Man electrocuted, killed picking mangoes

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Man electrocuted, killed picking mangoes

A Coconut Creek man was killed Sunday as he tried to knock down mangoes from a friend's tree and accidentally touched a high-voltage line.

BY JOSE PAGLIERY

jpagliery@MiamiHerald.com

A Coconut Creek man was electrocuted in front of his wife Sunday morning when the long aluminum pole in his hands accidentally touched a high-voltage wire as he tried to knock down mangoes.

Thanh Kim Giang, 43, was rushed to Holy Cross Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

His wife, Day Giang, 40, touched her husband as she desperately tried to free him from the electric current and was shocked as well, police said. She was briefly injured.

The tragic accident happened around 10:15 a.m. as the Giang couple visited friends at their home on the 700 block of Northeast 47th Court in Oakland Park, according to Broward Sheriff's Office.

Kim Giang spotted the hanging mangoes in the backyard and picked up a 23-foot aluminum pole to knock them down, but he failed to see lives wires running between the home and an electric pole and came in contact with them, police said.

Giang's wife realized what had happened and tried help her husband by separating him from the pole. She too was shocked.

Neighbors arrived and performed CPR on the Coconut Creek couple until Oakland Park Fire Rescue arrived.

Both were rushed to Holy Cross Hospital, where Thanh Kim Giang was pronounced dead. Day Giang was treated and discharged by 4 p.m.

Family members said that Thanh Kim Giang, a licensed nail specialist, worked at a Fort Lauderdale spa on North Federal Highway.

According to the state records, a man by his name operated a business at 1147 N. Federal Highway, now known as Nail's By Diane.

Day Giang's nephew, who did not wish to give his name, went to the site of the accident Sunday. He walked into the backyard where his uncle died hours earlier and stared at the 60-foot mango tree, where nearly a hundred light green and orange mangoes hung high above the ground -- along with the two low-hanging wires connecting the home to a nearby wooden electric pole.

''I want to know why this happened,'' he said.

Sad and tragic indeed.

[LiszyandKenny 5]

should have done it Brazilian style !!

I live in Coconut Creek

[Niels Bohr 72]

Sad. Could've been avoided if the guy had a little common sense. His hunger got in the way.

[Bobby+Umit 161]

should have done it Brazilian style !!

I live in Coconut Creek

Hows that? they shave the tree?

[Ban Hammer 13,332]

should have done it Brazilian style !!

I live in Coconut Creek

Hows that? they shave the tree?

maybe they wax the tree

[HAL 9000 96]

You should see how its done in Australia hermana.

No sticks involved!

they do have boomerangs, after all.

I thought they just let the roo's jump up to get them - (hence the pouch to place the items in)...

Of course you have to figure out a way to get the items...

that is where the dingo's come in...

"Dingo et' me baby!"

Dingoe ate me mangoe...

But Charles got it... marsupials can catch the mangoes on their way down as the bushmen use the ole boomerangs.