This is sad....

[catesta]

I heard about this on the news this morning.

The owner of the dog was upset but taking it pretty good.

I would come un-fucking glued if it happened to my dog.

Con Ed has a serious problemand needs to get their asses handed to them.

It's not just dogs either, people seem to be getting zapped on a fairly regular basis.

Dog dies after getting shocked by stray voltage

February 16, 2006, 8:20 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) _ A dog out for a walk with his owner died after being electrocuted by stray current running underneath the sidewalk.

Danny Kapilian was walking the dog, Barkis, in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn on Wednesday when the dog "suddenly got very agitated," Kapilian said.

"He lunged into the street and there was a car coming so I yanked him back so that it wouldn't hit him," he said.

Consolidated Edison said it had traced the source of the stray voltage to a location on the sidewalk from which a streetlight had been removed during the last two years. A spokesman for the utility told the New York Post for Thursday's editions that the voltage was capped immediately.

The incident comes days after a teenage model from the U.S. Virgin Islands, in New York for last week's Fashion Week, was shocked by stray voltage when she stepped on an electrical service box near Times Square. Three other people were hurt by the current.

Con Ed said about that incident that frayed cable had energized the cover of the service box and was repaired

Edited February 17, 2006 by catesta

[Chuck Nessa]

Yup, sad.

If you want to become "unglued" check this out - beware it is political.

[Stereojack]

There have been a couple of similar incidents in the Boston area in the past year as well. The power company is red-faced, to say the least.

[catesta]

Yup, sad.

If you want to become "unglued" check this out - beware it is political.

Chuck, the link is not working.

Point me to it.

[Bright Moments]

this is REALLY sad!!

Starving poor of Somalia now suffering thirst

By Jerome Taylor

Published: 17 February 2006

The impoverished people of Somalia are being forced to surviv e on three containers of water a day for drinking, cooking and washing, Oxfam has said.

Increasingly large numbers of people are dying from dehydration on 40-mile treks to fetch water in scorching temperatures of up to 40C.

"The situation will get worse unless swift action is taken," said Mohamed Elmi, Oxfam's regional programme manager. Somalia is one of the poorest African nations and campaigners are deeply concerned that the drought in the south of the country, which has already struck neighbouring Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Tanzania and Burundi, will hit the nation, disrupted by wars, particularly hard.

The price of containers used to transport water has rocketed to more than a day's wages for most Somalis, said Brendan Cox, an Oxfam spokesman . A water canister that used to cost at least 1p now costs 70p in a region where residents live on pennies a day.

The latest UN report on Somalia said 1.7 million people - 710,000 of them experiencing acute food shortages - needed food assistance of some kind in addition to the 410,000 refugees who depend on food aid.

The impoverished people of Somalia are being forced to surviv e on three containers of water a day for drinking, cooking and washing, Oxfam has said.

Increasingly large numbers of people are dying from dehydration on 40-mile treks to fetch water in scorching temperatures of up to 40C.

"The situation will get worse unless swift action is taken," said Mohamed Elmi, Oxfam's regional programme manager. Somalia is one of the poorest African nations and campaigners are deeply concerned that the drought in the south of the country, which has already struck neighbouring Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Tanzania and Burundi, will hit the nation, disrupted by wars, particularly hard.