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Amnesia10
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HeatherKay
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Mythbusters effectively blew this kind of story out of the window, but if the power line was of sufficiently high voltage it's still possible.
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EddArmitage
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Amnesia10
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It might also depend on your health. If you are ill your urine may have extra salts in the fluid which could be conductive. A lot of variables though. You would need a continuous stream of urine as well.
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EddArmitage
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Not necessarily. Power's distributed at fairly substantial voltages to increase efficiency, I just can't see why a grounded wire could short by travelling through a person. I'm fairly certain I'm making a rather fundamental error, though.
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TheHobgob
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Just don't piss next to a power line?
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Amnesia10
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A great general rule.  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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l3v1ck
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+1 He probably slipped and fell onto the live wire as he was taking a pee.
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phantombudgie
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+1 for needing to be reminded 
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finlay666
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+1.5 They did do a real example on a cattle fence and Adam did get shocked from it, but you have to be VERY close, in the dark.... it's possible _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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phantombudgie
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Even in the dark, I think it's a natural instinct to make sure it's not too close to anything else when you're going 
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belchingmatt
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For most things they would get 10/10 for effort, but far less for a scientific approach. Perhaps the lack of human subjects is the problem.
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Linux_User
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His death came as a shock. 
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finlay666
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Like I said they did recreate it with Adam as a test subject with a normal cattle fence  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YriAP0iG ... re=related_________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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bally199
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