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Originally Posted by Lycoming
Sometimes you have to chuckle at other's misfortune. From the Daily Telegraph, today's date.
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, Dave Pimentel, the Grays Harbor County sheriff's deputy, told KXRO-AM radio on Monday.
However, family members found 50-year-old Messenger electrocuted when they arrived.
Mr Pimentel said 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.
Mr Pimentel said there would be an autopsy, but burn marks indicated the way the electricity travelled through Messenger's body.
Apart from 12000 volts, what else went through his mind as he stood there?
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This should qualify him for a Darwin Award.