A couple of years ago, at the end of a running and drinking event, a friend of mine went off to pee in the bushes several times, in the same place, and kept coming back and telling us that he felt funny, and wondered if you could get electrocuted from pissing on a phone junction box (which was what he had been doing). Most of us doubted him and just ignored him. But then he came back kind of staggering, saying his heart felt like it wasn't beating right, so we decided to take a look. The first thing that caught our eyes was some intermittent light up above us. It turned out that an ironwood tree (a kind evergreen) was growing near the phone box and was touching the powerline above, and sparking in the wind. My friend had been touching the ironwood while he was peeing - getting intermittent shocks. His girlfriend took him to the hospital and they monitored him overnight because his heartbeat was, indeed, irregular from the event. He was OK by the next morning, though.
