A dog was electrocuted by a stray electrical current on the SIDEWALK near a Con Edison sub-station on Third Street in the Gowanus area. The dog’s owner was not hurt.
The electrical current came up through the concrete. The cause: a street lamp that was removed 2 years ago. Apparently, there were still some live wires underground and the salt that was sprinkled on the sidewalk because of the snow conducted the electricity.
The dog bit the owner as he was dying. Two police-vets were on the scene. They tried to lift the dog but just touching the dog caused them to be shocked by the electricity.
Note: If you are ever around someone who is being electrocuted, do not touch them with your hands. Take off your coat and loop it around them and pull them away from the cause of the electrocution. Husband told me that this morning.
AND NOW THIS FROM NEW YORK1:
A Brooklyn man says his dog was shocked Wednesday while walking down Third street in Park Slope, right in front of a Con Ed substation.
Danny Kapilian says Barkus starting convulsing, yelping, and baring his teeth. He then died shortly afterward at a veterinarian
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my comments were not in response to “dog electrocuted on third street” but to the shops described on a walk down fifth avenue which ended at third street…
as for the dog being electrocuted…i was thinking about it every second as i walked bear this morning…stuff like that tends to stick in my mind…i don’t let him walk across manholes or vault plates and
i am thinking of him in rubber shoes….
there is shoplife on fifth avenue after third street: come visit:living on fifth,razor, serene rose,under the pig, and zuzu’s petals…all of us are between 3rd and 6th street.