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OfflineRoosterCogburn
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How NOT to cool your Xbox 360 power supply...
    #7329659 - 08/24/07 12:28 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

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Teen sticks Xbox 360 power supply in bowl of water

Result? Hospital for Darwin Award near-miss

By Lester Haines
Published Friday 24th August 2007 10:15 GMT

A North Carolina teenager who decided the best way to cool his Xbox's overheating power supply was to stick it in a bowl of water was knocked unconcious by the resulting electric shock and earned himself a trip to hospital with "minor burns to his right hand and foot".

According to local news reports, the 14-year-old Brevard youth was having a spot of bother with his console which would shut down every five minutes. His mum told the press he "thought the problem was likely linked to overheating" and duly "tried to fix it on his own based on tips he found online".

This apparently involved wrapping the offending power supply in plastic and tape and dunking it in said bowl "while it was still plugged in". His mother explained: "When I left to go next door he was playing a game but when I got back he was laying on his back on the floor and unconscious."

The young man was subsequently detained overnight at the local Transylvania Community Hospital. ®




Why are people so silly? :shrug:


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Re: How NOT to cool your Xbox 360 power supply... [Re: RoosterCogburn]
    #7329665 - 08/24/07 12:31 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

he didnt get no book learnin like them city folk


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Re: How NOT to cool your Xbox 360 power supply... [Re: RoosterCogburn]
    #7329667 - 08/24/07 12:33 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

brevard, nc eh? i know some people from near there. and my ex from high school went to running camp there. small world filled with stupid people


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Re: How NOT to cool your Xbox 360 power supply... [Re: RoosterCogburn]
    #7329670 - 08/24/07 12:33 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

:flowstone:


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Re: How NOT to cool your Xbox 360 power supply... [Re: RoosterCogburn]
    #7329713 - 08/24/07 12:51 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Maybe he will get a brain transplant while he visiting Transylvania Community Hospital.


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Re: How NOT to cool your Xbox 360 power supply... [Re: rod]
    #7329770 - 08/24/07 01:15 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

this is what i pictured in my head before i read the post


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Re: How NOT to cool your Xbox 360 power supply... [Re: RoosterCogburn]
    #7329781 - 08/24/07 01:17 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

haha, and this kid is 14.. how do you not know not to do that!?


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Re: How NOT to cool your Xbox 360 power supply... [Re: Locus]
    #7329802 - 08/24/07 01:21 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

I know... I think at 14 I had already mastered the whole "electricity and water" don't mix thing. It just goes to show what kind of science education these North Carolina kids get. :shrug:

On a side note, my 360 runs cool simply by having it on TOP of my entertainment center and having the $30 fan attachment thing. I also keep the power supply far away and out in the open. People with heating problems generally invite them by covering fans or simply leaving too little space around the console.

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Re: How NOT to cool your Xbox 360 power supply... [Re: RoosterCogburn]
    #7330209 - 08/24/07 03:27 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

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RoosterCogburn said:
Quote:

Teen sticks Xbox 360 power supply in bowl of water

Result? Hospital for Darwin Award near-miss

By Lester Haines
Published Friday 24th August 2007 10:15 GMT

A North Carolina teenager who decided the best way to cool his Xbox's overheating power supply was to stick it in a bowl of water was knocked unconcious by the resulting electric shock and earned himself a trip to hospital with "minor burns to his right hand and foot".

According to local news reports, the 14-year-old Brevard youth was having a spot of bother with his console which would shut down every five minutes. His mum told the press he "thought the problem was likely linked to overheating" and duly "tried to fix it on his own based on tips he found online".

This apparently involved wrapping the offending power supply in plastic and tape and dunking it in said bowl "while it was still plugged in". His mother explained: "When I left to go next door he was playing a game but when I got back he was laying on his back on the floor and unconscious."

The young man was subsequently detained overnight at the local Transylvania Community Hospital. ®








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Re: How NOT to cool your Xbox 360 power supply... [Re: sublimistri]
    #7330732 - 08/24/07 06:18 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

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this is what i pictured in my head before i read the post






lolz.. that's a nice fridge...


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Re: How NOT to cool your Xbox 360 power supply... [Re: RoosterCogburn]
    #7330947 - 08/24/07 07:26 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

It would've worked if he vacuum sealed it first.


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