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Man Electrocuted Peeing on Subway

NOT AN URBAN MYTH

He was drunk.

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The moral of this story: don’t relieve yourself on the tracks of the New York subway system. Thirty-year-old Matthew Zeno, who was out drinking with a friend, was electrocuted around 3 a.m. Monday morning when he stopped to pee on the third rail of the G train at a station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A friend of Zeno’s tried to save him but also got shocked. Both men were rushed to Woodhull Hospital, where Zeno died. The friend survived and was listed in stable condition.

Read it at New York Post