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Teenager electrocuted while 'listening' to railway track
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| Andy Rudd
Posted on 01/22/2014 2:28:16 PM PST by kingattax
Tragic teen Kanwel Butt was electrocuted while 'listening' to the railway track to see if his delayed train was coming.
The 17-year-old put his ear to the live rail and was killed instantly.
An inquest today heard how the teenager had moved to England from Pakistan just months earlier and was making his first solo train journey.
In Pakistan people sometimes listen to rails, which are not live, to see if a train is coming.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: music; rail; teens
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To: tacticalogic
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:48:44 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(If you like your constitution, you can keep your constitution. Period. (M.S.))
To: newnhdad
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:48:53 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: kingattax
At least he had the good sense not to pee on it.
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:49:23 PM PST
by
Ken H
(What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
To: kingattax
This young man seems to be the Butt of some jokes.
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:49:47 PM PST
by
DaxtonBrown
(http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
To: kingattax
That’s what happens when you let the 7th century into the 21st.
To: dfwgator
Current news
Ohm my!
It Hertz
Ample stupidity
He was Volted off the island
To: kingattax
Seems like people in that part of the world don't respect electricity, as demonstrated in this
GRAPHIC VIDEO.
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:56:46 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(If you like your constitution, you can keep your constitution. Period. (M.S.))
To: tacticalogic
Maybe this album
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:57:06 PM PST
by
xp38
To: kingattax
Expect signs in Urdu warning of the 3rd rail.
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:58:05 PM PST
by
csvset
To: kingattax
I am not going to make fun of this poor kid’s death. He was working and trying to better himself in a new country. Ignorance is not stupidity and his death is a tragedy.
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:59:53 PM PST
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(Things are only going to get worse.)
To: Brooklyn Attitude
Lots of folks here think this kid deserved what he got because he’s a Pak and “ignorance is no excuse”.
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posted on
01/22/2014 3:04:06 PM PST
by
Ribeye
(Protective headwear courtesy of Reynolds Aluminum Products- Extra-cranial RF Suppression Division)
To: Ribeye
By the way, I’m not one of those people. I feel for the kid and his family.
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posted on
01/22/2014 3:05:25 PM PST
by
Ribeye
(Protective headwear courtesy of Reynolds Aluminum Products- Extra-cranial RF Suppression Division)
To: Brooklyn Attitude
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posted on
01/22/2014 3:06:53 PM PST
by
DB
To: Ken H
"pee on rails"
"that really burns", it's just another way to die,
uninformed about modern technology.
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posted on
01/22/2014 3:27:08 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
To: xp38
That’s the best AC/DC album, IMHO.
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posted on
01/22/2014 3:30:11 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Regulator
More like 19th instead of 7th.
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posted on
01/22/2014 3:33:19 PM PST
by
NathanR
To: kingattax
Teen. There’s a good chance that he was not able to reproduce yet. So one more evolutionary dead end out of the gene pool.
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posted on
01/22/2014 3:37:37 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: kingattax
To: NathanR
You’re being charitable.
I tend to think of all of The Caliphate as being 1300 years behind the times. Maybe more, since they were regressive even then.
To: Libloather
What did he hear? Must have been shocking, whatever it was.
Now admit it, as a straight man, you sat that up for all the wannabe comedians here (including me), didn't you?
I mean "straight man", as in a comedic duo of course.
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posted on
01/22/2014 3:51:35 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
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