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Re: Signs - Lies - 3rd Rails
Author: Bill C
Date: 01-12-2009 - 11:20

Looks like a typical urban legend where someone took a few facts and ran in the wrong direction.

From the link below:
Quote:
Plaintiff's decedent, Sang Yeul Lee (Lee), a 46-year-old Korean immigrant who was unable to read English, attended a party on the evening of October 21, 1977. On his way home, Lee entered a CTA right-of-way at the intersection of Kedzie Avenue and the Ravenswood railway line in Chicago, apparently, in order to urinate. The right-of-way was posted with signs, placed on a utility shed and on sawhorses at each side of the tracks, warning "Danger," "Keep Out," and "Electric Current." Parallel to the tracks and approximately 6 1/2 feet from the sidewalk lay a street-level third rail.

It doesn't say he urinated on the rail. It says he walked onto the right of way at a grade crossing where there was an energized 600-volt rail... to urinate.

link to: Torts - Supplemental Material, Chicago-Kent College of Law

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  Signs - Lies - 3rd Rails The Observer 01-11-2009 - 11:52
  Re: Signs - Lies - 3rd Rails NKB 01-11-2009 - 13:40
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  Re: Signs - Lies - 3rd Rails T Judah 01-11-2009 - 17:39
  Re: Signs - Lies - 3rd Rails Former CTA Rider 01-11-2009 - 14:48
  Third rails at stations Bill 01-11-2009 - 15:09
  More third rail comments Bill 01-11-2009 - 15:32
  Re: More third rail comments Nate Beal 01-12-2009 - 07:39
  Re: Signs - Lies - 3rd Rails Buster 01-12-2009 - 09:34
  Re: Signs - Lies - 3rd Rails Bill C 01-12-2009 - 11:20
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