To all the “I never get in the shower without letting it run first” people, I’m sure we’ve all had the experience of water temperature changing rapidly while you’re showering because the reservoirs aren’t setup correctly. Idk if that’s what happened to this man, but if they’re keeping water that hot in the boiler it’s not impossible.
I'm sure we've also all been in some bathrooms where you can't grasp the handle without getting in first lol. We have shower and a big bath together and you have to go in to turn the faucet on.
The water would slowly start to get hotter if that was the case it would just flip from warm to boiling before he could get out or turn the water off. Also the article literally says that's not wasn't the case
Yeah no if you're used to water taking time to heat up while running or you put it on a neutral setting to adjust to your preference by feel people definitely get in before "checking"
I have to assume a lot of people get in, and then adjust their water to the desired temp before switching it over to the shower setting. But clearly the dude mentioned in the video didn't. 😂
I’m suspecting you guys don’t take much showers. It’s called the cold water gets routed somewhere else and you get pure hot or cold water. The hotels water heater is probably a lot hotter than a households
@@Rohit-jv7nl I feel like it's pretty natural to realize he'd still get burned if he checked it and it was hot, you absolute room temperature IQ individual.
The defence tried to argue that as Alex wasn’t a guest, he wasn’t owed a duty of care. This won’t work in court. Motels have a duty of care to all people on their premises. Same goes for workers and so on.
This almost happened to me in my dorm a couple years back. One of our communal showers was freezing cold and turning the temp up even slightly turned the water into napalm. I was in there for a few seconds and skin was peeling off my entire upper back
He didn’t stay at the hotel, he checked into his room and had a shower then had to stay the next few months in hospital, that’s crazy but lawyers be taking some wacky pills
@@gabe6068 I mean, it's not a common occurrence but this old fellow literally died when he could've checked the water temp so in a sense it is dangerous not to check
Scalding water is no joke! I burned my hand when I was 15 because our water heater had a bad temperature lever. I missed 3 weeks of school and needed pain meds because of the pain. Completely healed and my hand doesn't have feeling in certain parts 🥲
@@_Kuma_ To be fair most RU-vidrs (partnership aside) don't actually use their products. So the fact Charlie actually uses Opera GX very often outside of brand deals is something of note
I'm guessing the guy was just very tired. When I flied international I stunk like all hell but I was also so fucking tired I just stuck myself into the shower without really thinking about it just to get it over with
A little known fact, hot water can actually knock you out. I made that mistake with a shower, I got in and ii was too hot but didn't immediately get out. It causes your blood vessels to dilate reducing your blood pressure so much the blood flow to your brain is interrupted and you immediately feel sick then you go down. If you are in the shower and you start to suddenly feel like you want to be sick sit down. I tried to get out, big mistake, I fell down like a sack of sh't and nutted the toilet. Woke up with blood pissing out my face. Then I had to get the superglue out and stick the cut on my jaw back together, fun times. Could have been worse I guess.
@@Brayden-Wyatt me dad uses electrical tape to cover his cuts, I've used scotch tape and papertowel, sometimes you just gotta use what you have, even if it isn't all that good.
fandango is such an usless middle man lol if there ever is a problem too they just make it 100x harder to refund than if you just went to the theater to buy the tickets.
I usually stand away from the shower when turning it on because I don't like cold water suddenly hitting me. After hearing what happened to that old dude, now I've got even more motivation to stand away from the damn shower as its starting. Yikes.
Just saying that if you don’t wait outside the shower to make sure the temperature is right, especially an unfamiliar shower cause all of them adjust temperatures differently, then you were probably gonna get taken out by something equally avoidable in the future anyway
Some old water heaters? (know them as boilers) can make water hot enough to make chicken broth,bathroom becomes a literal sauna and the moment you turn the cold water on it just helps for a little bit and then goes back to magma or fully cold.
this actually almost happened to me the first time i took a shower after getting my hot water tank replaced a couple years ago. thankfully i only burnt my hand/wrist and foot/ankle because i was in the process of stepping into the shower.
Always feel the water before having a shower, so it's the right temperature for you. Adjust the temperature and feel the water again, just in case.(if neccessary)
The elderly dude was likely disabled, so getting into a wet shower is dangerous. Thats why the guy preloaded himself into it. The legal issue lies in the question "was it expected by the client that the shower would be 30 degrees hotter than code (in my area)"?
So that’s exactly how my grandaunt died. She was unable to move or speak in her later years and she was found dead in the shower from whole body burns.
I wonder if there is a heat regulator dysfunction -or maybe it’s cheaper to allow scalding water to kick in quickly so it’s not wasted while people wait for 10 minutes to get in? I dunno.🤷🏻 I stayed at a nice hotel in France. Quite old. After checking the water temp, I got in. After only a few minutes, the pressure and temperature changed a LOT. It happened a few times during the shower. A similar thing happened at an AirBNB in the southwest U.S. oh, that poor man.
i lived in an apartment that was run the fuck down. i remember complaining often about the shower which had something wrong with it. the water would randomly go to the hottest temp and then the coldest temp, oscillating between the two temps. so id be washing my hair and then get boiling hot water dumped on me. landlord of course never did anything.
Ive been to a lot of hotels, some of them have freezing "hot" water to lava hot water. But to be fair, who turns on the shower ON themselves? Who doesn't turn the shower on, wait a minute or two, then put your hand in to test the temperature?
I never get in the shower without checking the temp first but if he was 76 he might have to shower with a showerchair. He'd be sitting down without much mobility while the water just scalds the shit out of him. That's a horrible way to go.
That's crazy, though. How strong was the stream to have "knocked him down to the floor"? 65.5°C is hot, but I feel like you would have still been able to get out of the water within seconds. The paragraph later mentions a "tub", so presumably he slipped in a bathtub? Did he hit his head or something? Like, this just sounds like a completely insane story.
Average water heater temp is 125° so 150° isn’t that hot and for Charlie who asked… the water gets that hot because it is heated by an electric element or gas heat lol
Iv heard a story in a prison guards used to torture prisoners lock them in a shower either hot or cold turned on all the way, one time they turned on the hot water and forgot about the bloke he was practically moosh
