Amish teen electrocuted by power line in buggy wheel

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 Posted: 11:13 AM EST (1613 GMT)







CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- A 17-year-old Amish boy was electrocuted trying to remove a power line that got tangled in his horse-drawn buggy's wheels, authorities said.



The boy drove over a power line Tuesday that had sagged down within a foot of the road after separating from a pole, authorities said.



The line got stuck in the wheels and stopped the buggy. The boy got out and grabbed the 4,800-volt line in an attempt to remove it from the wheels, the Geauga County Sheriff's office said. He died at the scene.



The boy's name was not released because his family had not all been notified, officials said.



The Amish are a deeply religious group who shun modern conveniences such as electricity, telephones and car ownership. About 40,000 Amish live in Ohio, the most of any state.



The boy was traveling south on a road near Geauga-Trumbull County line in northeast Ohio, about 25 miles east of Cleveland.



The horse pulling the buggy was not injured.

i saw that story earlier. i think its pretty funny, if they werent such idiots the kid would have known that he shouldnt touch a downed power line. im sure the amish will use this as a way to say that elec. is bad.

You see! They are right! Electricity is the work of the devil.

Amish have like Field day at our mall. You'll go there one day and there will be TONS of em and they walk around in packs.

i dont think theyre allowed to go to the mall

Ohh they do though, trust me they do...

are you sure they arent just pentacostals? if there arent a bunch of horses outside then theyre prob pentacostals

I think they make eceptions in some cases now days. But next time i see a herd of em ill ask one just for you Shane.Trammell

make exceptions for what?

that is pretty funny, in a shitty sort of way