Jun 22 2009Girl Electrocutes Herself Tweeting In Bathtub

Following in the trend of tweeting from the bathroom, a 17-year old Romanian girl died while apparently trying to Twitter from the tub (this new loofah feels great!).
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.
As much fun as I do want to make of Maria, you really can't blame her. Women understanding electricity? BWHAHAH AHAH HA HA! God, I needed that.
Girl Dies by Electrocution While Twitting in Bathtub, Apocalypse Draws Nearer [gizmodo]
Thanks to Julian, who once showered with a toaster but the bread got all soggy.
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Reader Comments
1. Pinkerton - June 22, 2009 3:33 PM
Oh no!
2. jerome - June 22, 2009 3:33 PM
first!
3. jerome - June 22, 2009 3:34 PM
or second
4. zap - June 22, 2009 3:35 PM
Twitter kills. Ban it!
5. ginORMAGANTUAN - June 22, 2009 3:37 PM
I SAY DARWEEEENNNNNNN AWWWWWWWWWWWWUUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDD DUUUUUUHHHHH BBBBEEEEEEOOOOOTTTTTCCCCHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
6. naas - June 22, 2009 3:37 PM
It was bound to happen sooner or later. I wonder how the makers of twizzlers licorice feel about how this all sounds
7. actual size - June 22, 2009 3:38 PM
thats nothing i once got struck by lightning trying to find a signal to be first on a geekologie post. i didn't get first but that old lady nurse was FIIINE
8. ginORMAGANTUAN - June 22, 2009 3:39 PM
dayum nikka!!!!!!!! elekstakutes them beeetchezzzz!!!!!!!!! man i feel bad an all, but daaaayyyuuummm! that one dum azz h0 rightz cheuh!
9. STOMPY - June 22, 2009 3:41 PM
Shocking news...
10. khazar - June 22, 2009 3:42 PM
She wasn't tweeting, she was talking to her friends on yahoo mesenger on her new laptop. People in romania don't tweet because we pretty much all agree that tweeting is for people with no lives.
11. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 22, 2009 3:47 PM
@10
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/145328
Now shut up.
Should've added some carrots and potatoes in with her. It would've been a big bowl of dumb bitch soup.
12. Pinkerton - June 22, 2009 3:48 PM
@7: Funniest person to post today!!
13. King Cam - June 22, 2009 3:49 PM
"Women understanding electricity? BWHAHAH AHAH AH AH!"
GW, you're my favorite person.
14. ginORMAGANTUAN - June 22, 2009 3:56 PM
I know riights! doing the twatin' thang in rowmaineia!?!?!?! sheeeeeeeeeeettttt!!!!!
15. G-man - June 22, 2009 4:02 PM
One more proof of Natural selection (evolution)
16. Tennist0 - June 22, 2009 4:03 PM
yet again...another death, another monotone reaction
17. Tennist0 - June 22, 2009 4:05 PM
@15- D*mn you Darwin!...well, on thge other hand, lets make more dangers and the stupid people will be exctinct! Then in 100 years we will clone one to piss on!
18. Sal - June 22, 2009 4:08 PM
Did the human race get a little stupid, did we forget that water + electricty = really stupid person who died in the bath while trying to tweet! Couldnt she wait to get out. Natural Selection people!!!!
19. STOMPY - June 22, 2009 4:14 PM
MEATS my seal of approval, oh wait, this doesn't have to do with bacon....
Although this girl died in water, which was like in that movie wild things where the hot lesbos make out, which had Kevin Bacon in it... close enough...
20. what? - June 22, 2009 4:16 PM
sooo, what was her last tweet?
"He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the holy grail in the Castle of Aaauuuggghhh... ”
21. Marley - June 22, 2009 4:20 PM
even if she was a stupid kid for plugging in her charger while in the tub...
death isn't funny. :I
22. Electric - June 22, 2009 4:26 PM
Shocking!!!!
http://driftwood-x.mybrute.com
23. Ollie Williams - June 22, 2009 4:38 PM
@21
Yes, yes it is.
24. bill - June 22, 2009 4:44 PM
Stupid women
25. Chris - June 22, 2009 5:01 PM
Anyone seen a link to her twitter page? Would be neat to read her last words....
26. Tennist0 - June 22, 2009 5:27 PM
@23: damn straight its funny!
27. Pew³ - June 22, 2009 5:33 PM
I post on Geekologie from the bathtub all the time. The difference is, I don't put any water in the tub.
28. Lain - June 22, 2009 5:49 PM
What the frick is the point of mentioned twitter? It's the power outlet & water that killed her.
