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He should have connected it to his testicles so that there would be hopefully no chance of offspring…..stupid, litigious little punk..
i seconds that.
in the USA you can sue anyone for almost any reason(even stupid ones)
*second
You can try… until a judge throws the case out as frivolous and makes you pay for the defendant’s legal fees.
Its rare that defendants receive compensations for their legal fees in the US. Other countries however do have loser pays rules.
PS. His heart should have stayed …
I swear to god, if he wins, I’m quitting the U.S.
agreed
Ditto.
I’d seriously consider it.
I wouldn’t quit but maybe sue the kid
I just want to point.. only in America. OH CANADA………
oh it happens here too. No one can take coffee on the busses in my city anymore because someone spilled coffee on some twat. She turned around and sued the city. Somehow she won.
The bus riders should file a class action suit against that c*nt because she ruined it for everybody. I hope she gets hit by a bus. All the bad things on Earth should happen to people like that, them and only them!
And “loser pays” is a good rule… why? Most lawsuits that aren’t immediately tossed out have some merit on both sides. Just because someone loses doesn’t mean that they should have to pay legal costs. Leaving it up to the judge is the right thing to do.
Generally speaking, the person in the wrong should pay. The assumption here is that the losing side was in the wrong. Thus, they should pay. The other side is innocent. The losing side should pretty much always pay. If that were the policy, then when the judge wanted he could always rule that the defendant pay the plaintiff the cost of the legal fees he had and the result would be the same.
The American system is stupid just like the American people.
And what if the plaintiff is an individual without a lot of money or power who’s fighting to right a wrong committed by a large corporation or powerful lobby who can afford the best lawyers? Do you think that person has the greatest chances of winning? Before you answer, take a look at any of a variety of human/civil rights issues that have been fought in courts around the world. It’s not always easy for the “right” person to win, and forcing plaintiffs to pay the legal fees of defendants could, in some cases, have a chilling effect on the pace of necessary legal reforms.
Also, your understanding of how legal proceedings work is laughably simplistic. Just because a plaintiff loses a case doesn’t necessarily mean that person is guilty or “in the wrong”. It also doesn’t mean that a defendant who wins a case is innocent. A defendant who wins a case may be innocent, or the judge/jury may not have had enough evidence to convict, or justice may have intentionally miscarried.
I hate to break this to you, but that law degree you sent away for isn’t actually valid.
Defending the inability of defendants in U.S. courts to recover attorney fees unless the plaintiff’s case was utterly without merit is … A FAIL.
You don’t seem to understand the US legal system. The defendant can ALWAYS issue a counter-claim for (but not limited to) legal fees arising from a frivolous lawsuit.
I like what they did in the Justice League where the lawyer faces the same fate as the person they’re representing.
would any people sign up to be a lawyer in the Justice League world? yeah right
The common law legal system that is practiced in all English speaking countries is broken and convoluted. The civil law system is much better.
And neither is yours, Mr. Magoo. Just how does your comment about corporate or civil rights law relate to a stupid kid and his idiot family who feel it’s their right to blame someone else for their mistake??? Are you even paying attention to the post or did you electrocute your own nipples as well?! PAY ATTENTION TO THE ARTICLE and stop wasting space with something that has NO BEARING on what’s written. We’re talking about FRIVOLOUS lawsuits. That’s all, Moron.
And you’re as bigoted as most.
The American system appears to be more keenly aware than most that a verdict of “not liable” in a civil case does NOT mean the defendant was wholly without fault, or that a plaintiff’s case was wholly without merit. It also seems to be aware, unlike certain others, that some parties to a case might have much deeper pockets than another. The inability of a relatively impecunious plaintiff to prove his case by a preponderance of the evidence against a very wealthy defendant should not make that plaintiff responsible for whatever small fortune the defendant was able to pour into his legal team.
A “loser pays” system, if implemented as a blanket rule like you want, would stifle the ability of poorer citizens to recover damages from wealthier ones. I’d rather not live in even more of an oligarchy than we already have, thanks.
“Loser pays” does not require the payment of excessive legal fees. “Reasonable and customary” will do, thank you.
I like chewing rocks. They tastes good.
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What you don’t see here is the article goes on to say the teacher DARED him to do it. Still the kid is retarded but at that point the teacher is wrong too.
The teacher was cleared and it was the kids who dared him.
And you ThomWill didn’t report on further is that the article goes on to say
“Several students reportedly told police Mr Kelley was involved in the dare, but confusingly, Dubois has since defended his teacher and claimed it was a fellow student who challenged him and offered him the drink.”
you = what … d’oh
And what Pengwyn further goes on to not report that I further went on to not report is that the teacher resigned shortly after the incident.
I’ve known teachers to do things like this back in my day. It could be the students told the truth, or the teacher told the truth, or a combo of the above. Either way the teacher then resigning makes it look fishy.
Or maybe he is just tired of teaching retards, who knows…
Comes with the territory if you’re teaching public schools.
Which is why you shouldn’t teach in public schools. Some people have an intellect that was made for working in the fields.
I resent that remark. There’s more wrong with the system than the students in public schools. And the vast majority of students and parents can’t afford private schools. I’m currently studying to become a teacher, and I’ve noticed through my own education and observations that public school students are just as intelligent as private school students.
And who’s to say private school teachers are better just because the schools have more money? Most of that money doesn’t even fund educational programs, especially not in religiously affiliated schools. Most of the tuition money goes to whatever church the school supports. So it’s a common misconception that private schools are better than public ones.
dude! kelley was an awesome teacher!
ThomWill, what YOU don’t see is that after this kid got out of the hospital, he said the teacher had NOTHING to do with it, and that the whole story about the teacher daring him was false.
I live in this town, my son attends the middle school…and it’s a total embarrassment.
That’s only one side of the story.
Why is that everyone on this board says, oh what if the plaintiff is poor? You don’t think it ever happens that the defendant is poor? Plaintiffs have the benefit of what is called a contigency fee agreement where their attorney gets a percentage of any amount their client gets….defendants don’t have that benefit.
I’m a lawyer, and I wouldn’t take that one if it walked in the door. There’s a point where the Attempted Darwin factor makes a case unwinnable.
