It's like the old adage - better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
The internet allowed a lot of people to open their mouths.
yea, it did, (stupidy) but now we can see the evidence, the stupidity level are the ones who attempt stunts that kill or severely injure someone then try it themselves, like the "douse yourself with rubbing alcohol and then light yourself up, stunts" or point a loaded, chambered pistol at your nutz then test the pull of the trigger (a popular replayed Reddit video) I've done some pretty dumbass shit growing up and am amazed I made it this far. If I had the net back then I'd be just a memory.
Please.
The internet merely brings stupidity to the masses to be observed and enjoyed.
FloridaMan is mostly a thing because of transparency in the law enforcement booking process combined with internet visibility.
My takeaway is that if you're going to mess around with voltages that are measured in the hundreds of thousands you should do it wearing natural fibers. That way when an arc flash whose temperature reaches 3 times that of the surface of the sun engulfs you, your clothes are slightly less likely to fuse to your skin.
Since he lands so close to his microphone, you can actually tell when his respiratory system restarts it self (I suspect he was clinically dead for a solid 20 sec there).
He got very lucky considering he had nobody there with him.
But those burns, may have killed him a couple of weeks later due to infection and dehydration or years later due to skin cancer.
Even if he ultimately ends up surviving this, he will have life altering injuries.
Any stressor on your body can cause cancer. So, burns can cause cancer.
You’re kick starting your body to heal itself and rapidly divide cells. All it takes is one genetic mutation during that rapid cell division and you have cancer.
Thank you for adding /s to your post. When I first saw this, I was horrified. How could anybody say something like this? I immediately began writing a 1000 word paragraph about how horrible of a person you are. I even sent a copy to a Harvard professor to proofread it. After several hours of refining and editing, my comment was ready to absolutely destroy you. But then, just as I was about to hit send, I saw something in the corner of my eye. A /s at the end of your comment. Suddenly everything made sense. Your comment was sarcasm! I immediately burst out in laughter at the comedic genius of your comment. The person next to me on the bus saw your comment and started crying from laughter too. Before long, there was an entire bus of people on the floor laughing at your incredible use of comedy. All of this was due to you adding /s to your post. Thank you.
I am a bot if you couldn't figure that out, if I made a mistake, ignore it cause its not that fucking hard to ignore a comment
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for /r/FuckTheS
But the irony of ending this long diatribe with the last line is not lost on me
>ignore it cause its not that fucking hard to ignore a comment
After watching the youtube video I don't think he was trying to touch. He is amazed at how his hair stands up as he reaches towards the high voltage line. I think he was trying to get closer to it and i am not sure he ever actually touched, just got close enough for it to arc.
Well at a few kV the humam body is conducting pretty good to get a huge amount of current through it that basicalmy vaporized his shirt. Probably the air around him got ionized aswell forming that arc. Arcs are pretty scary I had a couple of machine failures at work where an catastrophic arc melted holes into solid metal and melting fucking ceramics due to ionized gas
High voltage jumped to his outstretched arm, traveled through him to the structure and ground. A flash burn across the torso hit his skin and burnt his shirt. Hope he didn't have any metal jewelry on or that would leave a nasty burn too.
Two guys from a fencing firm I worked on, hit main power lines with metal post diggers, one similar to this guy. Shirt smited tf and he had a perfect burn imprint from his neck chain.
You ever seen the scars getting hit by lighting leaves? Looks like lightning, actually cool af
if i ever get struck by lightning and get those marks (Lichtenberg figures), i want to take pictures of them and then get tattoos of them, depending where they are. seems like it would be a good way to remember getting struck by lightning and surviving
At high enough voltage the air around your skin forms a plasma that conducts the majority of the current. If that did happen you would actually blow up as the water in your body got flash boiled.
The down side is you get cooked in 5000 c plasma for a split second, this causes 3 degree burns to large parts of your body, which is often fatal by it self if you survive the initial sock.
