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Teenager electrocuted while 'listening' to railway track
Mirror UK ^ | 1-22-14 | Andy Rudd

Posted on 01/22/2014 2:28:16 PM PST by kingattax

Tragic teen Kanwel Butt was electrocuted while 'listening' to the railway track to see if his delayed train was coming.

The 17-year-old put his ear to the live rail and was killed instantly.

An inquest today heard how the teenager had moved to England from Pakistan just months earlier and was making his first solo train journey.

In Pakistan people sometimes listen to rails, which are not live, to see if a train is coming.

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: music; rail; teens
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To: tacticalogic

Well played.


21 posted on 01/22/2014 2:48:44 PM PST by Gamecock (If you like your constitution, you can keep your constitution. Period. (M.S.))
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To: newnhdad

A nominee, at least.


22 posted on 01/22/2014 2:48:53 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: kingattax

At least he had the good sense not to pee on it.


23 posted on 01/22/2014 2:49:23 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: kingattax

This young man seems to be the Butt of some jokes.


24 posted on 01/22/2014 2:49:47 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: kingattax

That’s what happens when you let the 7th century into the 21st.


25 posted on 01/22/2014 2:49:54 PM PST by Regulator
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To: dfwgator

Current news
Ohm my!
It Hertz
Ample stupidity
He was Volted off the island


26 posted on 01/22/2014 2:55:39 PM PST by Pajama Blogger
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To: kingattax
Seems like people in that part of the world don't respect electricity, as demonstrated in this GRAPHIC VIDEO.
27 posted on 01/22/2014 2:56:46 PM PST by Gamecock (If you like your constitution, you can keep your constitution. Period. (M.S.))
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To: tacticalogic
Maybe this album


28 posted on 01/22/2014 2:57:06 PM PST by xp38
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To: kingattax

Expect signs in Urdu warning of the 3rd rail.


29 posted on 01/22/2014 2:58:05 PM PST by csvset
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To: kingattax

I am not going to make fun of this poor kid’s death. He was working and trying to better himself in a new country. Ignorance is not stupidity and his death is a tragedy.


30 posted on 01/22/2014 2:59:53 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Lots of folks here think this kid deserved what he got because he’s a Pak and “ignorance is no excuse”.


31 posted on 01/22/2014 3:04:06 PM PST by Ribeye (Protective headwear courtesy of Reynolds Aluminum Products- Extra-cranial RF Suppression Division)
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To: Ribeye

By the way, I’m not one of those people. I feel for the kid and his family.


32 posted on 01/22/2014 3:05:25 PM PST by Ribeye (Protective headwear courtesy of Reynolds Aluminum Products- Extra-cranial RF Suppression Division)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Ditto.


33 posted on 01/22/2014 3:06:53 PM PST by DB
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To: Ken H
"pee on rails"
"that really burns", it's just another way to die,
uninformed about modern technology.

34 posted on 01/22/2014 3:27:08 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: xp38

That’s the best AC/DC album, IMHO.


35 posted on 01/22/2014 3:30:11 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Regulator

More like 19th instead of 7th.


36 posted on 01/22/2014 3:33:19 PM PST by NathanR
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To: kingattax

Teen. There’s a good chance that he was not able to reproduce yet. So one more evolutionary dead end out of the gene pool.


37 posted on 01/22/2014 3:37:37 PM PST by IronJack
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To: kingattax

In India, the juice is on top.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI6btIQdu5U


38 posted on 01/22/2014 3:37:59 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: NathanR

You’re being charitable.

I tend to think of all of The Caliphate as being 1300 years behind the times. Maybe more, since they were regressive even then.


39 posted on 01/22/2014 3:40:33 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Libloather
What did he hear?

Must have been shocking, whatever it was.

Now admit it, as a straight man, you sat that up for all the wannabe comedians here (including me), didn't you?

I mean "straight man", as in a comedic duo of course.

40 posted on 01/22/2014 3:51:35 PM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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