I’d say there might be grounds under the law, but there’s almost no reasonable chance of prevailing on the facts unless someone else did it the week before.
Which means I’d agree the plaintiff probably will be sanctioned.
if only it were true that America wouldn’t let such frivolous cases…….but then the “STELLA AWARDS” wouldn’t exist !
Ok.
So can we sue him for being a stupid idiot???
I suggest he should get some caning with a stick.
Just the way students used to be educated in the past.
It wasn’t that long ago!
Unfortunately true. There should be a “you can’t sue for this because it’s common sense not to do it” clause for just such ridiculousness.
Only in the US of A
The rest of us don’t have nipples.
No, human failure is worldwide. Remember, it was Germany that gave us the cannibal that advertised that he wanted to eat someone and then had people respond to him that wanted to be a victim. Russia just gave us a government that’s telling their people to smoke and drink more to boost their economy. Japan had to classify used panties as antiques to stop an industry based around selling them out of vending machines.
As a species, we all average out to being on par with crap-flinging monkeys at the zoo. The only difference is that if one of us is reading a post on FailBlog, it means that we’re the ones being averaged out by guys like nipple dude.
Well said!
nice.
Shock your nuts, it makes you dance.
I don’t know why I found this so funny…
Don’t worry, you’re not the only one.
Maybe his father should have done that. Then we wouldn’t have to deal with his stupid children.
Yeah, some people are really stupid.
Better yet, his heart should have just stayed stopped. The last thing America needs right now are people like this.
Dumbass kids these days.
Wow. I don’t think the teacher has much to worry about in that court case. I mean, he wasn’t really at any fault here.
Actually, the school is probably going to end up paying out. A friend of mine sawed her finger in shop and successfully sued, saying she wasn’t there the day the instructor told us about saws. It’s patently obvious that you have to keep your fingers away from a moving saw blade, but she ended up with money all the same.
Actually, that is a different scenario. You are actually not allowed to go near the machines until you have gotten the breifing on proper use of them. If someone misses it, they have to get it before using the machines. The teacher didn’t do that, and the school was at fault. But in the case of the fail, the teacher shouldn’t have had to tell him it was dangerous to electrocute himself. It was a danger that anyone with a working brain could avoid easily. The teacher is at no fault here. I mean, it’s kind of a no-brainer to a high-school senior that electrocuting yourself is bad. The court will almost definitely call the school innocent.
agreed… safty around electricity should already be common knowledge, hvent people seen any electical safty videos while they were young, hell the parents should of told their children to be careful with any of the electrical equipment found around the house, like how its not a good idea to stick a metal object in a power socket
Of course you’re right, Loler. The problem is it shouldn’t have to be that way. Why should it be any less apparent that you need to be really careful around a band-saw than you should be around electricity?
Did the girl saw off her finger on accident?
If she did it on accident, there is a chance it could have been avoided by proper instruction on the use of the saw…. I’m sincerely doubting she did it on purpose…
This kid did this intentionally, and is now trying to make bank off of it. Comparing apples and oranges, there are going to be discrepancies that could alter the outcome.
I agree Loler.
I think I’ll sue the hospital for saving this kids life…….. him being alive at all increases the risks to everybody around him due to inherited stupidity.
Sorry I don’t see how it is different. My mommy taught me 32 or so years ago that blades cut….spinning or not, don’t touch them without caution. My mommy taught me at about the same time that electricity hurts…I have done electrical work, but I guarantee I have cut thousands if not tens of thousands of things more.
I sure hope the school wins in this case. However, I can see that the parents and student will claim that he didn’t know the electric machine (can’t remember exactly what it was) had THAT much power, and probably thought it would just be a little zap. Like licking a battery or something, maybe stronger, but not strong enough to do any real damage. Seems to me the parents think the teacher should have warned him that it has X amount of power and can do such-and-such damage if played with.
But I’m siding with the school on this one, personally.
No, it’s very likely that the student will win the lawsuit for the same reason the woman who spilled hot coffee on herself won her suit against McDonalds – they didn’t TELL her the coffee was hot, after all. In this case, the teacher didn’t TELL the student in so many words that electricity was dangerous – and since the student is, after all, short a synapse or two in the brain department, the jury will feel sorry for him and blame the teacher and the school and the city because this kid didn’t have enough sense to stay dead.
Actually, according to educational law, unfortunately the school will be held responsible in that case. The teacher is considered liable for their students, much like parents are when their children are under 18.
karasu: “Actually, the school is probably going to end up paying out. A friend of mine sawed her finger in shop and successfully sued”
Even if he had a cause of action against the teacher, because he purposefully and knowingly used the machine in an improper way, contributory negligence will extinguish his claim.
The local news on this has widely reported that the teacher was encouraging this behavior and even offered a Mountain Dew to any of the students who would do it. I know that doesn’t sound plausible- but you can look up the reports on it.
If that’s actually the case, then the teacher should be liable, although I hope the school wouldn’t be. There must have been some sort of standard prohibiting such behavior by faculty that the teacher was violating.
The kid parents encouraged their son in this project.
They didn’t expect he live thru-it…
Clearly, you don’t know Mr. Kelley. (I do, I went to Dover High School.)
The exchange probably went something like this:
Kid in class: Hey, Dubois, clip those leads to your nipples!
Kelley (from across the room, probably reading something): Hah. If you do, I’ll give you a Mountain Dew.
Dubois: Hahaha! *clip*
In short, this kind of messing around goes on in that class all the time, but USUALLY nobody’s retarded enough to do it…
Actually the teacher got fired, though I think liability will still remain with the school… and local rumor is the kid did this stupid stunt for a Mt. Dew.
1bdi beat me to it..
He resigned, he wasn’t fired: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20015310-504083.html
His “resignation” was along the lines of “an offer he can’t refuse.”
he was fired, good thing.
Dumbass.
It only took me two mistakes as a child to learn to be careful around electricity.
de LIES and de fibs!!
I am
ed!!!!
He should have put the electrodes on his temps. Clearly electroshock therapy is need here.
Sounds fitting.
You have to have working brain cells for there to be an effect.
So I guess it’s useless for him.
His stupidity is electrifying.
Heart-stoppingly shocking.
It’s a Current fad.
He probably got to go ohm early that day.
