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-Short Attention Span Theater-

Today's Darwin Candidate

2010-03-01

Authorities believe a Washington man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a car crash.

Grays Harbor County sheriff's Deputy Dave Pimentel (PIM'-en-tel) said Monday 50-year-old 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.

However, family members found Messenger electrocuted when they arrived.

Pimentel says 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.

Pimentel says there will be an autopsy but burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through Messenger's body.

Posted by:Frank G

#7 I can personally testify to the "don't whiz on the electric fence thing" . Broken stream? depends on the voltage in the line he knocked down.

Posted by: notascrename 2010-03-01 21:42

#6 I can sadly tell you form 1st hand experience that a stream of urine IS a conductor. I hit a cattle fence while taking a leak one night when I was in high school. I can definitely assure you that there was a conduction of electrical current.

Posted by: abu do you love 2010-03-01 21:41

#5 More likely he just blundered into the live wire while stumbling around

with his d*ck?

Posted by: Frank G 2010-03-01 21:16

#4 More likely he just blundered into the live wire while stumbling around. The Mythbuster segment was pretty damned convincing on the science of "don't whiz on the electric fence".

Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-03-01 20:45

#3 "A urine stream is not continuous and therefore could not possibly serve as a conductor."

I think it may be continuous if he had a healthy prostate and he was drinking beer. He did hit the power pole, but in his defense, he honked first.

Posted by: penguin 2010-03-01 20:03

#2 tell that to Messenger's junk

Posted by: Frank G 2010-03-01 19:59

#1 Sorry but I think this one got MythBusted. What's the difference between this and the pissing on the 3rd rail myth that they busted years ago? A urine stream is not continuous and therefore could not possibly serve as a conductor.

Posted by: Alanc 2010-03-01 19:52

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