Some of us just hate it when the alarm rings in the mornings. Besides, who wants to be woken up rudely from peaceful slumber and blissful dreams, right? One man’s “alarm” woke him up so violently, he thought he would never again see the light of day.
Wiley Day, a 32-year-old from Huntsville, Alabama experienced the worst wake-up call in the world when his charging iPhone 7 pumped out about 110 volts of electricity through his body while he was deep in dreamland.
Day plugged his iPhone 7 into an extension cord so he could scroll through his social media accounts before falling asleep.
He told WAAY-TV: "My necklace became a conductor. It was the worst alarm clock you could ever have in life."
He pulls the scorching necklace from his skin, just as his niece ran into his room.
In that exact moment, Day remembered thinking to himself:
“This is how you die.”
His t-shirt nearly caught on fire.
I could taste burnt wire in my mouth. My hand still has the chain print on it.
but has still sustained horrific burns to his neck, chest and hand as well as torn tissue in his left shoulder after the electricity exited his body.
He is lucky to be alive.
He never thought twice about the accessory purchase since so many other people used them to charge their devices.
cheap and uncertified extension cords cause around 4,700 fires annually that result in 50 deaths, 280 injuries each year.
I know God saved me because my situation was one in a million.
But we are all so plugged in all the time I just can’t help but think.
