NY trooper, Canadian civilian electrocuted

A veteran state trooper and a civilian were electrocuted while fixing a flat tire on an antique fire truck when the truck's ladder touched a high-voltage power line, police said.

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A 17 year old girl in Romania has died while attempting to Twitter from her bathtub.

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We live in Sweden, a very organized country when it comes to things like infrastructure, electricity, etc. However, there are some countries that have a more "organic" approach to their cabling…

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A five-year-old boy was fatally shocked when he crawled into an electrical transformer between two apartment complexes.

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United States troops were injured or died in Iraq from electrocution in faulty-wired building. (See video.)

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Members of the U.S. Congress are investigating the electrocutions of 12 soldiers in Iraq. Critics say faulty electrical work done by U.S. contractor KBR is to blame for the deaths.

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The biggest US military contractor in Iraq, KBR, was steeped in another scandal Friday as lawmakers, families and experts accused it of recklessly causing the electrocution deaths of US soldiers.

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In October 2004, the United States Army issued an urgent bulletin to commanders across Iraq, warning them of a deadly new threat to American soldiers.

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Is The Death Penalty Really A Deterrent?

For me the death penalty is not a deterrent because, quite simply, people do not think about the consequences of their crime when they are committing it.

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During his two tours of duty serving as a special forces soldier in Iraq, Ryan D. Maseth had cheated death on more than a few occasions.

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January 4th,1903: Thomas Edison stages his highly publicized electrocution of an elephant in order to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current, which, if it posed any immediate danger at all, was only to Edison's own direct current.

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A thief in Germany was charred beyond recognition by a 10,000 volt electric shock when he tried to steal a live copper cable, authorities said on Monday. There are lessons in the sad tale about the dangers of electrical contact.

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Lightning struck a diver's air tank as he surfaced off Florida's Atlantic coast, killing him, authorities said.

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Every year, Neil Engelman carefully collects his data, stands before his company's board of directors and is asked the same question: What caused more outages? The lightning or the squirrels?

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How do you keep soaking-wet performers from getting shocked?

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A retired German construction foreman who tried to electrocute moles in the garden of his weekend house ended up frying himself, Reuters reports.

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Although this article is two years old, clearly the problem has not been solved. One woman was electrocuted and others have been hurt. Today, flyers were being distributed by the NY Dept. of Transportation with the following message:

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Oprah Rapuleng was due to start school on Wednesday, however she was electrocuted after drinking water from a standpipe near her Soweto home.

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Tom Cruise seems to have gained the powers of the Dark Side, as he uses his evil abilities to electrocute Oprah in the midst of a love-induced frenzy.

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