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Vietnam's Electric Man electrocuted - "Hung Electric"
AP on Yahoo ^
| 9/11/06
| Antonio Castaneda - ap
Posted on 09/11/2006 9:47:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese man who once appeared on national television to demonstrate his ability to resist electric shocks has been electrocuted while repairing a generator, an official said on Tuesday.
Nguyen Van Hung, aged in his early 40s, was killed in Tay Ninh province near the Cambodian border while repairing the generator without first cutting the power supply, a local official said.
"When alive, he used to demonstrate at our office how he would insert two fingers into the electrical plughole without problems," the official said.
Hung, nicknamed "Hung Electric," had appeared on television's "Strange Stories of Vietnam."
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: darwincandidate; electric; electricman; electrocuted; hesdeadjim; hung; vietnam; weitufunye; zot
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To: NormsRevenge
A crispy critter, no doubt.
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posted on
09/11/2006 9:50:28 PM PDT
by
jdm
(I gotta give the Helen Thomas obsession a rest.)
To: NormsRevenge
To: NormsRevenge; aculeus; dighton; martin_fierro
"When alive, he used to demonstrate at our office how he would insert two fingers into the electrical plughole without problems," the official said. What did he call this technique... IBTZ?
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posted on
09/11/2006 9:51:38 PM PDT
by
Thinkin' Gal
(As it was in the days of NO...)
To: NormsRevenge
I feel for the poor man electricuting himself, but anyone who has lived such that he has achieved the name 'Hung Electric' has had a full life.
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posted on
09/11/2006 9:53:04 PM PDT
by
DancesWithBolsheviks
(Fatigued with the party always being in my backyard.)
To: NormsRevenge
Hung Electric"
I was a well expert at one time the called me "Hung
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posted on
09/11/2006 9:53:05 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Life is exquisite... of great beauty, keenly felt.)
To: NormsRevenge
Like Steve Irwin, he thought he was invulnerable.
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posted on
09/11/2006 9:54:12 PM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
To: NormsRevenge
To: NormsRevenge
The English version of Nguyen is Well.
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posted on
09/11/2006 9:56:13 PM PDT
by
Free ThinkerNY
((((Truth shall set you free))))
To: NormsRevenge; aculeus; Charles Henrickson; Constitution Day; dighton; mikrofon; Thinkin' Gal
Nguyen Van Hung, aged in his early 40s, was killed in Tay Ninh province near the Cambodian border while repairing the generator without first cutting the power supply He Bang.
To: NormsRevenge
The headline sparked my interest.
To: NormsRevenge
I guess it goes to show that you shouldn't assume anything.
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posted on
09/11/2006 9:59:14 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: NormsRevenge
... insert two fingers into the electrical plughole......hmmm?
To: Rennes Templar
was killed in Tay Ninh province near the Cambodian border while repairing the generator without first cutting the power supply.How do you compare that to what happened to Steve Erwin?
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posted on
09/11/2006 9:59:32 PM PDT
by
perfect stranger
(Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass). "Getting bombed has always struck me as the better option.")
To: NormsRevenge
Good thing you filed this right in news/current events.
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posted on
09/11/2006 9:59:37 PM PDT
by
kingu
(No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
To: NormsRevenge
"When alive, he used to demonstrate at our office how he would insert two fingers into the electrical plughole without problems," the official said.If he did stuff like that when alive, what will he do when dead?
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posted on
09/11/2006 10:00:07 PM PDT
by
Free ThinkerNY
((((Truth shall set you free))))
To: NormsRevenge
He stuned his own beeber.
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posted on
09/11/2006 10:02:19 PM PDT
by
Triggerhippie
(Always use a silencer in a crowd. Loud noises offend people.)
To: NormsRevenge; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
09/11/2006 10:03:49 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: NormsRevenge
- "When alive, he used to demonstrate at our office how he would insert two fingers into the electrical plughole without problems," the official said.
That's no big deal. The current was alternating between the two fingers and in a place like Vietnam the power must be weak. But once he started messing around with a generator, he made the mistake of being grounded and got a serious shock through his whole body.
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posted on
09/11/2006 10:04:24 PM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
To: Free ThinkerNY; martin_fierro; NormsRevenge; aculeus; Charles Henrickson; Constitution Day; ...
If he did stuff like that when alive, what will he do when dead? With a name like Hung, generate gallows humor I suppose.
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posted on
09/11/2006 10:05:20 PM PDT
by
Thinkin' Gal
(As it was in the days of NO...)
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