Wash. man electrocuted by urinating on power line

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MONTESANO, Wash. (AP) - 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.
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Wash. man electrocuted by urinating on power line
 
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That's an old Darwin award winner, isn't it?

The guy who climbed to the top of one of those high-tension power line towers with a 6 pack of beer, drank a few, needed to piss, and the electricity arced to the urine stream and up his firehose, blowing him off the tower and charring him nicely?
 
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my favorite darwin award was the joker that was changing a light bulb on a high rise balcony in a roller chair
 
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Almost as bad as trying to mow a lake with an electric lawnmower.
 
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Volwark said:
Almost as bad as trying to mow a lake with an electric lawnmower.
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Or this...

Some apparent sexual experimentation landed a woman in a hospital with injuries tough to imagine and even more difficult to forget.

The 27-year-old woman was injured in an incident involving a sex toy attached to a saber saw blade.

The man who called 911 about the incident admitted attaching the sex toy to the saw and then using the high-powered, homemade device on his partner.

The saw cut through the plastic toy and wounded the woman. The injuries were severe enough for medevac, but the woman's condition at this time is unknown.
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Ouchies.
 
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mythbusters says this can't work. urine stream isn't consistant enough
 
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Looks like this man..... just pissed his life away..


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droski said:
mythbusters says this can't work. urine stream isn't consistant enough
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They actually revisited that myth with Adam actually pissing on a low voltage wire. It is possible.


correction it was the electric fence that was confirmed. 3rd rail is still busted.
SPINOFF: Urinating on an electric fence can cause electrocution. (From Episode 3)
confirmed
Upon retesting the myth on an electric fence it was found to be confirmed, but the rail was still Busted. Distance was the factor, as the urine stream breaks up less at the close range needed for urinating on the fence than urinating on the third rail, thus ensuring a direct line of current between ones body and the electrical source.
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