All joking aside, a phone line can be energized with dangerous current if one end of it fell onto a power line or if a power line fell onto it. While energized lines often dance and spark, they don't always. Your best move is to treat all downed lines as energized and call 911.
Good advice, even worse a line that may not at that moment be hot can be quickly energized without any apparent human intervention. Power company software is designed to send a current through a problem line at certain intervals to see if a transformer can be reset remotely or to confirm an open circuit issue.
Thus, a line which may have been "safe" a second ago, is suddenly energized now.
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