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2010/03/02 21:04:27
Subject: Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
MONTESANO, WA -- Authorities believe a Washington man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a car crash.
Grays Harbor County sheriff's Deputy Dave Pimentel (PIM'-en-tel) said Monday 50-year-old Roy Messenger was not seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday and called a relative to pull his car from a ditch. However, family members found Messenger electrocuted when they arrived.
Pimentel says Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside ditch but didn't see the live wire. The urine stream likely served as a conductor, allowing the electricity to reach his body.
Pimentel says there will be an autopsy but burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through Messenger's body.
Well, far as i remember seen stuff like this on Mythbusters. They prooved you couldn't get electrocuted unless you were 10 cm away or so.
However, if he really did get electrocuted, he must've had a lot of beer (or he was pissing copper cables ). Anyway, i'll classify it among top 5 most stupid deaths
Could you be there
'cause I'm the one who waits for you
Or are you unforgiven too?
2010/03/02 21:15:47
Subject: Re:Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
LOLZ! That would have to be one of the most embarassing ways to die. Now I won't feel so bad if i get mauled by my attack crows. The song "ride the lightning" by Metallica comes to my mind for some reason.
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2010/03/02 21:17:18
Subject: Re:Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
aka_tizz wrote:Well, far as i remember seen stuff like this on Mythbusters. They prooved you couldn't get electrocuted unless you were 10 cm away or so.
However, if he really did get electrocuted, he must've had a lot of beer (or he was pissing copper cables ). Anyway, i'll classify it among top 5 most stupid deaths
Yea they disproved it as the flow of. . . .liquid is broken as it travels. They did not use a human however. Its possibly that that other factors besides what they tested are involved such as power of the current or body parts and such. I am sure different people have different streams.
2010/03/02 21:22:19
Subject: Re:Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
I think they used an electrified beam to simulate the fence. It was much easier to hit a steel beam than a wire. But I have not seen that episode in awhile.
2010/03/02 21:24:18
Subject: Re:Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
2010/03/02 21:33:16
Subject: Re:Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
aka_tizz wrote:Well, far as i remember seen stuff like this on Mythbusters. They prooved you couldn't get electrocuted unless you were 10 cm away or so.
However, if he really did get electrocuted, he must've had a lot of beer (or he was pissing copper cables ). Anyway, i'll classify it among top 5 most stupid deaths
Yea they disproved it as the flow of. . . .liquid is broken as it travels. They did not use a human however. Its possibly that that other factors besides what they tested are involved such as power of the current or body parts and such. I am sure different people have different streams.
Oh yes they did. In the end Adam pissed on it and got zapped, but it was from like 10 cm and it was an electrified fence
barlio wrote:What a 'Shocking' way to die.
I nearly pissed my own pants off laughing at this one
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Could you be there
'cause I'm the one who waits for you
Or are you unforgiven too?
2010/03/02 21:47:34
Subject: Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
2010/03/02 22:14:38
Subject: Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
aka_tizz wrote:Well, far as i remember seen stuff like this on Mythbusters. They prooved you couldn't get electrocuted unless you were 10 cm away or so.
However, if he really did get electrocuted, he must've had a lot of beer (or he was pissing copper cables ). Anyway, i'll classify it among top 5 most stupid deaths
That was the third rail of a train track.
Not a power line.
2010/03/02 22:19:54
Subject: Re:Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
This sort of thing is not funny at all, in fact it makes me shudder a little. I can't help visualizing his little man all burnt and burst like an exploding cigar.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
2010/03/02 22:36:06
Subject: Re:Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
warpcrafter wrote:This sort of thing is not funny at all, in fact it makes me shudder a little. I can't help visualizing his little man all burnt and burst like an exploding cigar.
Thank you for that absolutely horrifying mental image.
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2010/03/02 22:37:43
Subject: Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
In the dark future, there are skulls for everyone. But only the bad guys get spikes. And rivets for all, apparently welding was lost in the Dark Age of Technology. -from C.Borer
2010/03/02 22:55:39
Subject: Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
I laughed. I've seen much worse, usually involving stupidity.
Train 'surfers' who hit the overhead lines - zap!.
Train surfers who don't duck when entering a tunnel.
Numb nuts who attempt to steal the copper grounding straps for scrap metal and get electrocuted - also shorting out the signals/switchpoints so that the section of track is shut down and crews have to be sent out to reset them, and find the bodies.
As for wizzing on an electric fence. It's not something you do twice (unless you like it? )
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
2010/03/02 23:29:25
Subject: Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
Kilkrazy wrote:When I was much younger than I am now, my parents had a new puppy and a slide projector which had an electric wire with a junction plug in the middle.
One day we were showing slides and the puppy, not being house trained yet, widdled on the junction.
There was a flash and bang. The projector shut off and the puppy bolted out the door as fast as he could go.
He didn't dare go near a wire on the floor for months afterwards.
My beagle chewed through a wire and near electrocuted herself when she was a few months old. She still has a scar on the inside of her mouth and a bald patch on her chest where the current went through.
18 months later and she's still an annoying , but I loevs her anyway!
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2010/03/03 14:40:51
Subject: Man electrocuted by urinating on power line
I amp perfectly calm, given current circuitstances. Wire you charging me with poor conduct, when Cheese is the one generating friction? (That kid should plug his mouth before he gets grounded.)
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
). Anyway, i'll classify it among top 5 most stupid deaths
Could you be there
, but I loevs her anyway!
