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Teenager electrocuted while 'listening' to railway track
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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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posted on
01/22/2014 2:28:16 PM PST
by
kingattax
To: All
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:29:54 PM PST
by
newnhdad
(Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
To: kingattax
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:30:22 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(What did you think would happen?)
To: kingattax
Before coming to another country, you should learn about its customs.
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:31:47 PM PST
by
jonrick46
(The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
To: kingattax
Kanwel Butt Uhhh.
No.
Not gonna do it.
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:34:12 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: kingattax
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:34:59 PM PST
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: kingattax
"... the teenager had moved to England from Pakistan just months earlier. In Pakistan people sometimes listen to rails, which are not live, to see if a train is coming. Even more ironic, the teenager had moved from the small Pakistani town of 'PffzzBnzzntPOPpfft'.
To: kingattax
In nature, the penalty for stupidity is death; the sentence is executed immediately, and there is no appeal.
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:36:26 PM PST
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: kingattax
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:37:03 PM PST
by
Libloather
(Embrace the suck)
To: kingattax
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:38:05 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: Libloather
To: kingattax
"Dumb ways to die....so many dumb ways to die....."
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:38:20 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Libloather
Eight hundred volts at four hundred amps.
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:38:34 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Imagine a world without politicians, lawyers and federal judges.)
To: tacticalogic
What did he hear?
AC/DC No more posts please, we have our winner.
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:38:57 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: kingattax
Tragic teen Kanwel Butt Too many easy jokes with that name.....
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:40:00 PM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
To: Tax-chick
It is tragic, I will pray for his family.
At least it was guick.
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:40:11 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: newnhdad
Most definitely !
NO one saw him and tried to stop him ?
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:40:17 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: kingattax
In Pakistan people sometimes listen to rails, which are not live, to see if a train is coming.I thought that maybe he'd seen it in a Western or hobo film. Hell, I've done that, but only the wheel rails were available to me.
To: Libloather
“What did he hear?”
He heard that lonesome whistle,
and it Blew his Blues away....and his ear, hair, part of his scalp.......
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posted on
01/22/2014 2:42:55 PM PST
by
Autonomous User
(Pain Fades. Chicks Dig Scars. Glory, lasts forever.)
To: kingattax
Oh, but he was much smarter, more knowledgeable, and harder working than all those lazy European types.
We used to have trouble with shoe prints on toilet seats until management realized how much more expensive “cheap labor” is.
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