Here’s another example of how the public works infrastructure of Minneapolis is going to the dogs.

In at least two known cases, canines have sustained electric shocks while urinating at the base of aging parkway light poles, where the wiring has deteriorated. The unlucky dogs let loose a stream of urine, completing an electrical circuit.

“I was walking my dog and she was sniffing near a light pole and she leaped in the air and yelped,” reported Heidi Hamilton. She happens to be the city’s deputy public works director. Her incident happened several years ago on Minnehaha Parkway.

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