Is he suing them for battery?
Watt was he thinking?
The state of education is simply reVOLTing.
dang…all the good jokes are taken
Yeah! that shocking!
I hope he gets CHARGED with murder
That’s one juicy story.
It’s gotten me wired to the news channel!
So I guess that renders it useless for him.
A is for aids.
And that has to do with this…how?
Didn’t see this in the paper. Guess I’m behind on CURRENT events.
Kyle Dubois, you’re a spitting image of what’s wrong with society in America today. You make a stupid choice and somehow it’s somebody else’s fault.
It’s always somebody elses fault! It’s never your fault that you are an idiot…
I have to agree….. this dumbass inherited his stupidity from his parents……..
Actually, it is the kid parents who are given him this idea of project.
They didn’t expect he live thru-it…
I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY AGREE.
Shocking.
You would never try that in your lab would ya?
*squeeze*
Not on myself anyway
*happyfridaysqueeze*
All in the name of research, I assure you!!
*puts on steel-cupped bra and vulcanized rubber camisole*
*squeezes monkey*
*click*
*admires LCB’s capacitance*
You like? I got it at Bob Vila’s Secret.
With that outfit, all the guys nearby are going to look like conductors.
They’ll fight for honor, and the resistance will be feudal.
Wire you doing this?
Watt is going ohm?
No, Watt’s on second…
they fathers should be sued for raising such a stupid kid!!!
I approve this message!
The judge should not only dismiss this case… he ought to order the kid and parents to be publicly executed. Too stupid to live.
… the family electric share …
I feel truly ashamed of being an American with people like him running around. Seriously, the IQ of children these days is dropping faster than the Stock Market numbers. Where’s a good Darwinian death when you need one?
according to other news sources this really did stop his heart and resulted in permanent brain damage. It sounds like the ‘demonstration cords’ (whatever those are) plugged DIRECTLY into the wall, and delivered a sustained current for 3 seconds — this is not just some jolt from a 9v battery!
Obviously, pretty stupid to mess with electricity this way, but it seems like the school certainly handed the kid enough rope.
The teacher immediately resigned. When you lead a class of students working with exceptionally dangerous materials, you need to provide exceptional protections because, let’s face it, some of ‘em /are/ stupid. Like it or not, this is the teacher’s fail.
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/odd-news/new-hampshire-teen-kyle-dubois-nipples-zapped-sues-school_100421684.html
“When you lead a class of students working with exceptionally dangerous materials, you need to provide exceptional protections because, let’s face it, some of ‘em /are/ stupid. Like it or not, this is the teacher’s fail.”
Generally you have a duty to disclose known dangers that are likely to “eventuate.”
The teacher had no duty (and no reason) to tell the kids not to plug the cords into a wall and shock themselves, any more than he had a duty to tell them to not swing from the ceiling lamps or eat sawdust.
You think that students getting shocked in a class on electrical trades when presented with ‘demonstration cords’ is a danger that isn’t likely to ‘eventuate?’
No, no! I’m guessing that someone getting shocked was somewhat likely…. someone purposefully clamping them onto their body and plugging them in, however, I wouldn’t see coming….
Not with students this kids age, at least. If it were 3-5 year olds, maybe…
Wut? How did he get brain damage? Don’t you need a brain for that?
Anyway, there is a thing as common sense. If teachers have to say something that’s common sense (like “don’t shock yourself”), then there would be no time left for classes anymore! Just imagine of all the things they’d have to say: “don’t punch the glass and then cut yourself with the broken glass”, “don’t eat your pen, write with it”, “don’t attempt to pop your eyes out of your eyesockets” etcetera etcetera etcetera, I can go on for years with that.
yes, there’s common sense. I’m not letting the kid off the hook for being foolish. But common sense also tells the teacher — the one who is responsible for the safety of the class — to not just trust that students will to the right thing. You introduce a new and dangerous object (clamps whose leads plug straight into into 110) and you should explicitly say, “These are very dangerous and could deliver a lethal jolt of electricity, so don’t screw around.”
If the teach had said this, students would remember it, and the family’s argument that the guy was actually egging things on would immediately be dismissed as out-of-hand. But that didn’t happen. So, now theres the question: what the hell was going on that put students in this situation, and why does anybody have any kind of question as to whether or not the person in charge was part of it?
Of course his family is saying the teacher egged him on….they have an idiot who is now going to need tons of medical treatment. Does this kid have no electricity in his house? He is 18 FREAKING years old, not a child.
I’ve done some looking into this now… and I read that DuBois attached one clamp, another student attached the second, and a third plugged the whole thing in. With three students _DOING_ it, you can bet there were more who were watching.
Apparently, the teacher was either encouraging the whole event or busily chatting about fantasy football somewhere else. He’s admitted to leaving his class unattended for up to 20 minutes in some cases.
There’s more going on here than one kid being stupid all by himself. There was definitely a culture in that room that wasn’t impressed with how dangereous their actions were, and that needs to be examined.
Cry darwin if you want, but something’s wrong with that school and that teacher and they deserve to have their methods and safeguards evaluated. If it takes a lawsuit, then so be it. Note the electrician’s post below, he called an alligator clip on a 120 volt lead a ‘suicide cord.’
I don’t think there’s really anything wrong with the school or class (that is, in relation to this incident; there’s plenty wrong otherwise).
What’s wrong is the kid being retarded enough to go along with it.
I’ve known kids who’ve taken Kelley’s classes, and they’ve told me they don’t really learn anything in that class. The class is a pretty basic setup, a few stations with light fixtures, outlets, etc.; you make it go. Same stuff you did in science class in 7th grade with batteries and flashlight bulbs, just life-size and 120V.
Why does everyone assume the teacher DIDN’T tell the kids to use safe methods around the electrical equipment? I’ve been a science teacher – you can tell your students something like this three times, write it on the board, and put it on the top of their lab sheets in bold print, and you’ll still have one or two with NO IDEA what you said. Becuase they no matter how you sing and dance, they just won’t listen.
For example, in spite of her repeated warnings about not handling the specimen directly, one of my coworker’s students ate rat testicles during a dissection lab. Although my husband gives an extensive demonstration on how to handle an exacto knife in his printmaking project and writes CUT AWAY FROM YOURSELF! all over the room, a few end up cutting themselves every year.
