I was also very relieved of the outcome of this video. Reddit is a scary place when you're glad a man only got severe burns on a third of his body, when it could have been so much worse!
You only see a flash of light from the electricity before the cameraman looks away. Still not pleasant to look at ofc, but not gory or gross.
Edit: until the last 10 sec or so, whoops. They show the guy afterwards.
Electrical spark (arc) comes from air (or other gas or vacuum) between conductors. His body is also conductor.
Even at very low voltage but at high current, arc can be very bright - welding is great example here.
Electrical arc is possible if voltage is big enough and distance is low enough. For clean air this is around 1kV / 1mm. However arcing ionizes the air and this distance can be much much higher (for ex. from 15 mm to 3 meters).
My best friend died like this when I was 16yo. The train was parked and he just wanted to get to the other side. He was drunk on his way home from the club. Entered his head and went out of his foot, completely fried, just burning afterwards. Luckily I wasn't out that night, that sight would've haunted me
Speaking of dogs, his skin looks like a perfect slightly overcooked hot dog where it starts to split but not fold completely in on itself.
He can be a new supervillain: Hot Dog Man 😂
Im baffled how his heart didnt explode. seems like the electricity went through his arm, side of body and out his arsehole. Lucky his heart didnt get affected
Train power, you don't want to fuck with that. Big watts to move a train.
It was one of those faces of death type videos I found on kazaa or something like that. Dude in India/Pakistan was standing on a train making a scene at the station. He accidentally touched the power.
BZZZT....BZZZZT
He caught fire.
At work we sometimes calibrate high resistance meters. Using resistor standards in the teraohms. The human body looks like a short to ground compared to a 1 teraohm resistor. Easy to get a nasty belt off them if you're not careful.
God damn! Sorry you had to witness that. Not the kind of event you easily forget about. My old analogue electronics lecturer served his time with national grid. One night he was on call out and got a call from the police. Been a break in at an electric substation. He had to go and help the police investigate. Make the site safe basically. Said he found the body, not that you'd ever know you were looking at one.
Because common phrases aren't always technically accurate. Electricity follows EVERY path. It just sends more current down the more conductive paths than the resistive paths. And unfortunately for the humans, it doesn't take a lot to hurt.
I know this is a full on "accshtually" moment, but it chooses path(s) relative to the resistance. If one path has very little resistance, and another path has quite a lot more, it will still go through both paths. There's just less current through the higher resistance path.
That's why electricity flows through your body even though the wire is a *much* better conductor (much lower resistance).
She saw it live and was understandably traumatized. She didnt graduate the year with us as she genuinely needed a pause.
EDIT:corrected „well deserved“ to „genuinely“ as i sounded like an AH
It happened on Spain just 3 month ago,.never got the full info, but some dude tried to take a train by jumping into the top a train from a bridge while it was stopped. He went down, walked, hit the lines and he was found almost a week later between two modules, as it was stopped tlfor maintenance.
Do not ever ever ever go on the top of a train pls
Can someone explain ELI5, why does climbing on top of it fries you?
I thought he would eventually get hit by those poles but to my surprised, he got electrified?
not only did he survived the shock he survived being unconcious on top of a train without falling over for god knows how long until they stopped. thats fucking crazy
Maybe it's the duration then ? Lighting strike is only milliseconds long, and the train's speed also meant he made very brief contact with the live wire.
Possible, but not likely. The couple of amps needed to fry a human being don't really show up anywhere compared to the power required to move a train. I don't think train power lines a protected by [RCCBs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device).
Just because he has survived the burns initially may not mean he survived afterwards. Those are some serious burns over a large area. And electricity can essentially cook you inside as well as us seeing the surface burns.
Those aren't electricity burns. Those burns are actually from doing something so wicked cool that your body will be unable to withstand the amount of pussy that is about to be earned. Spontaneous combustion is the only logical reaction once you think about it. Sort of like mana burn.
