Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 14, 2010
February 15th, 2010
Today’s Repetitive Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
In 1991, a 57-year-old Thai woman Yooket Paen was walking in her farm when she accidentally slipped on a cow dung, grabbed a naked live wire and got electrocuted to death. Soon after Paen’s funeral, her 52-year-old-sister Yooket Pan was showing her neighbors how the accident happened when she herself slipped, grabbed the same live wire and also got electrocuted to death!
Culled from: Neatorama
Generously submitted by: Bex
Rofl! Did we really need a demonstration, Sis?
Ah, Darwin wins again.
… and, since “electrocuted” means “killed by electricity” (as opposed to “received an electric shock”), the phrase “electrocuted to death” is in itself repetitive.
(I know, I’m nit-picking.)