely will) KILL you.