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The Associated Press:

MONTESANO, Wash. An Elma man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a one-car crash near Montesano.

Grays Harbor County sheriff's Deputy Dave Pimentel (PIM'-en-tel) said Monday that 50-year-old Roy Messenger was not seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday night and called a relative to pull his car out of the ditch.

When family members arrived they found Messenger electrocuted. Pimentel says Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside ditch but didn't see the live wire.

Pimentel says there will be an autopsy but burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through the body. :shock:

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Made to Government Specs:
1) Measured with a micrometer.
2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

I though mythbusters proved urinating on the 3rd rail in some mass transit systems did not pose an electrocution hazard. Wouldn't that go for power lines as well?

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Interoperability is an attitude, not a technology.

"burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through the body."

Maybe the power line has a bit more bite :roll:

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" SILENCE IS CONSENT "

Made to Government Specs:
1) Measured with a micrometer.
2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

I only have one word for that -- ouch.

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Interoperability is an attitude, not a technology.

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Interoperability is an attitude, not a technology.

Possibly higher blood alcohol levels are more conductive :beer: :beer: :beer:

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" SILENCE IS CONSENT "

Made to Government Specs:
1) Measured with a micrometer.
2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

This is shocking.

Watt's the problem here- don't you folks have the capacitance for sympathy? Late on a Faraday night, and all this guy wanted was to get ohm.

One can only hope the police finish up this investigation quickly and with no impedance, and anyone who may have been at fault, besides the deceased, is charged, probably in circuit court.

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President-in-Exile, Seattle Area Radio Communications And Scanner Traffic Intercept Crew (SARCASTIC)
Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
Bunnery definition for the under-fives

Who plugged you in and turned you on? :D

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" SILENCE IS CONSENT "

Made to Government Specs:
1) Measured with a micrometer.
2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com

its not april yet, so I can only assume this isnt a fools day joke.

someone needs to put that in to leno

I am speechless

@Wilrobnson very clever :)

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DE K7MHI

Reminds me of a girlfriend I had one time...

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It's been a long day, and I needed an outlet.

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President-in-Exile, Seattle Area Radio Communications And Scanner Traffic Intercept Crew (SARCASTIC)
Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
Bunnery definition for the under-fives

There once was a man from Elma.......

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Whatever.....

I know a guy that pee'd on a cattle fence hotwire once. He crosses the street to the other side when he walks by that fence these days... :shock:

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"A well regulated breakfast, being necessary to the healthy start of the day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed."

Looking back on my entry above, I feel an explanation for my conduct is in order.

I had a surge of creativity, and I was all amped up on coffee and andrenalin (just came home from a relay race). The boy was watching Transformers in the background, the wife was yakking, and I just had kind of a brownout. Nothing serious, just a phase I was going through.

Took out my angst on the web as opposed to ending up in a cell with a charge of....well, battery.

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President-in-Exile, Seattle Area Radio Communications And Scanner Traffic Intercept Crew (SARCASTIC)
Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
Bunnery definition for the under-fives

Father to son after putting his finger in the light socket; "you're grounded!" :mrgreen: