Man charged with electrocuting wife

[The_Professor]

Kinky Sex, Shocking Death
Pennsylvania man charged with electrocuting wife during nip zip

JANUARY 25--A kinky sex escapade ended this week with the electrocution death of a Pennsylvania woman and the arrest of her husband for manslaughter. According to cops, Toby Taylor, 37, first claimed that his wife Kirsten was shocked by her hair dryer. But he then admitted that the couple was "into weird sexual behaviors," according to a probable cause affidavit. Taylor then explained that he hooks clips to his wife's nipples and "plugs the cord into a electric strip" and shocks her. On Wednesday evening, Taylor said, Kirsten removed her clothes, attached the clips, and shocked herself. He then picked up the electric strip and shocked her several more times, adding that he had placed a piece of electric tape over her mouth during the jolts. After the last shock, Kirsten, 29, "fell over on to her face." Taylor initially thought his wife was joking, but quickly realized she was unconscious. He then dressed her in preparation for driving to the hospital, but instead called 911 when she stopped breathing. Taylor, pictured in the below mug shot, told investigators that the couple had "been engaging in electric shock sex and other types of extreme bondage for about 2 years." He was charged yesterday with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment and was jailed in the York Count lockup (where he remains in custody on $100,000 bail).

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0125081dryer1.html

[Plane]

Offhand it would seem that a shock of 10,000 volts would be more deadly than 100 volts. But this is not so! Individuals have been electrocuted by appliances using ordinary house currents of 110 volts and by electrical apparatus in industry using as little as 42 volts direct current. The real measure of shock's intensity lies in the amount of current (amperes) forced though the body, and not the voltage. Any electrical device used on a house wiring circuit can, under certain conditions, transmit a fatal current.

While any amount of current over 10 milliamps (0.01 amp) is capable of producing painful to severe shock, currents between 100 and 200 mA (0.1 to 0.2 amp) are lethal. Currents above 200 milliamps (0.2 amp), while producing severe burns and unconsciousness, do not usually cause death if the victim is given immediate attention. Resuscitation, consisting of artificial respiration, will usually revive the victim.

From a practical viewpoint, after a person is knocked out by an electrical shock it is impossible to tell how much current has passed through the vital organs of his body. Artificial respiration must be applied immediately if breathing has stopped.

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~p616/safety/fatal_current.html
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n0741560g2267308/

http://www.bmb.leeds.ac.uk/illingworth/myopath/heart.htm

In a house breaker box , the fuses are usually 15 to 30 amps depending on the circuit , applied across the area of the heart (coronary sinus) a half of an amp is plenty to cause fatality ,though survival is possible from very serious shocks of high amprage, the nerves that serve the heart are especially vunerable because merely confuseing their normal signal can disrupt the hearts necessacery rythym.

Endorphins can be a  high but getting a rush rom pain can involve real damage and serious danger. Endorphins are also availible from strenuous exercise and thrilling fast rides and eating peppers and free fall.

Getting accustomed to endorphin highs can produce bizzare behaviors , a normal life produces a normal occurance of thrill and excitement , needing more all the time is a junkie.

That is just my opinion , have I connected dots that don't really belong together?

[kimba1]

I totally agree plane.
thiers a movie called 9 and a 1/2 weeks
that most folks love but don`t get about the movie
the dangers of going for bigger and better thrills.
i always thought one of the unknown signs of stupidity is turning jaded and bragging about it.
to lose the ability to enjoy the simple things to me is madness