Appliance in the bath - Curious

[pat666]

I've seen this a thousand times and never understood WHY? Someone trying to kill someone drops a toaster/radio whatever into a bath and the bathee fries. Why

The path of least resistance for the current would not be through the person, I would've thought that all that would happen would be the breaker would trip and the person would't feel a thing.

Not considering RCD's at all either I can't see that you would die even without them.

I've read a few things on other websites about the low level current required to kill a human. People are always saying things along the lines of "It only takes 5mA to Kill". A huge voltage is required to push that current through the body so I can't buy that as a reason for being shocked either.


Thoughts

 

[gneill]

This is not a homework question. You should take this inquiry to an appropriate general forum, or perhaps do some research on the web (Google will help); it's a common enough topic of discussion that you should have little difficulty finding material.

 

[pat666]

I meant to post this in the engineering section.