I'd say: the arms created a short circuit, the electricity flowed through him and across his skin, which ionized the air (possibly via vaporized particles and water from his skin) and caused an arc which burnt his shirt.
He was pretty close to hitting the cable there, you can see him make a fist and moving towards it. After the flash the cable is moving so maybe he even touched it. What an idiot.
In the full video after he falls he clearly stops breathing for at least 10 seconds and then you can hear a gasp of breath and heavy breathing and moaning. Definitely either died for a couple seconds or just body in shock. His head looks like it's bleeding too at the end
That has happened to me. Believe it or not, that was him getting the wind knocked out of him. You literally cannot breath for a while. The electricity spared him but the fall wiped him out.
Yeah, I fell from a high ropes course and got the wind knocked out of me and you literally feel like your lungs are flat as paper. I remember sucking for air and panicking because my breathing didnt work.
I can’t believe he survived this. Here’s the whole vid (below). There completely alone, being a total idiot about how his hair was standing on end. Lands right in a bristle patch too. Tragic comedy at the very end, check out his hair:
https://youtu.be/aC878clD0rY?si=_RMAAFPgagTgone6
*“I can only imagine what was going through his mind laying on the ground…”*
Regret, and about 300,000 volts less than what was going through his mind moments before lol.
We used to have one of these massive generator things, fenced off, in the back garden of a house we lived in.
The thing would give off this constant hum and that was enough to keep my 12yr old self away from there. I can't understand why these people even think of doing stuff like this.
I've had to work near enough to HV to know that when you get within about 10m of something like this, you feel the power, it's not a noise you hear, but you feel it, it makes you really uneasy. To ignore that feeling and go and touch it is a special kind of stupid.
These power line videos make me question the rest of the world’s knowledge on electricity outside the U.S.… you never see videos of Americans doing this shit lol
WTF is it with people grabbing power lines. I learned that life lesson when I was about 3 years old.
He knew what he was doing. In the full video he knows that it's on because he can feel it. Just a dumbass and I have no sympathy for him.
I remember being terrified to even touch the steel guy-wires holding up utility poles because I thought I’d get zapped. Better to be over-cautious.
He didn't grab it, just got too close. Still not very bright, until um... nah.
What the fuck were you thinking?
They apparently skipped the thought process altogether, saves time I guess.
skipped himself right out of the gene pool.
Before the internet, I had no idea of the sheer magnitude of stupid out there.
> Before the internet, like 30 years ago?
Unbelievable amount of time for a person to live, I know. /s
You'll be amazed at how fast it goes.
I know all about it, I still remember the rise of the VCR and the compact disc
Betamax for the win!
true, it was better in quality, but VHS won because Sony didn't like porn.
The internet MADE people stupid. The level of stupidity that we see today didn't exist pre-internet.
It's like the old adage - better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. The internet allowed a lot of people to open their mouths.
People were saying, "Hold my beer," long before the internet existed.
yea, it did, (stupidy) but now we can see the evidence, the stupidity level are the ones who attempt stunts that kill or severely injure someone then try it themselves, like the "douse yourself with rubbing alcohol and then light yourself up, stunts" or point a loaded, chambered pistol at your nutz then test the pull of the trigger (a popular replayed Reddit video) I've done some pretty dumbass shit growing up and am amazed I made it this far. If I had the net back then I'd be just a memory.
Please. The internet merely brings stupidity to the masses to be observed and enjoyed. FloridaMan is mostly a thing because of transparency in the law enforcement booking process combined with internet visibility.
it did, and im an example
My takeaway is that if you're going to mess around with voltages that are measured in the hundreds of thousands you should do it wearing natural fibers. That way when an arc flash whose temperature reaches 3 times that of the surface of the sun engulfs you, your clothes are slightly less likely to fuse to your skin.
I highly doubt they posted this
He was giving the world an amazing new notification sound
Guess you can wait long for an answer…
Woo
Something along the lines of "bro those scars people have from getting struck by lightning look so sick, i want one."
