Teen electrocuted while salvaging parts from a computer

Yeah, that was my (poorly worded) point.

You didn't abandon anything, I was trying , (apparently unsuccessfully), to reinforce your comment.

I believe the pulse is taken on the "BUH", not the "bump". I should know this, what with having a toy heart valve and all that.

Sad to hear of this. But to address the lawsuit comment, there are ALWAYS warning stickers, they were obviously ignored here.

Working with electronics in my life I have learned a few times that I dont like to be shocked. I always push the power button after unplugging the device. Additionally before I go near any high voltage caps I short the leads with a screw driver (even after the button push I still sometimes get sparks)

Its a shame that this kid didn't get the chance to learn a lesson here like I did so many times. Rest in piece dude.

You know it is, danger attracts stupidity

Be careful when opening power supplies I have nearly killed my self with one

Well, I think he was extremely unlucky.
I'm a teenager which likes to reassemble/repair computers and I got shocked by mains voltage (in my country (the Czech Republic) the mains voltage is 230V) a few times (like 2 or 3) and I'm still alive).... I also got shocked by a charged capacitor from a computer power supply once. It gave me a really nasty shock and since then I'm extremely careful when I do anything with voltages higher than 50 volts.....
It's extremely unlikely that a shock from a capacitor charged to mains voltage will kill you. I know several people who got shocked by mains voltage or even by higher voltages and they're still alive. However, if you do something with voltages higher than let's say 50 volts, you should be extremely careful. Most likely it will only shock you, but still please be careful. When I take apart computer power supplies, I always short the capacitors using an insulated wire before I touch anything.

To those people who say they drain the ramaining power by pushing the power button. This will only drain the low voltage secondary side after the main chopper. It WILL NOT drain the power from the dangerous high voltage caps in the primary mains side of the psu. Please be careful.

There exists no other solution than to ban all computer power supplies. Since it was the power supply that killed this person, computers should not be allowed to be sold with such instruments of death.

Nonsense. Power supplies don't kill people, electricity does. Face it, if you took away their power supplies, they'd just find another way to kill themselves. For example, putting one end of an extension cord into the wall, and the other end......

This article kinda scares me, because I remember I was only 11 when I gutted my first PC and had NO IDEA to avoid the power supply like that even after unplugging it.

13 years later, I know better, but thankfully I never learned the hard way like this poor fella

Yup , also capacitors release their charge in seconds so unless he touched a 2000V capacitor im not sure if he could get electrical burns which means that whatever he touched it had a long powerful flow of 70+ V and some high amps not a simple burst ( though even a burst can kill )

Personally I don't believe the story being told to us. Something about the burns don't make since. I've been zapped by wall current many times. I've been zapped by small devices that stored several hundred volts. The hardest I have ever been jolted was by an automobile coil. The only time I have ever been burned by electricity was from a high powered CB antenna, pushing well over 1000 Watts of signal. I don't see a power supply reproducing these conditions un-plugged or otherwise, so I am inclined to agree with the guest comment.