I heard about this on the news this morning.
The owner of the dog was upset but taking it pretty good.
I would come un-fucking glued if it happened to my dog.
Con Ed has a serious problemand needs to get their asses handed to them.
It's not just dogs either, people seem to be getting zapped on a fairly regular basis.
Dog dies after getting shocked by stray voltage
February 16, 2006, 8:20 AM EST
NEW YORK (AP) _ A dog out for a walk with his owner died after being electrocuted by stray current running underneath the sidewalk.
Danny Kapilian was walking the dog, Barkis, in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn on Wednesday when the dog "suddenly got very agitated," Kapilian said.
"He lunged into the street and there was a car coming so I yanked him back so that it wouldn't hit him," he said.
Consolidated Edison said it had traced the source of the stray voltage to a location on the sidewalk from which a streetlight had been removed during the last two years. A spokesman for the utility told the New York Post for Thursday's editions that the voltage was capped immediately.
The incident comes days after a teenage model from the U.S. Virgin Islands, in New York for last week's Fashion Week, was shocked by stray voltage when she stepped on an electrical service box near Times Square. Three other people were hurt by the current.
Con Ed said about that incident that frayed cable had energized the cover of the service box and was repaired