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From: jjhoxsey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Kuros)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.geo.meteorology,misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: using the bathroom during lightning storm
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Date: 23 May 91 23:11:05 GMT
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In article <1991May23.223109.19908@cbfsb.att.com> Dan_Jacobson@ihlpz.ATT.COM writes:

>Outside there is a big lightning storm.  Should I risk the brief
>moments of a closed liquid circuit between me and the plumbing system
>by using the restroom?  [I need to know soon.]

I dunno -- can't you just "hold it"?

I do recall reading in Cecil Adams "The Straight Dope." that there was
once a dead man found in the subway tunnels who had died from
electrocution.  The evidence was clear-but I'm sure you don't want to
hear about it-that the man was urinating on the third rail of the
subway system.  For you rural propellor-heads out there, the third
rail is the electrical supply for the subwar car(s) that is very much
like a normal train track rail.

Now whether or not your plumbing is safe....

Besides, isn't it known that you shouldn't be on the computer during
an electrical storm?  %)

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