I wasn’t in that classroom. I don’t know what happened. But I DO know that if the kid didn’t know what was up, it wasn’t NECESSARILY the teacher’s fault. It could have (gasp!) been his own.
If I was that teacher I would have resigned as well. Save for the fact that I would have done so for fear of intentionally killing the next brainless fool to cross my path.
I hope the young man and family lose this suit.
You probably don’t have much to worry about. The court is probably going to think the same way.
Okay fine…I will ask again…
Would you Cuddle Puddle me if I told you it was Friday?
*looks for the goddess*
Where are all the regulars today? *lips quiver*
Hmmm…lessee what we can put together here. I think this button is the auto set-up.
*pushes button*
*hears explosion in background*
Um, HIDE!
*hides*
Drop and rock and roll!! I mean drop and do something and roll with it!! Dammit!! Someone call 9ELBENTY!!!!
*runs along conveniently placed dock*
*defies convention and executes a perfect dive into the water*
*holds up a 9.ELEBENTY score sign*
I would give you a 10 but you splashed water on my wet suit.
Oh, good. Not too much damage then.
This kind of wet suit isn’t good with water.
Poorly named then, isn’t it?
Apologies…I was just dealing with a spider, -with extreme prejudice.
Oh…
*sudden queaziness ensues*
*dials 3333*
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
*wakes sleeping coworkers*
*jumps over slower coworkers*
Ouch! Watch were you’re going!
*goes back to sleep*
Was the button big and red? Because, if it was, we’re all screwed.
WhaddoIdo? WhaddoIdo?
*runs to check Emergency Safety Manual*
*finds it locked*
*cries*
*drips on the carpet*
Yeah, the bathroom is a write off.
The boiler does not appreciate explosives.
Don’t panic.
*tries to break lock on fire extinguisher cage*
ShamWow?
*whips out his hose*
This will take care of things.
A firemans hose
*faints*
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! FIREMENZ!!!!
*swoon / faint*
*faint / swoon*
*walks in, covered in dust from the explosion*
I was sleeping, and then all of a sudden, I heard this big noise… what happened?
I googled it and read:
“Dubois was critically injured and his legal team claim he has suffered permanent brain damage.”
I’m quite sure his brain already was damaged goods.
Dubois … Rule No 1 – It is WRONG to be french!
I hope the judge puts him in jail for bothering his honor with such a stupid case! No better – he should be given the chair! THE CHAIR! HUh huh.
Why the chair, why not just 2 alligator clips mounted to the wall. It would be cheaper and could be done in any courtroom, schoolroom – Oh he already did that…
Utter Retardedness.. back in the day if this was in the news paper everyone would be laughing at him.. but we’re so politically correct that retards get payed for being retards. Hate that honest working people get screwed so badly in this country.
too bad he hadn’t done his d*ck.
PETA hates it when you electrocute ducks.
LoLoL
better his parents
This guy deserves chemical castration.
Kyle Dubois, huh? Well I guess his legal claims are somewhat “dubious”.
If I’m ever in a position to decide whether or not to hire this kid, he’ll be remaining unemployed. He should probably factor that into the “lost wages” section of his suit.
i hope it electrocuted his balls because he should not be allowed to have children dumber then him
*than
*removes clamps*
How sadistic of you granny!
It’s just my USB clamps, they’re not quite as powerful as the ones I have at home
You just need to amp it up a little.
it has an external power supply, but my legs are tired of pedaling now
*squeeze!*
This yoga pose will help your legs.
*folds granny into a pretzel*
*squeezes the pretzel*
The charges MUST be dismissed, with examplary prejudice to that damn Darwin Awards candidate AND his family!
Then, he should be procecuted for abusive and difamatory legal procedures.
I also second each and every proposition to have the guy castrated.
maybe he should go to join for being a sexual deviant….. hang on a second….ok no
*jail
So if had shocked his balls off he would’ve been “Electrated”?
These people aren’t suing because they’re stupid; they’re suing because they’re greedy b@st@rds who have decided to pervert the system and possibly ruin the teacher’s life so they can convert their stupid child’s misdeed into a wad of cash.
They may just get away with it, too. Depressing.
Remember the woman who burned herself with hot coffee and successfully sued Mac Donald’s for damages because she wasn’t warned that hot coffee would be hot?
Can we not go down this road? There are a number of facts about that case that no one ever mentions. She wasn’t driving, and the car she was in was parked when the coffee was spilled. She initially asked them to pay her medical bills and they refused. And the serving temperature was higher than is safe to drink, and was dropped nearly 30 degrees as a result of the suit.
Cat is mostly correct.
And while coffee is hot, od you know how hot a liquid has to be to give third degree burns? If took your coffee pot at home right from the burner and dumped it in your lap, it wouldnt cause 3rd degree burns. Mc D’s coffee was about 40-50F hotter than the coffee fresh from your pot. She didnt just burn herself, she severely burned herself to the point she needed skin grafts.
Think that coffee might be a BIT too hot?
A 120v power cord with alligator clamps on the two leads? Those of us in the electricity business call those “Suicide Cords”.
120v is very unlikely to kill anyone; you’d have to have a pacemaker or attach the clamps close to your heart like this idiot did. Well, strictly speaking it’s the current not the voltage that kills, but with American’s baby voltage, you’re not going to get large currents in most cases.
In the rest of the world, 230v is damn more likely to get you done in an accident.
This is just some sad s**t, I’m from the same school as this nutter and I can’t believe he is suing the teacher. I knew he was being stupid, but he can’t just sue because the teacher didn’t mention anything about it. This is the kind of thing that should be known. Humanity continues down it’s ramp into a world I don’t want to live in.
Dear Darwin, would he qualify for an honorable mention?
Also, my parents live in that area – the teacher was a bit more aware than the papers lead on.
Dang when I was in shop class (and yes I took shop
)
1 – DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING WITH OUT TEACHER THERE
2 – IF TEACHER IS NOT THERE YOU ARE TO STAY OUT OF ROOM (and room woudl be locked)
3 – Keep your fingers out of the bending brake – they will not come out the same way they went in.