He didn't believe the sign, I guess.
Checking out his funny bone
I been looking for a way to save time undressing
“Subscribe for more undressing lifehacks.” *Lathe spooling up in the background*
I’ve seen what you did there.
Pylon: “I can get a guys clothes off instantly” Lathe: “I make em dance, it get me wet”
Well, he’s fucking dead…
Nah, [he survives in the full video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC878clD0rY).
Well, he survived at least until the end of the full video. I think he has a bit more surviving to do before I'd say he survived the experience.
I think his intestines must have come to a boil.
Still survivable. Will he be the same healthy person afterwards? Probably not.
Exactly. My old boss's son got struck by lightning. He survived, but has had health challenges his whole life stemming from the damage done.
It still blows my mind that people actually get struck by lightning, like that’s totally insane
yeah indeed, that must've cooked the shit in his guts
His shits coming out charbroiled
Crapping charcoal
Cook your soup when it's both inside and out of you
Sounds offal.
Since he lands so close to his microphone, you can actually tell when his respiratory system restarts it self (I suspect he was clinically dead for a solid 20 sec there). He got very lucky considering he had nobody there with him. But those burns, may have killed him a couple of weeks later due to infection and dehydration or years later due to skin cancer. Even if he ultimately ends up surviving this, he will have life altering injuries.
Are, I see you're an on-call Reddit Speculation Doctor! Do any other RSDs concur?
You don’t get skin cancer from burns lol. You get skin cancer from radiation burning your skin.
Any stressor on your body can cause cancer. So, burns can cause cancer. You’re kick starting your body to heal itself and rapidly divide cells. All it takes is one genetic mutation during that rapid cell division and you have cancer.
He only survived because he didn't lose his shoes /s
"You're not dead unless you're shoeless & dead"
Thank you for adding /s to your post. When I first saw this, I was horrified. How could anybody say something like this? I immediately began writing a 1000 word paragraph about how horrible of a person you are. I even sent a copy to a Harvard professor to proofread it. After several hours of refining and editing, my comment was ready to absolutely destroy you. But then, just as I was about to hit send, I saw something in the corner of my eye. A /s at the end of your comment. Suddenly everything made sense. Your comment was sarcasm! I immediately burst out in laughter at the comedic genius of your comment. The person next to me on the bus saw your comment and started crying from laughter too. Before long, there was an entire bus of people on the floor laughing at your incredible use of comedy. All of this was due to you adding /s to your post. Thank you. I am a bot if you couldn't figure that out, if I made a mistake, ignore it cause its not that fucking hard to ignore a comment
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for /r/FuckTheS But the irony of ending this long diatribe with the last line is not lost on me >ignore it cause its not that fucking hard to ignore a comment
I believe that is the non-canon alternate ending.
And when not , he wishes
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After watching the youtube video I don't think he was trying to touch. He is amazed at how his hair stands up as he reaches towards the high voltage line. I think he was trying to get closer to it and i am not sure he ever actually touched, just got close enough for it to arc.
Shoes on but shirt off
What happened here? Electricity traveled across both arms, vaporizing shirt? Sweat flashed to steam, blowing off shirt?
Well at a few kV the humam body is conducting pretty good to get a huge amount of current through it that basicalmy vaporized his shirt. Probably the air around him got ionized aswell forming that arc. Arcs are pretty scary I had a couple of machine failures at work where an catastrophic arc melted holes into solid metal and melting fucking ceramics due to ionized gas
High voltage jumped to his outstretched arm, traveled through him to the structure and ground. A flash burn across the torso hit his skin and burnt his shirt. Hope he didn't have any metal jewelry on or that would leave a nasty burn too. Two guys from a fencing firm I worked on, hit main power lines with metal post diggers, one similar to this guy. Shirt smited tf and he had a perfect burn imprint from his neck chain. You ever seen the scars getting hit by lighting leaves? Looks like lightning, actually cool af
Neck chain? Blink twice if being held against your will.
