I sort of doubt that story because the stream of urine is not a laminar flow and the voltage is not high enough to arc between droplets. More likely he stumbled and fell while he was urinating.
I can believe it because it happened to me - not from the third rail and I was not killed. But, I once pee'ed on my Grandfather's electric fence on his farm. You talk about a tingle up the, well, you know....
26 posted on 05/27/2010 3:19:43 AM PDT by don-o
(My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal texted me at 0330 on 2/3/10: AMERICA!)