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From: rbrink@hubcap.clemson.edu (Rick Brink)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.geo.meteorology,misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: using the bathroom during lightning storm
Message-ID: <1991May24.135452.29585@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 24 May 91 13:54:52 GMT
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From article <6556@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, by jjhoxsey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Kuros):
> 
>>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 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.
> 
Some time you urban nerdians are in the rural country side, try urinating
on an electrified cattle fence.  You'll live through the experience, but
you'll gain some respect for propellor-heads who know enough not to do it...