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Man says he was shocked by phone booth outside Tukwila grocery store

A local man says his health has been affected after he was shocked by a pay phone booth outside a Tukwila grocery store last month.

The man told KIRO 7 on July 17 he was standing in front of the Riverton Grocery Store on Tukwila International Boulevard while drinking a canned soda as he talked to others.

After setting his canned beverage on a phone booth, he picked it up and felt a surge of electricity so strong, it threw him against the store's wall.

Other people who were nearby helped the man until medics arrived.

After seeing a doctor, the man was told his kidneys and heart were affected by the electrical current.

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