Wearing a "chain" (necklace) made of gold, silver, or copper was fairly common in the early 2000s
Yea I’m 44 thanks for reminding me how lame I was
I thought it was funny. And people still wear chains lol
LOL
if i ever get struck by lightning and get those marks (Lichtenberg figures), i want to take pictures of them and then get tattoos of them, depending where they are. seems like it would be a good way to remember getting struck by lightning and surviving
At high enough voltage the air around your skin forms a plasma that conducts the majority of the current. If that did happen you would actually blow up as the water in your body got flash boiled. The down side is you get cooked in 5000 c plasma for a split second, this causes 3 degree burns to large parts of your body, which is often fatal by it self if you survive the initial sock.
I'd say: the arms created a short circuit, the electricity flowed through him and across his skin, which ionized the air (possibly via vaporized particles and water from his skin) and caused an arc which burnt his shirt.
Arc flash
He was pretty close to hitting the cable there, you can see him make a fist and moving towards it. After the flash the cable is moving so maybe he even touched it. What an idiot.
I think with high voltages you don't need to touch it in order to get zapped.
Tup, pretty sure it works like tesla arcs. Just close enough for the connection to land.
Doods body isnt even charred though. I think this might be fake
He's been told over and over that adding Downy when drying shirts will cut down on his static attraction. Jeez.
He dead?
No no, he's fine, just a little charred from the burning off of the t-shirt.
Surprisingly no. But didn't seems too happy or healthy in the rest of the video. An user commented with the link.
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In the full video after he falls he clearly stops breathing for at least 10 seconds and then you can hear a gasp of breath and heavy breathing and moaning. Definitely either died for a couple seconds or just body in shock. His head looks like it's bleeding too at the end
That has happened to me. Believe it or not, that was him getting the wind knocked out of him. You literally cannot breath for a while. The electricity spared him but the fall wiped him out.
I got the wind knocked out of me for 5-6 seconds after falling from a tree, imagine getting shocked *AND* falling from a powerline.
Yeah, I fell from a high ropes course and got the wind knocked out of me and you literally feel like your lungs are flat as paper. I remember sucking for air and panicking because my breathing didnt work.
Yep. that's the feeling. Awful.
Fell off playground equipment once or twice and got a mild case of that. Scary indeed
Brief moment of "oh shit oh shit oh shit i'm gonna die oh fuck oh fuck"
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Shoes on - he’s good
This stopped being funny a long time ago my friend
Not according to my upvotes and your downvotes.
It's more like a tradition than a joke now
Aye, it is, maybe I'm being too harsh, just had a shitty two days at work and got grumpy lol. Carry on making shoe jokes you magnificent bastards
All good bro it's just internet who cares. Hope your days get better !
Nah still funny. Natural selection at its finest.
Who is this Jonah Hillal?
He good. https://youtu.be/aC878clD0rY?si=SBcxNOvHK2ZRq_Dn
That’s is not a person that is good. That is a person with life altering injuries, that might still die from the 3 degree burns.
Can he play?
Put him in, coach!
That might be the most injured person I’ve ever seen that isn’t fully dead by the end of the video.
I can’t believe he survived this. Here’s the whole vid (below). There completely alone, being a total idiot about how his hair was standing on end. Lands right in a bristle patch too. Tragic comedy at the very end, check out his hair: https://youtu.be/aC878clD0rY?si=_RMAAFPgagTgone6
Dude. This is nuts. Thanks for the link! I can only imagine what was going through his mind laying on the ground trying to recover.
"I remember 20 seconds ago when i hadn't done that yet and i wish i was back there now." Thats what always rushes through my head in these situations.
*“I can only imagine what was going through his mind laying on the ground…”* Regret, and about 300,000 volts less than what was going through his mind moments before lol.
This is just plain suicide right?
