{"id":5574,"date":"1999-07-19T02:08:29","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-90-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:52","slug":"1-90-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-90-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.90.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.90<\/strong>.  A man urinates and dies.  (RA original)<\/p>\n<p>1.90 answer:  He urinated on the third rail in the New York subway, was<br \/>\nknocked onto the tracks by the shock, and was hit by a train and killed.<br \/>\n(Experts apparently disagree on whether he died from the electrical shock<br \/>\nbefore the train hit him.)  This is a true story; the man was named Joseph<br \/>\nPatrick O&#8217;Malley, and Cecil Adams gives the story in <cite>The Straight<br \/>\nDope<\/cite>, quoting <cite>Where Death Delights<\/cite> by Marshall<br \/>\nHouta.<\/p>\n<p>1.90 variant answer:  The man was in a boat on the Amazon.  A tiny fish<br \/>\nswam &#8220;upstream&#8221; into the man whereupon it inflated itself to balloon size,<br \/>\nkilling him.  (TK)  (I don&#8217;t know whether fish that can swim up a urethra<br \/>\nactually exist or are an urban legend, but all my sources indicate they do<br \/>\nexist.  The self-inflation may not be true, though.  Also, the man might<br \/>\nhave to be standing in the water (rather than in the boat) for the fish to<br \/>\nenter his body.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.90. A man urinates and dies. (RA original) 1.90 answer: He urinated on the third rail in the New York subway, was knocked onto the tracks by the shock, and was hit by a train and killed. (Experts apparently disagree on whether he died from the electrical shock before the train hit him.) This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5484,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5574","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15834,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5574\/revisions\/15834"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}