4 – Saws are not toys. I will not reattach your finger if you are stupid.
5 – Do not light up in room, saw dust is highly flammable
6 – Students may not use the welding stuff.
7 – electrictity will kill you.
The saddest part of all is that he, like the woman who sued for burning herself with her hot coffee because it wasn’t labeled as such (and won) – will probably win… cause, you know, the education system has SO much money to throw around on lawsuits like this one.
“OK everyone, today we’re going to be using electric circuits. But before we start, I want to remind you all to not to put the crocodile clips on your nipples and electrocute yourselves.”
Yeah… right….
Lol stupid boy
look what happend to his hair after that http://cheezburger.com/View/3926567424
Damn, he was so close to receiving a Darwin Award.
what a douche
Is this lawsuit really surprising after movies like “Jackass” and TV shows like “Xtreme Sports” on Spike. Too many teenagers seem to, a) think that they are invincible, and b) look to avoid responsibility. That combo is a lawsuit about to happen.
It is apparent that the brain damage listed in the lawsuit occurred BEFORE the incident…
I go to school with him, lmfao. He’s such a dumb ass.
Go green wave! I love how Mr. Kelly gave the kid CPR, and gets no credit.
my instructions: electrocuting yourself’s bad m’kay
Update, water is wet and fire is hot. News at eleven.
Too bad it didn’t kill him!
Its funny because I go to that school and he did it because some kid dared him to attach the clamps to his nips for a MtnDew. Stupid wiggers are stupid.
WTF?…..the kid should be incarcerated for being SO STUPID LOL…FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE…
He’d end up choking on a fork in jail and then proceed to sue the warden.
Just note that in America, you can take anyone to court for anything. That doesn’t mean you win, just because you take someone to court. The judge would have to award it, and unless the teacher deliberately allowed students to clamp electrical wires on them, I highly doubt any judge would award anything at all.
Thing is people win for stupid s**t they did to themselves every day. Otherwise it wouldn’t be quite so common for people to sue over their own stupidity. If people KNEW it wouldn’t work, they wouldn’t go through so much hassle unless it really was worth it.
Counter sue and go after him and his parents for utter stupidity.
Kid probably watches the Jersey Shore too
that’s a special kind of stupid
I disagree, I think this should be a win. Only for the fact that his heart stopped. Too bad it didn’t stay that way.
Doesn’t matter that his heart stopped, it was still his own stupidity. It would be like saying someone else should be to blame if one intentionally tries to breathe underwater and drowns, but is then revived through CPR. Should the lifeguard(s) be held responsible for not telling everyone ahead of time “Don’t try to breathe underwater, it could be deadly!”
Wow.. Just..wow.. o_o; I’m glad I’m not a teacher at a school where stupid might potentially earn you money while it might cause me to loose my job.
I’m sorry. Is this failblog.com or darwinawards.com?
Neither. It’s actually failblog.org
That’s a prescriptivist attitude. But lots of linguists take a descriptivist approach, considering words to be defined by their usage. That is, if everyone uses “electrocuted” to mean “shocked”, then, the argument is, it does mean shocked. After all, who would be the authority who gets to declare what the ‘true’ meaning of a word is?
In that case, what word will we use for death by “electrocution”? “Electric’d” “Pow’r'd” “Zap’d”? Why the hell not put those ghetto apostrophes in there if we’re going to ruin the language!
In other news, I drowned yesterday when I fell in the water. I was hanged when I caught my scarf in the door of my car. And I immolated when I put my hand in the fire putting a log on it.
Yet I can still type all this, because I’m not a prescriptivist! Yay for abuse of the language!
well at least i got warned. i was gonna try this in a few weeks!
lulz i went to school with that kid and now hes on fail blog this is great
More fail: “electrocution,” by definition, is fatal. It comes from “electro”+”execution.”
The only person in the world to survive an electrocution.
I can easily see how someone can grow up thinking 120V is harmless. Many people in Europe have received 230V shocks without any lasting damage. It all depends on the current and the route through the body. Along a finger it is relatively harmless but from one hand to another it can cause paralysis from the neck down. In this case, the route was through his heart so of course it stopped.
I think they got the last name wrong, pretty sure it was Dumass not Dubois.
Although I DO agree, you just proceeded in calling someone else a dumb ass while spelling the word wrong yourself.
doing what americans do best!
I can sue my neighbor for not making me bacon and calling me The Duke Of Poopbutt, if I want to fill out the paperwork. It will get tossed out the second a judge looks at it. Just because the idiot is suing doesn’t mean he’ll win or that it will ever see the inside of a courtroom.
It’s all fun and games until somebody’s heart stops.
Do you think I can shoot myself in the head, and then sue Glock for not warning me that was bad? :p
Depends on whether you’ve got reincarnation worked out or not.
Holy crap! I can’t believe this went international and made it onto failblog. I work in the same district.
Only in USA… I tell ya.
Only in America indeed!
It seems to me that settling is where this will end up. It is unfortunate but this will probably also result in the termination of the electrical trades class in that district and several others will likely follow suit. The student and his friends should be charged with criminal mischief resulting in injury to an individual (they obviously had not been following whatever other rules had been established in the class, even if the teacher hadn’t warned them about something they were all instructed in in kindergarten via cartoon flying electric lightbulb bugs). If there is a complaint that they are being unfairly persecuted because of their civil suit, the district can reply that it had felt that the lesson against such action had been learned through the natural consequences of it but that in light of the civil suit had realized this was not actually the case.
I think the teacher should have intervened when the student took his shirt off and attached a clamp to his nipple; electricity or not, that’s just inappropriate behavior in class.
C’mon – look at the tard’s photo. If the teacher had expressly said “please do not clamp the 120VAC cables to your moistened nipples because that’ll kill you”, the kid would almost definitely have done it anyway because you’d have put the stupid idea into his stupid lumpy head.
I blame it on people not beating their children severely enough anymore.
id have to say its jest comon sence to not do that anyways then aging the amricans dont allways think that way i mean they ecleted bush 4 to many times
Whut?
looks like he got burned on that deal
A pathetic weasel.
He doesn’t need the money…I can see his future right now. He’ll grow up to be an Enron CEO and make millions on the backs of other people.
