Registered: 02/16/08
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Loc: Central California
AP - Montesano WA - solo car crash into power pole - man survives without serious injury - electocuted when current climbs urination stream while he urinates into ditch where live power wire fell.
This one may not be true but stuff like this "could" happen. I guy I knew years ago was Andy, my short friend and he was short as he got hurt with a downed power line. He was driving a duce and a half army truck really late and alone back to the yard and in a rainstorm. He slid off the road and hit a power pole and the truck stopped in the ditch, which had lots of water in in from the rain storm. He was stunned in the impact but came around quickly and then made his mistake and got out of the truck. The power line fell in the ditch water and he got electrocuted when he stepped into the ditch water. It didn't kill him but almost. He did lose his legs to the electric burns from the knees down.
His sense of humor was one of his survival skills - he always noted that after the accident he was an inch taller in his prosthetic legs.
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