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Man Dies After Peeing On ā€˜Lā€™ Tracks In Evanston
CBS Chicago ^ | 4/23/12 | CBS Chicago

Posted on 04/23/2012 2:14:19 PM PDT by Lmo56

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To: null and void

LOL ping...............


21 posted on 04/23/2012 2:38:08 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: Lmo56
Family game night could have gone a long way towards preventing this tragedy.


22 posted on 04/23/2012 2:38:22 PM PDT by Caipirabob (I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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To: Lmo56

Two lessons:

(1) Diesel/coal driven trains were safer.
(2) It’s best to pee in discontinuous spurts under all circumstances.


23 posted on 04/23/2012 2:38:43 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Lmo56

This is shocking news!


24 posted on 04/23/2012 2:39:52 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: allmendream
Missed it by that much...


25 posted on 04/23/2012 2:40:59 PM PDT by Caipirabob (I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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To: Michigan Bowhunter

Any residual effects you’d care to share with us, Sparky?


26 posted on 04/23/2012 2:43:00 PM PDT by Lady Lucky (Retro Sark...because you just never know when you'll have needed a sark tag.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Apparently he missed the sign.
 
 
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27 posted on 04/23/2012 2:44:09 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Too bad he's dead. But he still can get the consolation prize.
 

 
 
Maybe he can be buried in it.


28 posted on 04/23/2012 2:45:57 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: DJ MacWoW

I’m afraid to ask why you thought of me first...


29 posted on 04/23/2012 2:50:05 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1189 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: Revolting cat!

“Regular piss doesn’t carry electrical current”

Conductivity is a non-linear function of electrolyte concentration in solutions and could be used as an indirect method. The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of urine conductivity measurement, which is a simple, cheap and not time consuming method, in the evaluation of renal functions. Seventy-two patients whose primary diseases were not taken into consideration were enrolled in this study. First morning urine specimens were obtained from all the patients and evaluated for osmolality, conductivity, pH, specific gravity, protein, creatinine, urea, uric acid, glucose, sodium, potassium, chloride, inorganic phosphate and calcium levels. There was a significant positive relation between osmolality and creatinine, urea, sodium, potassium, chloride, inorganic phosphate, uric acid, conductivity and specific gravity. Conductivity was also determined to be positively related to osmolality (r: 0.390, p < 0.01), sodium (r: 0.326, p < 0.01) and uric acid (r: 0.345, p < 0.01). The patients were grouped as those with a urine osmolality of less or more than 290 m Osm/kg. H2O (group A and B respectively). Urine conductivity was 6.84 +/- 5.35 (0.16-23.2) mScm-1 in group A and 10.6 +/- 5.25 (0.12-192) mScm-1 in group B. The difference was statistically significant (p = 0.005). When the spectrum of conductivity values were evaluated separately in each group, 74% of the patients in group A and 33.9% of the patients in group B were determined to have a conductivity level of less than 7.338 mScm-1. In conclusion, urine conductivity has a positive relation with osmolality. In addition, while osmolality and specific gravity are effected by many non-electrolyte molecules, conductivity is only related to sodium and uric acid concentrations. In addition, urine osmolality and conductivity levels could be used to interpret the concentration of uncharged glucose molecules. These results suggest that conductivity could be used as a parameter in routine urinalysis.


30 posted on 04/23/2012 2:50:56 PM PDT by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: Lmo56

There’s a Mythbusters episode that covers this... what got this guy was physically coming into contact with the 3rd rail when he fell on it....


31 posted on 04/23/2012 2:53:07 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmitt. | FR Class of 1998 |)
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To: Lmo56

What a horrible way to go. To be honest, I’d already intended to say that, and THEN realized what an awful joke that could be. Oops.


32 posted on 04/23/2012 2:56:46 PM PDT by sayuncledave (et Verbum caro factum est (And the Word was made flesh))
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To: hattend

I’ve actually done this.

Many years ago, as a high school kid in a rural area. Had to go, walked up to a thicket of underbrush that completely concealed a live cattle fence. It was also quite damp underfoot, as it had recently rained.

I’m standing there happily doing my thing, when every muscle in my body seized up hard. Then it stopped, and started again. I got hit twice before it dawned on my that there was a cattle fence in there. Between pulses of current, I turned away from it. The direction I approached it from, there was no way to see it or any of the warning markers that I found afterward. Where I was, it was totally hidden from view.

I don’t know what ‘Mythbusters’ said about them, but peeing on a cattle fence is just about what you’d expect- a thoroughly unpleasant experience.


33 posted on 04/23/2012 2:59:31 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Lmo56

RIP.


34 posted on 04/23/2012 2:59:56 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: null and void
It might be better not to...................


35 posted on 04/23/2012 3:01:30 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

He should have minded his P’s and Q’s.


36 posted on 04/23/2012 3:01:43 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Keith in Iowa

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.


37 posted on 04/23/2012 3:02:13 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: Lmo56
I think the two tracks on the left are the "third rail", don't you?


38 posted on 04/23/2012 3:02:27 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I reckon this takes ‘pissing on the electric fence’ to a whole other level!


39 posted on 04/23/2012 3:06:11 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Riley
don’t know what ‘Mythbusters’ said about them, but peeing on a cattle fence is just about what you’d expect- a thoroughly unpleasant experience.

They said it all depends. Normally, the stream will not be continuous since it breaks up into droplets, and hence will not provide a conductive path.

40 posted on 04/23/2012 3:06:20 PM PDT by dr_lew
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