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Old July 25th 08, 10:11 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Man electrocuted after urinating on track

On 24 Jul, 23:50, asdf wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:40:22 GMT, Chris Tolley wrote:
disgoftunwells wrote:


Electrocution for peeing on a railway track is a very harsh penalty
indeed.


Seems to be more a form of karma than a penalty.


I think he's making a pedantic comment about the subject line.

(Electrocution is a form of execution, not accidental death.)


I believe it was sci-fi write Robert Heinlein who wrote "in space,
stupidity is punishable by death"
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