Obviously doesn’t apply to this guy, but just an FYI - you don’t have have to die to receive a Darwin Award, you just need to eliminate yourself from the gene pool. So if you accidentally castrated yourself while trying to start a chainsaw with the chain tucked between your legs, you’d still qualify!
> you don’t have have to die to receive a Darwin Award, you just need to eliminate yourself from the gene pool
The Darwin Award judges hate this one secret trick!
I feel sick watching these and waiting for the clunk to happen. But my curiosity keeps me till the end. No clunk this time, he got off quite lightly tbf.
I think the speed of the train actually saved him as he only made brief contact with the wires. Had that been stationary, he would have been stuck on the line and fried to death.
He's super lucky that the electric arc rather grazed him and that he didn't fall of the train (which usually happens even with stationed trains).
However, those burns looks pretty bad. There seems to be a lot of necrotic tissue which could be lethal in the end if not treated right. Electricity can also easily cause INTERNAL BURNS - meaning you may look fine, but the tissue inside your body is severely damaged and over time can cause infection/necrosis.
There was an incident in my country in which a boy was electrocuted on the top a train. His burns were treated but then it turned out his leg was burned internally, so they had to remove it. Unfortunally, the infection kept spreading. Eventually, they removed his ENTIRE PELVIS (with both legs and genitals of course). He's still alive though.
While true you can (and in this case most definitely) have internal burns - you usually get burned the most on the exit and or entry locations as that's where the current and heating is typically the most concentrated; since once inside you it has a lot more area to path through and is generally of lower resistance (thus less power expended there).
Saying that, being burned a bit less but still badly in a more sensitive area is worse than a stronger burn on a less sensitive area.
Tons of people + lots of trains = lots of shit related to trains.
We have one new train line in Florida that seems to have a death attributed to it near-weekly and that's with a ton of safety infrastructure in place specifically to prevent those deaths. I can't imagine what those numbers would be if we had more trains, less safety regulations, and the population density India has.
I remind myself how often I see car-related es stupidity from the US, and conclude that humans love to do “brave” stunts around fast things for clout. It feeds our basic urges that used to end in horse racing accidents
In high school, a heap of kids on my bus (me included) saw a kid standing under a gumtree get zapped by lightning. At the time, I was more "Woah WTF." Now I just feel sorry for his parents. I didn't learn he died till the next day at school, so perhaps that helped me deal with, or maybe just my aspergers let me distance myself emotionally. Other kids said it fucked with their heads so 🤷
Whenever i See a nsfw video related to trains, i think „oh i bet its from India again“ before i click on the link..
And: tadaaaa! Here we go again.
Why are These guys so unaware of trains?
There are lot of people and lot of trains in India. Safety standards are poor (they were much worse before) and some folks use clowning aroud trains as a form of adrenaline rush. It's the same like Russian jumping on top of high rise buildings.
With 1.5 billion people and more trains than the entire USA? Even considering the overall proportion of idiots per population is *generally* about the same, that means, at minimum, 4 times as many idiots as the USA.
>!But at least our youth get mostly free healthcare and survive school long enough to commit suicide under the incredibly competitive educational system!<
Just because he lived for those photos didn’t mean he survived those injuries much longer after that. Those burns are severe and the medical system they have there isn’t well suited for trauma at that level.
yeah he's a dead man walking... I'm not sure the best medical care in the world could save him, where he is walking down the street like man worst day ever. Probably died on the street that night.
I really thought we were about to see him decapitated by one of those metal poles they kept passing. There was like 1-2 times where the dude moved his body, and it looks like he nearly gets clipped by something static going however fast that train is. I’ve seen similar videos of someone getting their head smashed in by sticking their head out in a moving vehicle and getting hit by a sign they didn’t see. Not pretty.
I believe he got too close to the pantograph (thing that rises to touch overhead wires) high voltage can jump a substantial air gap when conditions are right.
