Amish Teen Electrocuted in Ohio; Power Line Tangled In Horse Buggy (1385 hits)
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Submitted by Nicole <nakita963.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2005-01-12 12:14:13 EST
I'm sorry, but if that title doesn't crack you up, you must be an incredibly compassionate and unsadistic person.
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005011210290001122221&dt=20050112102900&w=APO&coview=
Amish Teen Electrocuted in Ohio
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) - A 17-year-old Amish boy was electrocuted trying to remove a power line that got tangled in his horse-drawn buggy's wheels, authorities said.
The boy drove over a power line Tuesday that had sagged down within a foot of the road after separating from a pole, authorities said.
The line got stuck in the wheels and stopped the buggy. The boy got out and grabbed the 4,800-volt line in an attempt to remove it from the wheels, the Geauga County Sheriff's office said. He died at the scene.
The boy's name was not released because his family had not all been notified, officials said.
The Amish are a deeply religious group who shun modern conveniences such as electricity, telephones and car ownership. About 40,000 Amish live in Ohio, the most of any state.
The boy was traveling south on a road near Geauga-Trumbull County line in northeast Ohio, about 25 miles east of Cleveland.
The horse pulling the buggy was not injured.
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Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2005-01-12 20:04:23 EST (#)
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I-D IS BACK!!!
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!
So, uh... Another Unlife soon? Huh?
Submitted by Jarvis (user info) at 2005-01-12 19:55:31 EST (#)
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The kid is better off dead if he's living in an extremist enviroment.
Submitted by Impassive-Digressive (user info) at 2005-01-12 19:44:17 EST (#)
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Tragic, but I chuckled a little when I read about the horse.
Submitted by boomslang (user info) at 2005-01-12 16:53:13 EST (#)
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hahahhaha....Not Funny
Submitted by Harry_Manback (user info) at 2005-01-12 14:44:45 EST (#)
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I grew up in Amish country. The fewer of those fuckers running around the better.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/54608 My experiences growing up in Amish country.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2005-01-12 14:26:21 EST (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-01-12 13:17:22 (#)
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Not amusing. I'm not into "Amish kid dying via electrocution" humor. """
fair play that was funny.
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2005-01-12 13:45:08 EST (#)
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What kind of humor ARE you into, Shlongy? Besides the stuff where you pull amusing things out of your ass, I mean...
Submitted by XFile (user info) at 2005-01-12 13:21:12 EST (#)
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This was a good story, XFile said.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-01-12 13:17:22 EST (#)
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Not amusing. I'm not into "Amish kid dying via electrocution" humor.
Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2005-01-12 13:13:11 EST (#)
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Funny how everyone mentions that the article does state "The horse pulling the buggy was not injured."
Did some animal rights type of person write this thing up? Those bastards actually enjoy mad cow disease, hoof & mouth disease, & the bird flu. That scares the hell out of me because I would believe this stuff will spread because of Vegan militants. Damn...how did I get off topic? I always do.
Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2005-01-12 13:12:14 EST (#)
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I laughed. To hell in a handbasket for me.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2005-01-12 13:08:22 EST (#)
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thank god the horse is ok
I heard a story on the radio not to long ago about the high rate of incestuous rapes that go unpunished among the Amish because once someone asks for forgiveness for something, it is a sin to mention it again.
lovely
Submitted by Donitsu2002 (user info) at 2005-01-12 13:06:09 EST (#)
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sad, but arousing..
I mean amusing.
*shifty eyes*
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2005-01-12 13:05:30 EST (#)
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if there were no such thing as harnassed electricity like in the amish communities then he would never have died.
the evil western world and its tempting evilness
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2005-01-12 13:05:26 EST (#)
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You havent lived until you walk into a computer lab at college to see over a dozen Amish (or Mennonite, or whatever) kids sitting at the workstations working feverishly.
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2005-01-12 13:03:33 EST (#)
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Ah, yes. I have been to Amish country (as a child with my mom) 40-50 times through my youth. Every trip would garauntee some hijinx with me, technology, and those crazy backwards bastards. HAR HAR
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2005-01-12 13:02:41 EST (#)
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Shocking.
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2005-01-12 13:01:47 EST (#)
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I love how that they throw that in at the end.
"A human, a human being was fried, cooked, like an egg at Denny's. The 600 volt line send curly feelers of deadly cold electricity through every fiber of the man's body. His heart fibrillated, then froze. As he died, he could smell the aroma of his own fat cooking.
Witnesses say the horse was uninjured."
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:59:55 EST (#)
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Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:55:45 (#)
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Is it bad that I thought the same thing?
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Nope. Thats my girl!
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:55:45 EST (#)
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Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:42:52 (#)
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Well at least the horse wasn't hurt.
Is it bad that I thought the same thing?
Submitted by Loren1 (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:50:40 EST (#)
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The horse pulling the buggy was not injured.
whew.
It's all OK then.
Submitted by xenon (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:50:25 EST (#)
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glad the horse is alright.
what an idiot
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:42:52 EST (#)
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Well at least the horse wasn't hurt.
Submitted by NerfHerder (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:39:54 EST (#)
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Another win for the Buckeye State. Watch out, California, Ohio might just be crazy enough to become the number one action state in the country.
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:31:19 EST (#)
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Is it bad that I was hoping the kid's name was "Donald" because the town it happened in was "Chardon?" Get it? Char. Don.
Ba-dum-dum.
Thank You!
I'll be here all week. Remember to tip your waitress and remember that the 10:00 show is completely different from the 7:00 show!
Thank You!
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:26:49 EST (#)
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Is it bad that I laughed?
Who cares this was funny.
-Dave
Submitted by dwr_budr (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:24:07 EST (#)
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And in other new somewhere in Ohio someone lost their DSL connection for about 20 minutes...
Submitted by JMG114 (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:20:24 EST (#)
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"...and in related news, another 600 years of Amish isolationism began with a tragic incident in..."
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:18:41 EST (#)
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Is it Silly News Story Post Wednesday?
Cause that would be an interesting bandwagon...
Submitted by Monarch (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:18:35 EST (#)
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Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:15:57 (#)
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File under I for "Irony".
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Or S, for "stupidity."
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2005-01-12 12:15:57 EST (#)
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File under I for "Irony".