Friday, January 25, 2008

PSA: AC Electricty + nipples = bad ... don't do it!

This is another one I heard on WGN radio (during a segment appropriately called "weird news roundup"(...

Dateline York PA 1/25 (where I did my chaplaincy residency... so I can well imagine the scene at the hospital she was taken to, I was a member of the trauma team there for a year) from inyork.com
Jan 25, 2008 — A woman is dead and her husband is in jail after what police are calling a case of "bizarre sex" using electricity inside their Lower Windsor Township trailer.

Police charged Toby Taylor, 37, of the 100 block of Oak Leaf Drive with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment. As of Thursday night, he was in York County prison in lieu of $100,000 bail.

Police said they responded to Taylor's home late Wednesday night in the Restless Oaks Village mobile home park for a reported electrocution that turned into a cardiac arrest.

Once there, police found Kirsten Taylor, 29, unconscious. She was taken to York Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 11:25 p.m., according to the county coroner's office.

Toby Taylor first told police his wife was shocked as she used a hair dryer, but later admitted he had lied, charging documents state.

"He said that they hook up clips to his wife's nipples and he plugs the cord into an electric strip and he shocks her," charging documents state.

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Police talked to Toby Taylor, who told them his wife had been shocked while using a hair dryer.

Later, police said, they could not find the dryer after Toby Taylor told them where it was.

Toby Taylor also said he had dressed his wife because he thought he was going to have to drive her to the hospital.

Police again spoke with Toby Taylor at York Hospital. It was then that he said he and his wife "have been engaging in electric shock sex and other types of extreme bondage sex for about two years," according to charging documents.

Toby Taylor told police he and his wife got home about 10 p.m. and that she went into the computer room, took off her clothes and shocked herself with the electric strip.

Remember folks, the kinky rule is Safe, Sane and Consensual. This fails on the first two counts, but if you want to know more about electricity play, consult Dr. Ruth, Tristan Taormino, that crazy old bat from Canada, whom ever...

So... AC + Nipples (pierced or unpierced) = bad... got it?
Good!

8 comments:

SnarkAngel said...

Why am I not surprised that they lived in a trailer park?

Boston_Betty said...

...and from an obscure corner of the gene pool, a sigh of relief goes up!

Listig said...

I'm only surprised because I don't remember many of those out there.

But though I initially posted this as "whistling past the graveyard" dark humor- if one person is doing it and gets killed... there are plenty of others out there who are doing it, who will meet the same fate sooner or later.

AC is never safe in any amount applied to any part of the body. Electrical play in general is about as high risk as it gets, but there's no such thing as "play" involving AC... its ALWAYS a form of Russian Roulette, and these folks unfortunately finally got the chamber with the round.

Right Mike said...

Some people are just born dumb.

Listig said...

RM- True enough, but this kind of dumb takes work. No one just happens onto the idea of stripping off the insulation from a cord, putting metal clamps on one end and attaching them to the body, and plugging the cord in... that's the result of a cascade of stupid ideas, if you will.

(And... DURRRRRRRRRR... running electricity- AC or DC- into the body through the chest, above the heart... WOW, if there were a "Noble prize" for stupidity, jacking your heart with normal household current would win it hands down!)

val said...

"Accirding to 'charging documents'"

LOL.

Right Mike said...

look at this website full of idiots
funny as heck for some tho
http://shootthestupid.com/2008/01/08/electropool/

Listig said...

Ya know, had they done charging... they might have been better off, since electronically that refers to charging up a capictor or similar storage device, which would have made it at least DC, and might have made the amps lower... and its amps which kill, not volts. Thats why you can grab a Tesla coil with hundreds of thousands of volts, and just come out looking like Carrot Top or Gilbert Godfried. (Granted, that could be fate worse than death for some, but at least you can recover from it... even if neither of those two gents have.)

RM- yeh, this guy ought to be a finalist for this year's Darwin award!