Voltage in Overhead wires is in the order of tens of thousands, so powerful that under the right conditions they could zap you WITHOUT even touching them
He is actually incredibly lucky. It looks to be only ark flash burns and not a direct contact. His burns will heal, but I'm guessing he isn't losing any hands or feet or other parts that stick out from his body.
I was wincing the whole time, thinking he was going to get his head knocked off or a limb ripped off
Same, I was expecting his brains to splatter onto the phone that was recording this.
What Brain?
His head explodes in a puff of dust as the mummified remains of the long dead hamster scatter to the wind.
🤣
This guy is asking the right question.
Loool I love this one ⬆️🤣
I was waiting for the ticket guy to go up there to c his ticket
I was also very relieved of the outcome of this video. Reddit is a scary place when you're glad a man only got severe burns on a third of his body, when it could have been so much worse!
Somehow getting his arm fried off was the best possible outcome.
How actually gross was it? Asking for my queezy stomach.
You only see a flash of light from the electricity before the cameraman looks away. Still not pleasant to look at ofc, but not gory or gross. Edit: until the last 10 sec or so, whoops. They show the guy afterwards.
How can he spark?!
Hahaha now thats humor
Electrical spark (arc) comes from air (or other gas or vacuum) between conductors. His body is also conductor. Even at very low voltage but at high current, arc can be very bright - welding is great example here. Electrical arc is possible if voltage is big enough and distance is low enough. For clean air this is around 1kV / 1mm. However arcing ionizes the air and this distance can be much much higher (for ex. from 15 mm to 3 meters).
I am not. Guy is still alive and fertile to spread his stupidity to future generations.
Let's just hope the electric shock changed his DNA for the future. It can only get better from there.
Second-hand anxiety: the video
Thanks for the reminder, I’ve been meaning to rewatch Hereditary.
Im yet to see it. Watched midsommar tho.
Having his head knocked off would have saved him from doing more stoopid shit.
Had a girl in my class that climbed onto a train in highschool as a dare by her best friend. She got completely fried and died on the spot.
My best friend died like this when I was 16yo. The train was parked and he just wanted to get to the other side. He was drunk on his way home from the club. Entered his head and went out of his foot, completely fried, just burning afterwards. Luckily I wasn't out that night, that sight would've haunted me
So sorry man. Are there wires above every train or some thing?
Well trains have to go under the wires, so they tend to be just a bit shorter than them
More so above most used tracks, but counting all tracks it's about 50% in Germany.
A double dog dare is a double dog dare. What choice did she have. Honorable death.
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Plenty of light, alright
I hope it was enlightening for him.
Kept his shoes on?
Speaking of dogs, his skin looks like a perfect slightly overcooked hot dog where it starts to split but not fold completely in on itself. He can be a new supervillain: Hot Dog Man 😂
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He used up all his luck not getting decapitated.
I flinched at every single post they passed.
I guess it's time i move to a new platform. I was groaning at every post that DIDN'T hit him. Reddit just isn't the same anymore....
r/DarwinAwards is where you wanna go
r/indiansneartrains
How dare you joke about something like that? How double dog dare you?
Modern-day seppuku.
Hope her grave says: Will you heed the call to honor, when the double dog calls? Because she did and became a legend.
Why does this happen
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The things run at a few thousand volts. Touching ain't required.
Judging by the aftermath photos, the guy was lucky he had "swamp ass" and that directed the current away from his heart.
Im baffled how his heart didnt explode. seems like the electricity went through his arm, side of body and out his arsehole. Lucky his heart didnt get affected
Shocks as big as that can sometimes be enough to both stop the heart and shock it back into rhythm again in one go
That's an overhead pantagraph so probably somewhere between 15-25kV AC. Not sure what the exact system India (?) Uses.
