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MONTESANO, Wash. — An Elma man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a one-car crash near Montesano...
...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... Messenger apparently urinated into a roadside ditch but didn’t see the live wire...
...(T)here will be an autopsy, but burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through the body.
Update 1715 02 Mar:
Another story from the same area of the country. Excerpt:
A Lewiston Orchards couple walked out of their kitchen minutes before a pickup truck came crashing through early Sunday...
...The home's kitchen/dining room and laundry room were severely damaged when Jonathan J. Schlee, 30, reportedly drove his pickup through the house. The truck also reportedly collided with a neighbor's fence before coming to a stop in a nearby yard.
Schlee, of Lewiston, was arrested for DUI and booked into the Nez Perce County Jail, according to police. He was no longer in custody Monday.
He had been driving east on Ripon Avenue when Schlee reportedly told investigators he was distracted by a female passenger in the car who police said later allegedly admitted being engaged in some kind of sexual activity at the time of the crash. They were not injured in the accident.
