Oh Damn. What a way to go...

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MONTESANO, Wash. (AP) - 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.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9E62II80&show_article=1
 
Didn't Mythbusters do this one, but on the third rail of a subway line? I seem to recall it being plausable but not likely?
 
Didn't Mythbusters do this one, but on the third rail of a subway line? I seem to recall it being plausable but not likely?

they did..something about how the stream wasn't a constant one, possibly not allowing the travel of electricity through it.... don't remember what they said finally..
 
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