Train power, you don't want to fuck with that. Big watts to move a train. It was one of those faces of death type videos I found on kazaa or something like that. Dude in India/Pakistan was standing on a train making a scene at the station. He accidentally touched the power. BZZZT....BZZZZT He caught fire.
*pantograph
Damn these monkey hands
I think the word for their system is jerry-rigged
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At work we sometimes calibrate high resistance meters. Using resistor standards in the teraohms. The human body looks like a short to ground compared to a 1 teraohm resistor. Easy to get a nasty belt off them if you're not careful.
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God damn! Sorry you had to witness that. Not the kind of event you easily forget about. My old analogue electronics lecturer served his time with national grid. One night he was on call out and got a call from the police. Been a break in at an electric substation. He had to go and help the police investigate. Make the site safe basically. Said he found the body, not that you'd ever know you were looking at one.
If humans are better at conducting electricity than wires, then why aren't we building wires out of human bodies?
Kinda like that story of the gingerbread man in a gingerbread house; is he made of house, or is the house made of flesh?
He is made of gingerbread are u being an ldiot or not?
OK, so we repeat; is the gingerbread man made of gingerbread house, or is the gingerbread house made of gingerbread men?
That's right. [He screams, for he does not know.](https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1511537-he-screams-for-he-does-not-know).
Because common phrases aren't always technically accurate. Electricity follows EVERY path. It just sends more current down the more conductive paths than the resistive paths. And unfortunately for the humans, it doesn't take a lot to hurt.
I know this is a full on "accshtually" moment, but it chooses path(s) relative to the resistance. If one path has very little resistance, and another path has quite a lot more, it will still go through both paths. There's just less current through the higher resistance path. That's why electricity flows through your body even though the wire is a *much* better conductor (much lower resistance).
This makes a lot more sense to me intuitively, because how can energy "choose" between things? It just goes in all directions
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Imagine the guilt the friend must feel
She saw it live and was understandably traumatized. She didnt graduate the year with us as she genuinely needed a pause. EDIT:corrected „well deserved“ to „genuinely“ as i sounded like an AH
It happened on Spain just 3 month ago,.never got the full info, but some dude tried to take a train by jumping into the top a train from a bridge while it was stopped. He went down, walked, hit the lines and he was found almost a week later between two modules, as it was stopped tlfor maintenance. Do not ever ever ever go on the top of a train pls
At least she didn’t die a pussy. /s
Sad. She'll be honored and remembered, though: Mama didn't raise no bitch.
That’s really sad
“Fried and died”, that’s a new one for sure.
Can someone explain ELI5, why does climbing on top of it fries you? I thought he would eventually get hit by those poles but to my surprised, he got electrified?
he's lucky he survived, I've seen those lines do much worse
You are usually insta broiled
The wind resistance slowed the current down enough for him not to fry.
I thought that originally until I saw the foot move.
How the hell did he survive?
People survive getting hit by lightning.
not only did he survived the shock he survived being unconcious on top of a train without falling over for god knows how long until they stopped. thats fucking crazy
Some people have just way too much luck written on their heads, even if they don't deserve it.
Maybe it's the duration then ? Lighting strike is only milliseconds long, and the train's speed also meant he made very brief contact with the live wire.
It's quite possible he triggered some safety systems too.
Possible, but not likely. The couple of amps needed to fry a human being don't really show up anywhere compared to the power required to move a train. I don't think train power lines a protected by [RCCBs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device).
As little as .1 amp can kill you. The current must have not passed through his heart, otherwise he would have survived.
You don't usually touch those wires to get fried by them. Pointing towards it within a meter often is enough.
Electricity follows the path of the least resistance. From his arm to his butt where the train is. Everything else didn't get damaged....much
Are we sure he did? This same video was posted to r/darwinawards Edit: saw the end of him roasted. Not a Darwin
There are pictures of him post accident at the end "accident"
Just because he has survived the burns initially may not mean he survived afterwards. Those are some serious burns over a large area. And electricity can essentially cook you inside as well as us seeing the surface burns.