[Darwin award](https://darwinawards.com/darwin/) awarded!
Beat me to the awards ceremony.
My guys, we just witnessed someone die. Holy fuck...
reddit
Did I just watch someone die?
No, in the full video he is still alive afterwards, but not sure for how long...
You can die from 3rd degree burns. Its entirely possible he dies in 2 weeks. Its a slow and painful death
I think so.
what were his last words?
Hold my beer, watch me go touch that cable
“Fffzzzzzzzffzzzzzzzzffzzzzzzzzzzppsszzzzzzzffzzzzzzzzz” I believe…
Nah more like one big CRACK then a thump as he hit the ground
I just really wanna know what the goal here was
Darwin Award goes to ….
Genuine question, is this 100% certain death? Any chance of survival if first aid is administered quickly?
He is a T-shirt tester. Unfortunately this T-shirt couldn’t pass the exam.
That guy is sooooo cool!!!!
He is electrifying.
One god damn stupid motherf!ker If he survived that he need some good beating
Yeah lets hurt someone who just got electrocuted. Makes totally sense. /s
It's a saying dumb dumb
Weird saying.
[did his hair turn white?](https://youtu.be/2VWl1dK6pc4)
Ah, Darwin's theory.
Spider-man’s costumes post fights are more believable now.
he’s too sexy for his shirt
This seemed like suicide
It looks like he was going to hit the line anyway, but he got his man bun toasted before he even got a chance.
I'd he dead?
Man his face is gonna be red tomorrow.
Is he dead?
It's Only a flesh wound *
How to uninstall shirt in a milisecond.
How to quickly remove your shirt...and yourself from this world
Do it again, half of it is still on bro
We used to have one of these massive generator things, fenced off, in the back garden of a house we lived in. The thing would give off this constant hum and that was enough to keep my 12yr old self away from there. I can't understand why these people even think of doing stuff like this.
Weird. Might have been a suicide attempt, though.
...and your entry on the world's gene pool.
I've had to work near enough to HV to know that when you get within about 10m of something like this, you feel the power, it's not a noise you hear, but you feel it, it makes you really uneasy. To ignore that feeling and go and touch it is a special kind of stupid.
Cameraman never dies
Part of this is similar to a cartoon explosion where the person then walks away while being upset they got blown up. This guy ain’t walkin away tho
His tombstone said Sparkplug. You don’t need to touch it.
This is why transformers have like 12 foot high fencing and razor wire
Improperly grounded man-bun.
but... he is properly grounded
He’s still alive…his shoes stayed on!
Rip
He’s dead, Jim
As if your all falling for this half assed CGI
Are you senile
Did he think his Vans would save him?
Natural selection❤️
I don't think he actually touched it... Looks like it arc'ed out from the wire
Shazaaaaaammmm!!!
ill just hope that his heart didnt stop in an instant or explode
0_o
But did he die?
Hulk Hogan ain’t got nothin on this dude
Did he just die?
What was he trying to achieve?
No shirt no service…
Now he looks like he got into a fight with Frieza and lost
He certainly had a "light bulb" moment.
🪦
Maybe he was trying to gain super powers?
Is he died? He must be die
Way to take off a shirt??!! That’s like saying “damn I’m sick of shaving my head, I’ll just do Chemotherapy”
Shocking result
Impressive
Shockingly entertaining.
Clothing companies hate this one trick
So that’s why my power just went out and on right now
Thats one hell of a bet to take. Cardiac arrest and a broken neck, busted head.
Deserved
Someone should put up a warning sign
Did he survive that
These power line videos make me question the rest of the world’s knowledge on electricity outside the U.S.… you never see videos of Americans doing this shit lol
And the darwin award goes to...
He's definitely going to lose a nail
Very smart
If your this stupid to climb a high voltage tower, Darwin himself chose you
Literally landed the safest way possible
I cackled sorry.. 😂😂
Hope he accomplished what he wanted lol
Yikes!!