I think everyone is missing an important point here:
The kid was indeed stupid for doing this ‘experiment’, I am not denying that.
But what about the fact that the teacher just stood there and let him hurt himself as he watched?
What kind of teacher does not try to stop his or her students from hurting themselves, no matter how stupid the students are?
I can definitely see how the teacher should be held responsible for being passive.
So the teacher is not responsible in the sense that he did not make the student do this. But the teacher is responsible for letting it happen and failing to warn the student of the danger.
Also, let me say that nobody is responsible for being stupid. If a 17 year-old has no clue that electricity is dangerous, then there was a huge problem somewhere along the line in his life and I can’t see how he could be responsible for that.
I agree with those who said in America someone is always responsible – it seems in America teenagers are responsible for not being educated right by those who are in charge of their education.
As if anyone made the choice to be that stupid and ignorant…
Right, because he doesn’t have parents. That’s why teachers have to go to each home and tell toddlers not to touch hot stoves, stick tongues in electrical outlets and so forth. Maybe instead of teaching the kid that the world revolves around him and he has no responsibility for his actions, the parents should of taught the kid electricity can hurt you.
If i was the teacher of a dumass like that, me to, i stand aside and watch the show!
Maybe the teacher wanted to do humanity a service and heighten the general IQ of mankind drastically by letting that moron dispose of himself.
Or maybe he wasn´t really paying attention because he assumed that an 18y-old couldn´t be that stupid.
I wonder what was the title of is experiment?
Are moron conduct electricity or is there is a god?
This. This exactly.
How about the fact that he didn’t apply himself to learn jack f–king shi!? He IS responsible for his stupidity, for all we know. And even if his teachers weren’t good he could easily have gone on the internet and learned on his own. You can’t blame ‘lack of good teachers in the past’ for this.
How about the fact that the teacher can’t be watching every student every moment of the day? A 17-year old is basically an adult and should not need constant supervision.
I TA’ed labs in college. You can’t keep your eye on everyone, even with two people running the lab. And that’s with college students. With high schoolers it is even worse.
Common Sense FAIL!
That’s it. I’m moving to Canada. I can’t take these idiots anymore.
LOL. Good luck with that.
Oh god.. I went to school with that idiot.. both the teacher and the kid were asses, but mostly the kid, and just for a can of mountain dew…. pffft. shameful.
…The next person you meet who says that kids are our future, show them this and then punch them in the face.
this guy is the scum of the earth. his parents are worse for letting him take legal action. people like this disgust me. trying to make a profit off their own stupidity. just a horrible person who was raised by horrible people.
you disgust me.
Wow we talked about this in class today. Pretty much everyone agreed this kid is an idiot
oh America, you so crazy
he should’ve warned the teacher too, that he’s too stupid to be in class.
This is why you shouldn’t drink or smoke before you are 21, or do drugs at any time of your life.
I did drugs (cannabis) and smoked (cigars) and drank before I was 17. And I never electrocuted myself. I’m now working on the last part of my ph.D. in mathematics.
Don’t blame drugs. Used responsibly, drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, are not going to mess up your life. This kid was a retard independently of any drugs he may or may not have used.
So you grew up an idiot now that your parents basically abandoned you? Gee… If I hook this wire to my left nut and this wire to my right nut….what will happen? You and your parents need a good ass kicking!!!!
As usual in the US…lets look for the dollar signs. Guess the idiots need a hobby too.
There are people saying that, more than likely, this kid may lose.
Well, unfortunately, he might actually have a chance to win. It is unfortunate that people are gullible enough to fall for ignorance as an excuse!
Just look at the Liebeck vs. McDonald’s. For those who don’t know, it’s the case where a woman sued McDonald’s for being burned by hot coffee.
if memory serves that case was over how hot the coffee was not over her being dumb and holding it between her legs.
she won because she got 3rd degree burns from something that shouldn’t have been that hot
And yet simliar lawsuits in other countries in the world failed as research clearly showed the coffee wasn’t hotter than could/should be expected. in fact most house hold coffee machines produce coffee at about the same temperature as the one she burned herself on.
If you do some research about it you’ll find that even though McDonalds and other companies in the US lowered the temperature after that pretty much every other country in the world still have the same temp on their coffee. The brittish courts threw several similar lawsuits out due to the fact that the coffee wasn’t hotter than it should be, in fact the coffee she burned herself on was pretty much what is considered to be optimal temperature for freshly brewed coffee.
Can I be on the defense team?
What a mf dumbass.
Used to go to that school. We’ve had all kinds there.
Omg! What garbage! We used to electrocute our nipples all the time. Did me no harm.
Please anybody that lives in the area of Dover, NH deliver a punch to face to the kid and his retarded parents.
actually, I think I’ll give them a nice big hug instead
If you don’t know the blowdryer doesn’t go in the bathtub, you get what you deserve.
This is not an accident, it’s natural selection.
I almost fear this ignorance as much as I fear the ignorance of a friend of a friend; who thought the moon and the sun were the same thing.
As a low income person; stop suing people for stupid crap.
I’m going to turn on my Maytag stove. When it gets hot, I’m going to put my face on it. I will burn myself. I will then sue Maytag for not telling me that I’ll get hurt if I put my face on a hot burner.
Amidoinitrite?
only in america1!! too bad it didnt kill his retarded ass…
In nature, being stupid gets you killed. In human society, being stupid gets you rich from lawsuits. This is why the terms “dumb animal” and “human intellect” are both oxymorons.
You are dumb! You are so dumb!
This is maybe a rare case i’m glad to be Canadian!
Well I would call your comment sucktastic, but that’s a portmanteau of “suck” and “fantastic” so you would probably misinterpret what I’m saying.
No, I don’t want a blowjob from you.
i mean..look at his face you can tell that he is a unusless looser
actually he’s quite popular and has a girlfriend soooo be quiet!
Internet one line facts are real amirite?
This should be a headline fail. You can’t “electrocute” your nipples. Electrocute means to kill by electric shock.
Goddamn yanks, YOU are responsible for the dumbing down of the world. Fat, moronic, arrogant, egotistical. And you have the nerve to tell the rest of the world how to live.ou are proof positive that Idiocracy isn’t a movie, it’s a documentary.
