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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Tue Feb 17, 2015, 01:48 PM Feb 2015

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18 dead after accident at carnival in Haiti

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An electrical line struck a float.

Mercy.

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18 dead after accident at carnival in Haiti (Original Post) shenmue Feb 2015 OP

Witnesses said someone on the float used a stick to move the power line to let the float pass seveneyes Feb 2015 #1

Truly sad malaise Feb 2015 #2

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)

1. Witnesses said someone on the float used a stick to move the power line to let the float pass

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 01:56 PM

Feb 2015

If as I suspect it was the 80kv standard distribution line, a still looks like a piece of copper at those voltages.

malaise

(269,157 posts)

2. Truly sad

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 02:25 PM

Feb 2015

and the person who used the stick was completely at fault

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