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disgoftunwells July 24th 08 07:36 PM

Man electrocuted after urinating on track
 
On 22 Jul, 17:17, wrote:
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article...=229490&in_pag...

ISTR an episode of "Mythbusters" that suggested this wasn't possible
(the stream would probably stops being a continuous one by the time it
hit the live rail and thus wouldn't be able to conduct), although
given the reports say he "walked onto the track" perhaps he
accidentally made contact with the electrified line another way.

Electrocution for peeing on a railway track is a very harsh penalty
indeed.

The Stoon July 24th 08 08:36 PM

Man electrocuted after urinating on track
 
On 22 Jul, 20:05, Brian Robertson wrote:
wrote:
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article...=229490&in_pag...


ISTR an episode of "Mythbusters" that suggested this wasn't possible
(the stream would probably stops being a continuous one by the time it
hit the live rail and thus wouldn't be able to conduct), although
given the reports say he "walked onto the track" perhaps he
accidentally made contact with the electrified line another way.


~cj


Who the hell is going to do the job that he would have stolen of an
English worker now?

Here to improve his scrounging more like.

Brian.


You are officially a ****ing idiot. I'm not paying 70% tax so old
moochers like you get a decent pension, and if it needs foreigners
here to pay taxes so you can live a life of riley until you die then
so be it.

Chris Tolley July 24th 08 10:40 PM

Man electrocuted after urinating on track
 
disgoftunwells wrote:

Electrocution for peeing on a railway track is a very harsh penalty
indeed.


Seems to be more a form of karma than a penalty.

--
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p14486550.html
(66 067 at Carlisle, 24 Jul 2004)

asdf July 24th 08 10:50 PM

Man electrocuted after urinating on track
 
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:40:22 GMT, Chris Tolley wrote:

disgoftunwells wrote:

Electrocution for peeing on a railway track is a very harsh penalty
indeed.


Seems to be more a form of karma than a penalty.


I think he's making a pedantic comment about the subject line.

(Electrocution is a form of execution, not accidental death.)

Charles Ellson July 24th 08 11:14 PM

Man electrocuted after urinating on track
 
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:50:40 +0100, asdf
wrote:

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:40:22 GMT, Chris Tolley wrote:

disgoftunwells wrote:

Electrocution for peeing on a railway track is a very harsh penalty
indeed.


Seems to be more a form of karma than a penalty.


I think he's making a pedantic comment about the subject line.

(Electrocution is a form of execution, not accidental death.)

Not on the RHS of the pond it isn't.

John B July 24th 08 11:25 PM

Man electrocuted after urinating on track
 
On 24 Jul, 21:36, The Stoon wrote:

You are officially a ****ing idiot. I'm not paying 70% tax [SNIP]


I hope you don't mind the fact that I corrected your post.

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

Mortimer July 25th 08 07:56 AM

Man electrocuted after urinating on track
 
"asdf" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:40:22 GMT, Chris Tolley wrote:

disgoftunwells wrote:

Electrocution for peeing on a railway track is a very harsh penalty
indeed.


Seems to be more a form of karma than a penalty.


I think he's making a pedantic comment about the subject line.

(Electrocution is a form of execution, not accidental death.)


No, electrocution means death by electric shock, whether accidental or as an
execution:

New Oxford Dictionary of English (2001)

"electrocute: injure or kill someone by electric shock: 'a man was
electrocuted on the rail track'"

They even choose the same example as in this case!



Roland Perry July 25th 08 11:35 AM

Man electrocuted after urinating on track
 
In message , at 23:50:40 on
Thu, 24 Jul 2008, asdf remarked:

I think he's making a pedantic comment about the subject line.


Which does in fact say *after* urinating, not *while* urinating.
--
Roland Perry

The Stoon July 25th 08 11:56 AM

Man electrocuted after urinating on track
 
On 25 Jul, 00:25, John B wrote:
On 24 Jul, 21:36, The Stoon wrote:



You are officially a ****ing idiot. I'm not paying 70% tax [SNIP]


I hope you don't mind the fact that I corrected your post.

--
John Band
john at johnband dot orgwww.johnband.org


As long as you don't mind if I come up and pull your head out of the
sand...

John B July 25th 08 12:01 PM

Man electrocuted after urinating on track
 
On 25 Jul, 12:56, The Stoon wrote:
You are officially a ****ing idiot. I'm not paying 70% tax [SNIP]


I hope you don't mind the fact that I corrected your post.


As long as you don't mind if I come up and pull your head out of the
sand...


Go on then, please explain how 70% of your income goes to the state in
a country when tax revenues are 45ish% of GDP.

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org


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