[Larry381]

Coincidentally, I was just reading an old issue of "Outdoor" magazine which had a survival quiz in it. One of the questions was "What should you do if you are on the tracks of the NY subway system and don't have time to climb onto the platform before the train reaches you?" The answer was lie down between the rails, because many of them (but not all) are designed to leave space for a person.

One of the strangest deaths I've ever read about occurred in the NYC Subway. A homeless man was urinating on the tracks and somehow the stream of urine came into contact with the third rail electrocuting the poor devil. I read this in a book by a former NYC medical examiner whos name I'm sorry to say I no longer recall.

[RoseyT]

Would that be the literal definition of “p!ssed off?”

[Blood of Tyrants]

I sort of doubt that story because the stream of urine is not a laminar flow and the voltage is not high enough to arc between droplets. More likely he stumbled and fell while he was urinating.

[Larry381]

One of the strangest deaths I've ever read about occurred in the NYC Subway. A homeless man was urinating on the tracks and somehow the stream of urine came into contact with the third rail electrocuting the poor devil. I read this in a book by a former NYC medical examiner whos name I'm sorry to say I no longer recall.

BTW-The medical examiner in question was Milton Helpern