can someone explain the physics behind why a toaster in the bath could pass electricity through someone in the bath?

Question

Tried to read it on a sub about engineering but they were using a lot of jargon

In: Engineering

Answer 1

It’s MOSTLY comic book science in scary movies.
Here’s an engineering test: put voltmeter probes in the water, say, couple of feet apart like a human would take up.
Now put the toaster in the water and plug it in.
MOST of the current goes through the water itself (to the drain outlet which is a ‘grounded’ pipe) and the voltmeter will register very little.