Posted on 08/14/2023 5:26:39 PM PDT by Libloather
Horrifying footage shows the moment two Lollapalooza-goers were shocked by the third rail of a Chicago train - after entering the unauthorized area to take a series of photos.
Disturbing video circulating on social media shows the pair - as well as another member of their group - sitting on tracks and attempting to take a selfie, before a male member of the party leans back and is zapped with 600 volts.
He is then seen hauling a girl next to him on top of himself as he goes rigid with pain, shocking her in the process. The incident at 7.30pm left both victims, an unnamed man and woman, hospitalized on August 5, with the former in critical condition.
Neither have been identified, but first responders who rushed to the scene, at Chicago Transit Authority's Ridgeland Green Line station to rescue the pair said they are both in their 20s.
The two, who officials said had been making their way to the festival in Grant Park, were ultimately pulled off the rail by another member of the group, who managed to avoid being seriously electrocute but appeared to brave at least one shock while trying to rescue his companions.
In the now circulating footage, the duo are seen going limp after sitting on the dangerous, current-providing rail, through which a constant stream of voltage is funneled perpetually.
He is seen fighting through what appear to be a series of shocks himself as he struggles to heave his companions' dead weight - eventually doing with the help of several other straphangers, apparent horrified by what they have seen.
The footage is incredibly graphic, and shows how the travelers had gone onto the tracks to take pictures, with the girl - who was also hospitalized...
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Drinking or drugs involved? How can someone thinking straight think they can touch the electrified third rail???
“He had one guy on the crew who wasn’t overly bright, and thought it would be cool to pee on the third rail.”
I accidentally pissed on a livestock hot wire as a drunken 19 year old, I didn’t see it and the beer had to go! I’m sorry for his family and hope he didn’t have offspring.
I agree. Loapalooza people are pretty stupid.
Ren & Stimpy: Don’t Whiz on the Electric Fence!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wW6rENTfaU&t=190s
Used to be a phrase, which no longer most do not believe— “it’s not the VOLTS it’s the AMPERGAGE” the current that counts.
Well— enough voltage alone can fry the conduction system of any living thing... humans for example, stupid enough to connect with the power rail.
The prior poster of the “evaporated partly” pisser on the rails— no doubt it can and has happened. Fascinating is the example of the high voltage line workers who work in special metal mesh suits that prevent 70K volts from frying them. And helo pilots that are beyond supermen. Reaching out a ground pole of fiberglass to connect to the line— beyond imagination, and videoed.
They were in an unauthorized area. No money payouts.
Dealing with idiots on a jury, anything can happen.
How about the true story of the illegal believe it was Mexicans who broke into a major power company substation full of huge transformers AND....
took cutters to the connections (uninsulated) made of solid woven COPPER wire. It happened, and they were instantly cooked to cinders. Can’t recall where but idiots who try to harvest copper from power stations- it is beyond belief.
Man harvests Nature’s power and crafts it— and people who have no knowledge of even a scintilla of the reality do these things.
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout
He recharged his electric car's battery by tying into a trolley line. And this was back in 1910. Free online from various sources. For a quick summary,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift_and_His_Electric_Runabout
Stupid should hurt. Being really stupid can often kill you.
That’s a 6.3 on the Darwin scale. Someone has to slip the surly bonds to get a 7.
I didn’t know that but it makes sense.
Thanks for good info.
Just thinning the herd, Baby. ;)
Why is it horrifying?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Wow, I had all the Tom Swift books back in the 60’s, I recall sneaking them up to my bedroom and read them all night as I was dead tired the next day in school LOL. Haven’t heard of them since.
Sometimes ones highest and best use is to serve as a warning to others.
PERPETUALLY?? At least until the last coal and nuclear plants are shut down and "perpetual" becomes "intermittent" or "non-existent for days."
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I saw a video of some indian guy get converted into a big piece of smouldering charcoal in a split second doing something similar.
These people were lucky..
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