I wonder what the pay-out will be.
I once met a guy who supervised a crew of electricians on the Boston subway (”T”).
He had one guy on the crew who wasn’t overly bright, and thought it would be cool to pee on the third rail.
Part of him evaporated.
The rest of him was, of course, dead.
Plat stupid games…
I have a hard time finding sympathy for adults or even older teenagers doing this kind of stuff. Little kids, get some sympathy.
Kids are getting dumber and dumber.
It appears that gambling was taking place on those tracks.
“I’m shocked! Shocked, that there are electrocutions going on, and on this very railroad!”
“...through which a constant stream of voltage is funneled perpetually.”
Quiet! The EnviroWeenies will be tapping into that to charge their EVs!
Well, maybe that’s not an entirely BAD idea, LOL!
Oh, RELAX. My BFF has one of those half-electric cars. I haven’t ‘divorced’ her yet. The ‘combustion’ end of it recharges the ‘electric’ end of it as you drive it.
*Rolleyes*
Typical phone call: “Hey, BFF! I’m coming into town. Did you need me to bring you a five-gallon can of ee-lec-tricity on my way in?”
*SMIRK*
America’s future leaders!
I’m sorry, but I cannot find any sympathy for selfie junkies. A selfie junkie died in Hong Kong last week after breaking into the top floor of a very tall building, to take a selfie on a stick, crazy picture for sure), knocking on windows on his rapid descent down to the abrupt stop on the sidewalk. This is an ever growing list…sad. Just think about ALL the others we don’t read about who make the same fatal mistake…sad.
A culture that believes they can do anything they want without consequence is doomed to history’s lessons. Six hundred volts is a harsh school master.
Note how the author of this piece writes that one of the rescuers “avoided being seriously electrocuted.”
Electrocuted means DEAD. It’s always pretty serious if yer DEAD.
It was a word specifically invented to specify this. Electricity + Executed = Electrocuted.
Drinking or drugs involved? How can someone thinking straight think they can touch the electrified third rail???
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.
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.
Why is it horrifying?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.