You get some crap shared on social networks, don’t you? Warnings about this, that and the other, sad stories about disappeared pets in the north of Scotland and escaped rapists and murderers you should look out for. I am not sure if but one of these posts has ever turned up Tiddles or Peter Sutcliffe but obviously some people think somehow they will. Today I read the story of Irina Rybnikova, a fifteen year old girl from Russia, who died in the bath when charging her iPhone.
It’s very sad to hear about the death of this young girl, who apparently was a champion martial arts fighter, but quite what it has to do with me, or anyone else, is baffling.
People under 16 should not be looking at certain social networks anyway and in any event, should not such warnings be issued by the parents of their children and not someone who has borrowed a story from a tabloid newspaper? The warning should not be that difficult. It should be along very simple lines. Like this:
‘Water is a major conductor of electricity and it is not sensible to use electrical devices when you are in the bath. What happens is if you are holding the device whilst sitting in the bath and such device falls into the water, you could die rather quickly.’
If you have brought your children up with even the slightest modicum of sensibility, it is reasonable to assume they will know this already, recognising as they should the inherent dangers of certain products when they are used in ways that might kill them. You are wasting your time by polluting my timeline with such patronising nonsense.
As the great Adge Cutler once put it, Don’t Tell I, Tell ‘Ee.