@ dogbolter – I’m really sorry you hate Americans so much. However, I have to agree with your reasoning. Fat doesn’t have much to do with it, but moronic, arrogant, and egotistical definitely do. Yes, Americans have the nerve to tell the rest of the world how to live because we, in spite of our moronic, arrogant, and egotistical world views, live better than most other people in the rest of the world. We make more mistakes because we dare more ‘experiments.’ But, as embarrassed as I often am to be an American, it’s better to be one than to envy one or hate one!
In my college we have to sign a contract that we understand the risks of electrocution and it explains every safety precaution we have to make in order for that not to happen.
I am just sad how this kid is stupid and to top it off he wants to profit on his stupidity instead of just burying himself in some hole from embarrassment.
Dumb-ass!
I’m expecting this electrocution case is tossed out of court as frivolous, and he and his parents will have to pay all court costs as a fine. NH is a pretty sensible state, still. Nothing to see here, move on.
KYLE FOUND YOU
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what a stupid little bastard…
Brb weeping forever…
The deal is that the parents just found out that the brain damage means Junior is going to be a burden to them for the rest of their lives. Plus, in these here US of A, it’s always someone else’s fault, never your own. This is the country that puts warning labels on windshield sunshades to tell you to move them before driving off…
What an idiot. This is a classic example of what our society is becoming. People don’t want to accept any responsibility for their own actions, we’ve got lawyers running around that will gladly take any lawsuit so that they can line their own pockets ( even if its a frivilous lawsuit), etc.
I HOPE that this lawsuit gets tossed out of court..although if its in California and it goes to the 9th circuit he’ll probably get award a judgment against the school district and the teacher.
Sad..truly sad>
for your information, the teacher told him he woul d be fine and thats why he’s being sued
The specimen should be sued for being retarded enough to believe it.
I weep for my generation…
I lost hope in the world at like age 5 :/ That’s how dumb I thought our generation was (and I still think the same)
Electrocution is death by electricity! It is an amalgam of ‘electricity’ and ‘execution’. Coined in 1889.
Persons who are electrocuted are dead, by definition.
He was not electrocuted.
His heart stopped beating and technically that would be death by electrocution. He was revived by the teacher doing CPR on him that he is now suing.
I find it extremely difficult to believe that the dangers of electricity were not spelled out in great detail in an “Electrical Trades Class” on the FIRST DAY OF CLASS!
It makes me so proud to live in New Hampshire!
I wonder what he was thinking?
“Oh hey, I think i’ma run a few hundred-thousand volts of electricity through my nipples and see what happens! What could possibly go wrong?”
It makes me ashamed to admit that I live in New Hampshire.
Darwinism Fail – because he lived.
Darwin Was couldn’t foresaw idiots which surviving their own nipple self electrocuting.
I really hope he doesn’t win this case
Someone should slap some sense into him.. oh wait. I could get sued for that..
This happened at my school.
lolz, hey what up. xD
Thank you for not adding a stupid comment
Glad to know that my high school is being celebrated on Failblog.
The actual incident certainly made for an eventful day…
I hope the case gets thrown out and he gets charged for filing a frivolous lawsuit. Embarrassing yourself for not having common sense doesn’t warrant free money. This f*cktard should just hang himself.
how could you say such a thing? You don’t even know him.
We do know he is stupid enough to allow himself to be run with electricity fully knowing its dangerous.
You people don’t know what happened. They make hhis story sound ridiculois when I reality, dont know him. I do, and how do you think these comments make me feel?or him? If he read them. You guys are sick and ridiculous.this happened many months ago and I hate it when I hear people bring it up again. It’s done. It’s over. If you think what happened is giving our school a bad image, just getover yourselves, it doesn’t affect your personal image, ur the one whose ruining it with your stupid comments. Do you know how his family and friends must of felt when the doctor told them he might not survive? You would have been pretty upset if he was ur friend. He’s my brothers best friend and I know him well and I’m sick of hearing all these stupid comments about him. It was hard for his family and mine so lay off.
Obviously it’s not over, if he and his parents are suing the teacher, the school, and the city. And I’m sure it was hard for his family, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are trying to place the blame where it doesn’t belong. It was hard for my family when my grandmother died of lung cancer, but we didn’t sue Marlboro because smoking for 40 years killed her.
Well if you’re sick of the comments I suggest you stop reading them. This is a site dedicated to failure, in this case failure of common sense. If you’re looking for a pity party you came to the wrong site.
Too bad. If he hadn’t been so full of complete and aboslute braindead fail this never would have happened in the first place and we wouldn’t have any reason to call him out on his stupidity. If he had half a brain in his head he never would have done something so stupid in the first place, dare or not, and wouldn’t have had to go to the hospital. Instead he decided to prove he’s not worthy of living on this planet, and it’s a shame that his stupidity didn’t do him in. Some people are just too stupid for life, and your little friend here is one of them.
What a loser. Why couldn’t have electrocuted his balls and junk? That way he could accomplish what will probably turn out to be only purposeful achievement in his life, winning distinction at the Darwin Awards as an “At-risk survivor”. What a moron.
I wish whatever lawyer he gets ends up slapping him upside the head.
I’m proud to defend him, cause he deserves to be defended thanks bye!
Stupid stupid..Too bad he didn’t stay dead.
They should ground his ass.
very punny
Win!
Retard.
Darwin says let him die
this idiot should be gang banged by angry black prisoners for 20 years.
Ah yes. Sue the teacher, since we all know teachers are rolling in dough
Common sense. Sadly, not common.
Wow only the white people
First off, we all know what he did was stupid and everyone in their life time will do something stupid. it doesnt mean you have to rag on someone just for doing something stupid. its his life lit him do what he wants with it. although it is stupid for sewing them. he should have known in the first place not to do it especially over a friggen dare for mountain dew. and he should not be sueing the teacher when the teacher was the one who brought him back to life. although the teacher did not try to stop him from doing it. there is many ways to look at this case. in someways he should get money for the medical bills but his parents shouldnt get money for having to take time off of work if anything kyle should have to pay his parents. he should just be happy he is still alive and NOTHING is wrong with him.
