TYNKWD - Touching Lamp Posts

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce a new series of posts.  Living here, I have become increasingly aware of the imminent danger we live in.  However, more and more I am finding that this danger comes from not only the obvious sources -- for example, the exposed and violently sparking electric line on a metro a couple weeks ago -- but also from things you never knew were dangerous (hereafter: TYNKWD).  

I will start this series with a special gem I found in the newspaper:

Touching lamp posts.  

The following is a snippet from the Shenzhen Daily.

"A teenager was eletrocuted on his way home in a lane in Huangbeiling Village in Luhou on Saturday.  he accidentally touched a lamp post and was electrocuted.  He was pronounced dead by doctors at the scene."

No, I assure I am not cut and pasting this to sound the way it does.  That is the information given.  A teenager "accidentally touched a lamp post" and died immediately.  Why? From what? No clue.  Seriously, no more info was given than that, and the ambiguously haunting article is now causing myself and those I've shared it with to live in fear of accidentally touching the wrong lamp post.