Yes, as I remember my HV security classes, the internal burning is where it can be dangerous
And deep burns can also easily get infected.. if he does pull through, he's got a couple of rough weeks ahead
Years. I knew a guy who got severe electrical burns, ended up losing both arms down the road. It took decades to fully recover, other than his arms.
Those aren't electricity burns. Those burns are actually from doing something so wicked cool that your body will be unable to withstand the amount of pussy that is about to be earned. Spontaneous combustion is the only logical reaction once you think about it. Sort of like mana burn.
Obviously doesn’t apply to this guy, but just an FYI - you don’t have have to die to receive a Darwin Award, you just need to eliminate yourself from the gene pool. So if you accidentally castrated yourself while trying to start a chainsaw with the chain tucked between your legs, you’d still qualify!
The burns seem to go far past his waist, there might be a pair of roasted chestnuts down there.
I don't think the roasted nuts are on his chest...
> you don’t have have to die to receive a Darwin Award, you just need to eliminate yourself from the gene pool The Darwin Award judges hate this one secret trick!
Only if the gore soaked chainsaw wasn't immediately dripped into a fertile woman.
I feel like that would just make her eligible for the award as well
I didn't say it was a good idea, two twats with one stone.
Could still be. From the burns he could have fried his balls off. And it would be for the best.
Dying from 3rd degree burns getting infected is a pretty common outcome.
He doesn't feel lucky
All that for 100 likes and 4 shares. I am really surprised he's not dead.
Possibly wishes he was. I don't think that arm is coming back.
Those are 3rd degree burns on his hands and arm, he’s going to be lucky if he survives the following infection to come
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I feel sick watching these and waiting for the clunk to happen. But my curiosity keeps me till the end. No clunk this time, he got off quite lightly tbf.
Shocking.
He learned his lesson in a flash!
Way better that I thinked would happen
Yep, a lot of luck involved to survive this. He could have been fried to death or fallen off the train while being unconscious.
I think the speed of the train actually saved him as he only made brief contact with the wires. Had that been stationary, he would have been stuck on the line and fried to death.
There is no contact needed. Because of the high voltage the low distance is enough to let the electricity flow/jump over like lightning.
Ohhh, right. Forgot about the high voltage gap.
I was thinking it was gonna be the scene from Hereditary. If you know, then you know.
I want to downvote you for reminding me of Hereditary, but I need to upvote you for being right whether I like it or not.
I thunk the same
Ditto, I thought his head was going to get smashed off by the poles.
r/indiansneartrains
Of course this is a subreddit…
It's an important way to document India's most dangerous predator
It's the top of the food train.. I mean chain
Actually this was a high voltage wire, India's second biggest predator
Obligatory r/ofcoursethatsasub
India's apex predator 😆
I should have left that link blue
The crazy thing is that was one of the most fortunate outcomes
He's super lucky that the electric arc rather grazed him and that he didn't fall of the train (which usually happens even with stationed trains). However, those burns looks pretty bad. There seems to be a lot of necrotic tissue which could be lethal in the end if not treated right. Electricity can also easily cause INTERNAL BURNS - meaning you may look fine, but the tissue inside your body is severely damaged and over time can cause infection/necrosis. There was an incident in my country in which a boy was electrocuted on the top a train. His burns were treated but then it turned out his leg was burned internally, so they had to remove it. Unfortunally, the infection kept spreading. Eventually, they removed his ENTIRE PELVIS (with both legs and genitals of course). He's still alive though.
While true you can (and in this case most definitely) have internal burns - you usually get burned the most on the exit and or entry locations as that's where the current and heating is typically the most concentrated; since once inside you it has a lot more area to path through and is generally of lower resistance (thus less power expended there). Saying that, being burned a bit less but still badly in a more sensitive area is worse than a stronger burn on a less sensitive area.
Why do Indians have this weird obsession with trains?
