Ouch- eletrocution

[ARWadsworth]

says he will not be doing that again.

Adam

[Colin Wilson]

Heard about this yesterday, just hadn't had chance to see it yet.

At least it was a quick way to go (not that i'm sure it was what he=20 had in mind...)

Chargrilled steak anyone ?

[The Medway Handyman]

Three thoughts;

We are better off without his genes in the pool.

Why do they allow people on the roof of a train?

I love it when all his mates leg it instead of attempting to help - not that they prolly could, but you would try.

[PeterC]

Curried, of course. Amazing that he touched it twice.

[Mike Tomlinson]

In article , ARWadsworth writes

Mate sent it to me in email this morning, a slightly longer version. You have to wonder what was going through his mind (before it got fried)

What was the voltage? 25kV?

[David Hansen]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 17:09:33 +0100 someone who may be PeterC wrote this:-

He may not have wanted to touch the line twice. It is also not clear that the second contact involved the same part.

[David Hansen]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 17:10:47 +0100 someone who may be Mike Tomlinson wrote this:-

Looks likely. The first electrification schemes in India were 1500V DC and I believe this still exists in a few places (or they have recently been changed to 25kV). There were then a few at 3000V DC, but these have been replaced. However, since the 1960s 25kV AC has been used and all lines will be/have been converted to this.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "ARWadsworth" saying something like:

Shit slow and buggy site - liveleak's better

[Andy Cap]

Yes OK stupid, but still horrific !

Andy C

[The Natural Philosopher]

Pretty sick snuff movie really.

[Frazer Jolly Goodfellow]

A few amps, at a guess.

[andrew]

Doesn't the first hit throw the contact breaker and then it reconnects in case it's a spurious fault?

I would like to know how to snatch this video in case it is allowable as a pts training video.

AJH

[damduck-egg]

Could it be that a circuit breaker opened and auto reclosed that quickly?

G.Harman

[Owain]

I wonder if they'll put that on the trakkies.co.uk website

Owain

[damduck-egg]

Looked to me like they were trying to persuade him down ,and when he decided for whatever reason to touch the wire it must have been a fairly nasty thing to witness .legging it back from such an incident is probably a natural occcurence of the fight or flight instinct we all have.

G.Harman

[geoff]

Testing testing 123

Its how the poor travel

Not been to India, have you ?

They all wanted to be the first to get the video on YouTube

[geoff]

In message , geoff writes

Shamelessly following up on my own post

Does anyone know what Error 441 might be?

I can read, but have been unable to post to NGs today

[Dave Liquorice]

Looks to me that the second contact is his head rather than the raised arm to steady himself for this first.

Seems a tad quick for an auto recloser.

[PeterC]

Yes, on that sort of power it would take longer than ~1s.

I wondere if the line was DC, but when he stood up he was close to the line and then he had to touch it so...

[Davey]

I would bet it happens quite regularly in poorer countries where people travel on train roofs.

I would also doubt there is a quicker death.

D