Texas Pastor Electrocuted During Baptism (AP)

[Tyler Durden]

http://www.comcast.net/news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTIC&fn=/2005/10/31/253516.html

By Associated Press
Mon Oct 31, 0:42 AM

WACO, Texas - A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning after adjusting a nearby microphone while standing in water, a church employee said.

The Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, was stepping into the baptistery as he reached out for the microphone, which produced an electric shock, said University Baptist Church community pastor Ben Dudley.

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Lake was pronounced dead at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, nursing supervisor Pat Mahl said. The woman being baptized apparently had not stepped into the water and was not seriously injured.

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"He was grabbing the microphone so everyone could hear," she said. "It's the only way you can be loud enough."

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I'm sorry, kids, but I'm having such a terrible day and month that I simply could not resist.

[Richard D]

1. That's so sad . . .

. . . but you gotta hope he gets a nomination for a Darwin Award.

[Moderator]

2. Locking

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