Editing Urination (section)

== Electric shock injuries and deaths ==

In 2008 in London, a person died when they were urinating alongside a railway track at a train station and they received an electric shock.<ref name="13 April 2012">{{Cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/polish-tourist-killed-by-urinating-on-750volt-electric-railway-line-6895168.html#:~:text=The%20Polish%20man%20died%20when,by%20staff%20at%20the%20station.|title=Polish tourist killed by urinating on 750-volt electric railway line|date=13 April 2012|work=Evening Standard|access-date=10 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news
|url=https://www.9news.com.au/world/urinating-on-electric-track-kills-man/53233bc9-310f-4e6d-ae13-38a1818b7e6c|title=Urinating on electric track kills man|date=23 July 2008|work=Nine News (Australia)|access-date=10 March 2024}}</ref> The person received the electric shock when their stream of urine connected with the electric current from the live third rail.<ref name="13 April 2012"/>

In 2010 in Washington state, a person who had died had received burns injuries on their body that were related to receiving an electric shock.<ref name="2 March 2010">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna35650429|title=Man electrocuted by urinating on power line|date=2 March 2010|work=NBC News|access-date=5 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212025832/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna35650429|archive-date=12 December 2021}}</ref>  It is thought that an electric current had traveled through their stream of urine and into their body.<ref name="2 March 2010"/>  It is thought that the person had urinated into a roadside ditch and a live wire that was lying in the ditch gave the person an electric shock.<ref name="2 March 2010"/>

In 2014 in Spain, a person died while urinating on a lamp post when he received an electric shock, which may have traveled through the stream of urine and into his body.<ref name="31 August 2014">{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-news/teenage-reveller-dies-after-being-4139557|title=Teenage reveller dies after being electrocuted while URINATING on lamp-post during festival|last=Rkaina|first=Sam|date=31 August 2014|work=Irish Mirror|access-date=5 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212035614/https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-news/teenage-reveller-dies-after-being-4139557|archive-date=12 December 2021}}</ref>