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Meghann returns later this week.

Meantime, here’s an Associated Press story that’s been getting a lot of attention online, and in the social media networks:

MONTESANO, Wash. (AP) — An Elma man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a one-car crash near Montesano.

Grays Harbor County sheriff’s Deputy Dave Pimentel (PIM’-en-tel) said Monday that 50-year-old Roy Messenger was not seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole Friday night and called a relative to pull his car out of the ditch.

When family members arrived they found Messenger electrocuted. Pimentel says Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside ditch but didn’t see the live wire.

Pimentel says there will be an autopsy but burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through the body.

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Sirens & Gavels." Read all stories from this blog