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TIL in 2006 a jury awarded $24.2m to two men who were severely burned by a 12,500-volt electrical wire when they trespassed onto railroad property and climbed atop a rail car. The two men, who were 17 at the time of the accident, argued the companies should've placed warning signs about the wires.

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