I had two comments on the original article:
“I’m sorry, but if, at age 18, you don’t realise this is dangerous, you should be declared too stupid to live and put down.”
and
“Oh, and “Dubois was critically injured and his legal team claim he has suffered permanent brain damage.”
I think the brain damage was present beforehand.”
I stand by them still.
According to other articles, the teacher actually encouraged him to do it. That’s why there’s a lawsuit.
Quick somebody call the sexual harassment panda, so he can stop all the lawsuits.
Too bad he didn’t have a third nipple up his butt,he would have loved the jolt.
This is actually local news to me, I live 1/2 hr. away from this idiot. When this first happened, a bunch of his classmates said the teacher dared him & offered him a soda if he’d do it. When he woke up from the coma (not kidding) he told police that isn’t what happened at all, that the teacher didn’t know what was happening & it was another student who dared him a soda. So now he & his parents are changing their story & saying the teacher knew the whole time, & that the idiot kid now has brain damage (I’m guessing he had brain damage BEFORE the shock). The teacher resigned by choice when the incident occured, & no charges were pressed on the teacher. I’m anxious to see how this plays out, considering the kid & parents were either lying before, or are lying now. Either way, common sense FAIL on the kid, and FAIL to the whole greedy family for not putting the blame where it belongs, on the kid!
And people wonder why health care costs so much?
LAWYERS, people. The United States has more than any other nation.
Wow this happened in the city right next to mine! Must be from Mass.
Land of the Free and Home of the Brave!
Retard shouldn’t have taken the clamps off…
Ok that’s in my state, and that kid is a real lying idiot. He’s a senior and if your in electricity class they do tell you the dangers, if you are smart enough to pay attention. I’m 11 and i know the dangers of attaching electricity to my body, that kid is 18.
I really don’t see why everyone are bashing this guy. Was he a blithering idiot to hook himself to the powercords? Yes, absolutely. However, this happened in class. When they’re in class, the teacher is responsible for the safety of the students. The whole set up – remove his clothes, attach the cords, plug the power in – took enough time for a teacher to notice that his students are doing something very very wrong and interfere. Considering the fact that the teacher wasn’t there, and wasn’t doing his job – being responsible for his students – this guy and his family have every right to sue the school into bankruptcy.
I am pretty sure u r a fxxcking lawer.
There are limits to that you know. Your theory applies to small kids from age 10~14 but not freakin adults! There is a age where you start to take responsibility for your actions. He is over it.
I agree. It should be article title FAIL!
He gave himself an electric shock, he didn’t electrocute himself. Electrocution is when an electric shock is fatal. If he didn’t die, it’s not electrocution, just a shock. Journalism fail.
Technically since his heart was stopped, wasn’t he electrocuted? Although he is now alive he did indeed die at one point. He gave himself enough of an electric shock via his nipple to electrocute himself.
If only the kid would have died… along with his two friends. The world would be a better place.
He is suing for loss of earnings? Where does he work, idiotz-r-us?!!
You mean McDonalds? Probably.
LOL, typical american kid
In Germany he had null chance, but in America I think he gains 24 millions for his stupidity. What a lucky moron.
I really hope this isn’t a true story, and if it is I hope he’s laughed out of the courtroom. The teacher shouldn’t have had to tell him it was dangerous, his parents should have taught him that a LONG time ago. Aren’t most kids told never to stick things in electrical sockets or take electronics into water because they could be electrocuted and die?
No one warned him that stupidity is dangerous, either.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly nippleclamp connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.
I SING the Body electric;
The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.
Wheels keep turning
Something’s burning
Don’t like it but I guess I’m learning
Stupid frog. All you real New Englanders know what I mean.
i go to the school where that happened, and i swear to god that kid had it coming. when i happened the school went into lock down and when everyone heard what happened i laughed my ass off. i had a friend in the class where it happened the kids dared him, and the teacher got fired and hasnt had a minute of peace since it happened, hes a greedy little pick and so are his parents
and he doesnt have brain damage, hes in my homeroom this year and he was acting like it never happened
Hey kid, you live in New Hampshire! Live Free or Die, obviously this sissypants needs to be sent elsewhere, like Vermont.
Goooo Green Wave! O.o
Only in America.
Yup. In other places they don’t do things halfway:
inquisitr [dot] com/26700/girl-electrocuted-to-death-trying-to-twitter-in-the-bath/
Natural selection. Gotta love it.
if the kid is stupid enough to deliberately electrocute him self maybe his should of stayed stopped.
This is a big pet peeve of mine as well. It drives me crazy when people use electrocuted to describe electric shock. It’s like saying he died yesterday and now he angry so he’s suing his school. That doesn’t make any sense; if he died he couldn’t be angry or sue anybody. If he got electrocuted he would be DEAD!
Even if he did offer a Mountain Dew, the kid is still retarded.
I mean, for a Mountain Dew? He should have held out for a Dr. Pepper, at least.
So for next time dumbass (and only one in the class who DIDN’T already know this…) electricity contains electricity.
i pray his inevitable death-by-stupidity winds up on youtube. I really do.
This falls under common sense. If he can’t tell that this was dangerous then the teacher’s lawyer should be allowed to donkey punch him as a basic judgment test. If the kid says no then he has good judgment, case dismissed.
I know it completly out of place but if you think of him as mess, the world as PC and 2012 as format then deep inside you hope it happens.
Just out of curiosity, does the above comment make any sense to anyone other than Dzonatan?
I knew this was NH before I even started reading the article…. holy crap this hurts my brain.
my scrollbar should be like 2 pixels tall at this point
Sh!t,
You’re Right…
I actually know idiots like this. It’s one of the reasons I’m so glad I’m almost done with high school.
Sadly, though, high school is never done with you.
I like how the first thing they get out of the way is that he’s American. As if its not obvious.
What a douchebag!
Darwinism… thats all
Actually, they are not suing because the student was not warned about the dangers, there have been statements from various students that the teacher instigated the event and even offered the student a soda for putting the clips on himself, also there were instances in the classroom where the teacher had kids hold hands and would shock one person and have the wave travel through everyone–therefore creating an environment where students felt that it was not dangerous to do these things.
“An American…”
duuude this kid was at my school last yer!
the news forgot to mention it was a bet over a bottle of mountain dew.
that was my highschool. Kid has always been a retard.