Spanish man dies while taking selfie on top of train

The Local (Spain) ^ | 18 Mar 2014 10:06 GMT+01:00

[DeaconBenjamin]

A 21-year-old from southern Spain died on Saturday after being electrocuted when he climbed on to a train to take a photo of himself with friends.

The young man from the Andalusian town of Andújar suffered the fatal blow when he touched a high-voltage wire on a train he and his friends had assumed was not electrified.

They'd clambered on top of the parked wagon at Andújar train station to take a picture of themselves when they suffered the severe electric shock.

Spanish online daily Ideal reported that a 3,5000-volt discharge killed the young man as he went to take the photo.

Local paramedics and police rushed to the scene but found the 21-year-old was already dead.

One of his friends survived the shock but remains in a serious condition at the local Alto Guadalquivir Hospital.

Andújar's mayor has declared three days of mourning for the town of 40,000 people in the middle of olive growing country.

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muchas gracias!

[loungitude]

¿How do you say “Hey, y’all! Watch this!” en Español?

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El holdo my el beero?

[loungitude]

Interestingly, three phase railway electrification did exist.

[Western Phil]

The real question is how much current he was carrying?

[dfwgator]

Shouldn’t this be in Current Events?

[Slings and Arrows]

My work here is done.

[Slings and Arrows]

*shrug* No TV.

[COBOL2Java]

3,5000-volt. Hard to know what to make of that.

The maximum non-permanent voltage on overhead train wires is 3.6 kV. The reporter probably meant 35,000 volts.

[RichInOC]

ZOT!

This human has been banned or suspended.

[Chode]

LOLOL!!!

[Slings and Arrows]

His page in the Book of Life has turned purple.

[Slings and Arrows]

*rimshot*

[Revolting cat!]

Is there electricity in heaven?

[mikrofon]

“A brain in Spain stopped painfully on a train...”

[xrmusn]

This is a creative way to ‘take’(?) a selfie.

There have been many selfies taken in the last few months and some stand out more than others.

Getting ‘bored’ with say a pol openly ‘flirting’ with another pol and taking selfies.

To bad they weren’t being as creative as our ‘Spanish Amigo’ or tried something a little more on the outlandish style.

Then possibly, just possibly, another village would be missing an idiot.....

Ah to dream the ‘Impossible Dream’

[a fool in paradise]

Thread is worthless without the selfie pic

[Daffynition]

Selfies....don't get photobombed.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Dumb and sad. RIP.

[JSteff]

A Darwin Award contender for sure.

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