[2060] in Humor
HUMOR: Now *that's* how the Darwin Award is earned!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Mon May 5 18:24:07 1997
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 18:21:17 EDT
From: olegman@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 17:41:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erika Jonietz <jonietz@husc.harvard.edu>
Darwin awards are given to people who improve the gene pool by killing
themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way)
We have many transmission lines that crisscross the state. These are
held up by Transmission Towers of different construction.
Near most urban areas these are normally "metal Ornamental
Towers" (they are supposed to be prettier than wood towers).
Sometimes we have folks who feel it would be nice to climb these
towers and enjoy the night air. Most enjoy their view, stay away
from the wires, and when they get bored, come back down. Well
this is a story of a fella who was a little despondent over a
recent fight with a girlfriend and decided he needed a little
fresh air to clear his head. He proceeded to climb a tower south of
Hartford next to I-91. Before he got to his tower though he
decided to stop for a 6 pack to help clear his thoughts.
Here our "Darwin Award winner-to-be" sits 60 feet above the
highway, drinking his beer, consoling his bruised ego. Our friend had 5
beers when he decided he needed the services of a men's
room. It being of such a long hike down, he unzips and decides to do
his business right there off the tower. Electricity is a funny thing.
You don't need to touch a wire in order to get shocked. On these 15,000
volt lines depending on the conditions, you could be as far away as 6'
and still get shocked.
Well, our friend proceeded to "whiz" near the conductor (wire) when
the power arced to his "stream" (salt water is a most
excellent conductor of electricity) followed up to his private
parts and blew him off the tower.
The utility company had a momentary outage on this line
got to the scene of the accident, they found a very dead person,
his fly down, what was left of his private parts smoking and a
single beer left on top of the tower.
