RW> I don't know if you know it or not but your train thing
RW> has happened and, as they say, truth is stranger then
RW> fiction.  The case, as I can remember it, follows.
It doesn't surprise me as much as you think it would.
RW> A drunk man climbs a fence, forces his way through a
RW> board fence and climbs on to the train tracks and
RW> starts walking.  After a while he felt the need to void
RW> his bladder and stopped and started doing so.
RW> Unfortunately for him he was standing on one rail and
RW> aimed his stream at the 'third' rail (the one carrying
RW> the electricity that runs the train).  Well, as any
RW> farm boy who has every talked his city cousin in to
RW> doing a similar thing to an electric fence knows, urine
RW> is a very good electrical conductor.  The man is
RW> killed.
Oops
RW> Family of man sues the transit company for not
RW> providing 'adequate' protection of the tracks from
RW> drunks.  Jury sees poor widow, and I think kids, on one
RW> side and the city of Chicago on the other and decides
RW> that the widow needs money more then the city.  And
RW> ipso facto, a multi-million award.
So you see what I'm saying.  Cool.
Peace.
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