[PeaceBeWithYou]

Talk about self-zottification.

Salt water conducts electricity folks, so watch were you wiz.

[goose1]

One weenie roast.

[FreedomPoster]

As viewers of Ren and Stimpy have already learned,

"Don't whiz on the electric fence!"

[11th Earl of Mar]

"SMOKIN!!!!!!!!"

[MetalHeadConservative35]

A THAI man with a prosthetic leg was electrocuted when he urinated near a power pole on the side of a highway in Bangkok

reminds me of old chinese proverb: man who go through airport turnstile sideways going to bangkok..(bangkok is what triggered it in my mind)

[boris]

When I was a kid I saw a headline in the Baltimore Sun: "Man Pushes Crosswalk Button and Dog's Lights Go Out."

Again, a rainstorm. Master pushes the button. Somehow the dog became electrif(r)ied via a short. The article said the dog bit him once and died.

--Boris

[Jonx6]

ping

[PeterPrinciple]

How many of us peed on the electric fence when we were a kid????

[cyborg]

This is not FR. There aren't any pics!!!!! Not even Viking hamster zot pics...

[HighWheeler]

"...probably urinated on an uncovered ground line near the pole.."

No way.

He would HAVE to be peeing on the power side, while his body acted as the grounding side.

It's incredible how most of the world has no idea about safety, cleanliness, disease prevention, or failure modes.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Hold muh....

um...

ewww...

never mind.

[fnord]

I don't know what it is Doc, but I feel a burning sensation when I urinate ...

[Sir Charles]

Morning tide, the young man died.....

[reagan_fanatic]

Must have really had to go. Gives new meaning to the phrase 'hollow leg'

[doug from upland]

Great, let's make fun of a 27-year-old who died, everyone. He didn't die doing something evil. He is not Hillary, Sinkmaster, Carville, Begala, Conason, McAuliffe, etc. God rest his soul.

[Corin Stormhands]

Heed this warning...

[Elsie]

A THAI man with a prosthetic leg was electrocuted when he urinated near a power pole on the side of a highway in Bangkok.

I served 18 months in Thailand, and I can tell you that they usually don't even get CLOSE to a 'pole' (or anything else to hide a bit) when Nature calls: just pull over and do your business!

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Is that a lightning rod or are you just glad to see me?

[Petronski]

The dude got zotted, 'Tommyboy' style. LOL

"Why does it burn when I pee?"

[Freedom4US]

Possibly a UL...

---

This story was related by Pat Routledge of Winnepeg, ONT about an unusual
telephone service call he handled while living in England.

It is common practice in England to signal a telephone subscriber by
signaling with 90 volts across one side of the two wire circuit and ground
(earth in England). When the subscriber answers the phone, it switches to
the two wire circuit for the conversation. This method allows two parties
on the same line to be signalled without disturbing each other.

This particular subscriber, an elderly lady with several pets, called to
say that her telephone failed to ring when her friends called and that on
the few occasions when it did manage to ring her dog always barked first.
Torn between curiosity to see this psychic dog and a realization that
standard service techniques might not suffice in this case, Pat proceeded
to the scene. Climbing a nearby telephone pole and hooking in his test
set, he dialed the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring. He tried
again. The dog barked loudly, followed by a ringing telephone. Climbing
down from the pole, Pat found:

a. Dog was tied to the telephone system's ground post via an iron
chain and collar
b. Dog was receiving 90 volts of signalling current
c. After several jolts, the dog was urinating on ground and barking
d. Wet ground now conducted and phone rang.