The question arises is, how can young people be expected to know about such hazards? Mine had an earlier brush with electricity and I may well have saved his life. He sat in a filled bath and turned on the mains radio he had taken into the bathroom, via an extension lead in our bedroom. By pure chance, I went upstairs to get something from the bedroom and switched off the power. He hadn't seen the Bond film in which a villain throws a live electric fire an occupied bath.
My wife's dippy aunt lived in old cottage with the bath in the kitchen. With in an arm's length of the bath was an electric kettle, on top of a counter which was on he same level as the bath rim. She told us how convenient it was to make a cup of tear without having to get out of he water. I hoped she remembered my warning and explanation but she died later in a road accident..
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