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Despite dog electrocution, city says streetlights are safe
Seattle P I ^
| December 1, 2010
| VANESSA HO
Posted on 12/02/2010 12:06:33 AM PST by skeptoid
Seattle officials worked this week to reassure people that its streetlight system is safe, after a dog was electrocuted and another injured on electrical vault covers in Queen Anne last week.
A pinched wire and the faulty grounding of four streetlights had caused the dangerous energizing of the metal sidewalk covers, authorities said. A private developer had paid a contractor to install the lights, according to the city, but
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...
TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: doggieping; electricity; energy; strayvoltage
Vanessa Ho / seattlepi.com
Sam, a 6-year-old German shorthair pointer, was killed last week when he stepped on this plate (right) next to a streetlight on Queen Anne Avenue. .
In the article, others claim they and their dogs have been shocked.
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posted on
12/02/2010 12:06:37 AM PST
by
skeptoid
To: skeptoid
Doogy feet on plate, tail hits street light post....DOGGY TOAST!!
KAAAAAzap!!!
Canine switching devices are not very efficient.
I feel a new computer gane design coming on.
Dalk Your Wog!
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posted on
12/02/2010 12:12:28 AM PST
by
Candor7
(Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_ipthe_quintessentia_1.html)
To: skeptoid
Of course the streetlights are safe. They are defended by electricity!
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posted on
12/02/2010 12:15:13 AM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
To: skeptoid
The dog should have used the fire plug. Lucky this was not down south where the dog and owner use the same pole (fireplug).
To: skeptoid
Safe - up until the point the dog explodes.
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posted on
12/02/2010 12:30:38 AM PST
by
Libloather
(Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
To: Plumberman27
The dog should have used the fire plug. Lucky this was not down south where the dog and owner use the same pole (fireplug).I guess the dog really got pissed off (weird humor from a fellow plumber).
To: skeptoid
I’m going to feel so empty if a new law isn’t passed in 10, 9, 8, 7....
But I like the idea of that photo being taken by Vanessa Ho. Every city with electric sidewalks needs women named Vanessa Ho.
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posted on
12/02/2010 12:41:13 AM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
("Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking" - Barack Hussein Obama)
To: skeptoid
city says streetlights are safe And now that we've conquered that problem, just wait until you see how we handle health care!
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posted on
12/02/2010 2:49:48 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
To: Candor7
I’m still trying to understand how the circuit was completed and what wasn’t grounded. I hear Thomas Edison’s tormented ghost calling “ Ne frusta vixisse vidar”. (”Let my life not be seen to have been lived in vain.”)
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posted on
12/02/2010 2:54:47 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
To: skeptoid
Seattle City Light said the city's transportation department was in charge of inspecting the project. The Department of Transportation said City Light had final responsibility. Classic. The person hired to do the job did it wrong. Then the inspector didn't inspect. Finger pointing ensues.
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posted on
12/02/2010 4:56:18 AM PST
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Yeas, I know what you mean. There was a freak factor in this accident.
Loved your Freeper homepage. So very few of us understand genuinely that the Obama movement is a liberal fascist movement, and what that means for America.Many here on FR think to say so is being distinctly alarmist.It is not. We need to fight them for our very lives, if we must. It will come to that eventually, if we do not stop their evolution.
Great article here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_ipthe_quintessentia_1.html
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posted on
12/02/2010 5:10:31 AM PST
by
Candor7
(Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_ipthe_quintessentia_1.html)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Being ground, and circuit completion, are two different animals...
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posted on
12/02/2010 5:31:22 AM PST
by
Issaquahking
(Help Sarah Palin! go to - http://www.conservatives4palin.com - You know what to do!)
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: Issaquahking
Normally a hazard exists when “stray voltage” can find a path to ground through the body of the victim. Yes, if you grasp two leads of an ungrounded transformer, woe be unto to you, but that's not what generally happens. More commonly, the chassis of a piece of equipment comes into contact with an energized conductor. If the chassis is ungrounded and conductive, then if a victim touches (or pees on) the chassis while grounded, by say, standing barefooted on a grounded access cover, a circuit can be completed. It the lamppost was grounded, then the access cover and lamppost would be at the same potential and no circuit across a potential would be completed.
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posted on
12/02/2010 7:40:29 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
To: Issaquahking
PS: That was the reason why Thomas Edison was an advocate of grounding all electrical equipment.
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posted on
12/02/2010 7:42:42 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
To: skeptoid; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono
City assures public ZOTs are safe.
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posted on
12/02/2010 8:40:29 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...
Clearly they need taller streetlights. Thanks skeptoid.
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posted on
12/02/2010 6:21:19 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/03/2010 3:48:56 AM PST
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
To: Candor7
YOU JERK!
When I read your hilarious response, I was eating and sucked something into my windpipe and damn near choked! I was hacking for a good 30 seconds straight minimum there. Maybe a minute.
Thanks for the laugh. That was dang hilarious! But my eyes are still watering. You almost added me to the death toll.
“Seattle dog electrocution covers causes asphyxiation death of California man. News at 11:00”.
Dalk your wog, indeed.
ok, I”m still coughing here - no more eating on the interwebs
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posted on
12/03/2010 4:25:29 PM PST
by
Freedom_Is_Not_Free
(TSA apologists deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. END the TSA.)
To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:16:36 AM PST
by
Candor7
(Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/brack_obama_ipthe_quintessentia_1.html)
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