29. photoshop-police - June 22, 2009 6:15 PM
ok... new game... everyone post what they think this TWIT's last tweet was:
"TWELP! I'm being twitlectrocuted! twomebody tweet a twambulance! Twurry!"
30. Crazywow - June 22, 2009 6:18 PM
Twitter users should be called Twits and this just proves my point...if I had one.
31. Watch-303 - June 22, 2009 7:23 PM
this isnt funny
32. GoldLyon86 - June 22, 2009 7:31 PM
Of course it's funny... because its so stupid. Why in the world would you be doing anything with a wall plug when your in the bath?!!!! Makes no sense... Natural Selection!
33. Latifuh Tanyisha Bonquisha - June 22, 2009 9:16 PM
Intelligence is overrated.
34. 3.14chan - June 22, 2009 9:31 PM
Darwin Awards?
__________________
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35. dickhead - June 22, 2009 9:43 PM
Did she die?
36. hola - June 22, 2009 10:16 PM
@ 35 really? let me quote the article for you,"a 17-year old Romanian girl died while apparently trying to Twitter from the tub"
37. Daisy - June 22, 2009 10:47 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the moivie Never Back Down where Max was in the tub listening to the song Go sk Alice on a tape player. He asked Baja to throw the recorder into the water at the climax to give him an electric shock, and as he got ready for it Baja threw a grapefruit in the water and ran out of the bathroom with the tape player.
38. Anonymous Blogger - June 22, 2009 11:17 PM
She deserved to be electrocuted. Females pay attention: Stay in the kitchen or this can happen to you.
39. meme - June 23, 2009 1:44 AM
And the Darwin Award for 2009 goes to...
40. Greggo - June 23, 2009 1:57 AM
um this is bullshit. a phone cant electrocute anybody... even when plugged in
41. ravenius - June 23, 2009 2:10 AM
I guess this will affect 'died in a bloggin accident' search results which was usually pointing to xkcd
42. led panel - June 23, 2009 2:44 AM
BWHAHAH AHAH HA HA! God, I needed that.
43. yawn - June 23, 2009 5:28 AM
i am a romanian like her, i usethe computer a lot like her, am a grade A student likeher and still i am alive and well writing this comment being aware of what water + electricity does omfpfpg:3
44. Ðolce - June 23, 2009 5:40 AM
mama cati romani citesc geekologie...ce alte bloguri mai cititi? da-i in pwl mea pe astia ca nici nu stiu unde e romania pe harta....
45. kreebilicus - June 23, 2009 7:11 AM
stupid romanian bitch
46. Jaded Icon - June 23, 2009 7:33 AM
I guess Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin were right. Damn you! You took another Romanian teenager that was looking forward to a life of prostitution.
47. Erik - June 23, 2009 8:00 AM
Darwin-1, Twitter-0
48. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 23, 2009 8:40 AM
10 - I lol'd! Ah, dumb bitch stew, won't do much for your memory, but it is oddly satisfying...
40 - Sitting in water playing with an electrical socket can kill you - moron.
49. Alex - June 23, 2009 11:52 AM
But did she get the tweet off first?
50. Leonidas - June 23, 2009 11:58 AM
To all the Darwin-tards who seem to be posting these days: not knowing the difference between "your" and "you're" puts you in a bit of a compromising position with regard to natural selection, no?
51. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 23, 2009 2:48 PM
@48
It should be @11. It's ok. I still loves you.
52. J - June 23, 2009 3:47 PM
Last tweet? Probably something like "Someone call the paramedics! Will.i.am just electrocuted me in the tub!"
53. Rhialto - June 23, 2009 5:52 PM
Not very smart of this girl.She paid the highest price for her dumbness.The legal authorities in Romania who have the supervision on the electric household systems are as well to blame.
54. henree - June 23, 2009 6:57 PM
LOL!!!! GW said it! not me!
55. Jessica chobot - June 23, 2009 9:10 PM
Dude.
I need to take that girl's lesson to heart. I often twitter in the bathtub. I've also almost fallen under a trance in the tub while playing Zoo Keeper on my DS (no - it's NOT effing pink), and nearly met with a watery demise.
56. Anu - June 24, 2009 1:08 AM
Wonder what she wanted to tweet about..!!!
57. bs - June 25, 2009 1:12 PM
Does the phrase Twitter-Sex exist yet? I think this may be the next incarnation of phone-sex and cyber-sex.
58. Luna - September 15, 2009 11:15 AM
Her real name was Flavia Boricean...that's pretty funny, I hope my stupidity never kills me.