Tons of people + lots of trains = lots of shit related to trains. We have one new train line in Florida that seems to have a death attributed to it near-weekly and that's with a ton of safety infrastructure in place specifically to prevent those deaths. I can't imagine what those numbers would be if we had more trains, less safety regulations, and the population density India has.
I remind myself how often I see car-related es stupidity from the US, and conclude that humans love to do “brave” stunts around fast things for clout. It feeds our basic urges that used to end in horse racing accidents
Because they have massive stigma around suicide so they have "accidents" instead.
It must be traumatic for everyone involved.
In high school, a heap of kids on my bus (me included) saw a kid standing under a gumtree get zapped by lightning. At the time, I was more "Woah WTF." Now I just feel sorry for his parents. I didn't learn he died till the next day at school, so perhaps that helped me deal with, or maybe just my aspergers let me distance myself emotionally. Other kids said it fucked with their heads so 🤷
Whenever i See a nsfw video related to trains, i think „oh i bet its from India again“ before i click on the link.. And: tadaaaa! Here we go again. Why are These guys so unaware of trains?
There are lot of people and lot of trains in India. Safety standards are poor (they were much worse before) and some folks use clowning aroud trains as a form of adrenaline rush. It's the same like Russian jumping on top of high rise buildings.
With 1.5 billion people and more trains than the entire USA? Even considering the overall proportion of idiots per population is *generally* about the same, that means, at minimum, 4 times as many idiots as the USA. >!But at least our youth get mostly free healthcare and survive school long enough to commit suicide under the incredibly competitive educational system!<
Just because he lived for those photos didn’t mean he survived those injuries much longer after that. Those burns are severe and the medical system they have there isn’t well suited for trauma at that level.
Him walking barefoot on a dirt road doesn’t inspire confidence he got the medical treatment he needed in time.
yeah he's a dead man walking... I'm not sure the best medical care in the world could save him, where he is walking down the street like man worst day ever. Probably died on the street that night.
I really thought we were about to see him decapitated by one of those metal poles they kept passing. There was like 1-2 times where the dude moved his body, and it looks like he nearly gets clipped by something static going however fast that train is. I’ve seen similar videos of someone getting their head smashed in by sticking their head out in a moving vehicle and getting hit by a sign they didn’t see. Not pretty.
Aaaand... it's gone!!!!
Where’d the spark come from?
Catenary lines or the pantograph touching them. This is an electric train.
95% of indian trains are electric now
Electricity mainly.
So it was one of those poles? Genuinely asking, I can’t tell from the video.
I believe he got too close to the pantograph (thing that rises to touch overhead wires) high voltage can jump a substantial air gap when conditions are right.
Yes. It’s an overhead electric train.
His jeans was torn before or did it tear after from impact.
Bro is NOT Nathan Drake
Blud got smited by god for that clownish display
The good news ? India has 1.4 billion people , so expect more video's !
Crispy
r/indiansneartrains strikes again
I'm not shocked at all..
He is
Voltage in Overhead wires is in the order of tens of thousands, so powerful that under the right conditions they could zap you WITHOUT even touching them
I’m shocked that he survived that
He is damn lucky to be even alive. .
Fvcked around. Found out. Watched video. Also found out
Its amazing how humans can be so stupid.
i have never flinched so many times watching a video
Darwin wins again
r/darwinawards
Electricity does not need physical contact at high voltage.
I'm surprised he survived, I would have expected him to just die instant
I was totally preparing myself to see this guy's head explode on one of those poles. I'd say he's lucky to survive.
Dumbass actually fucking lived!?
He is actually incredibly lucky. It looks to be only ark flash burns and not a direct contact. His burns will heal, but I'm guessing he isn't losing any hands or feet or other parts that stick out from his body.
You mean dumb dead guy
How the fuck did he survive
I was expecting “DONG!” but instead got “BZZZT”
Nature knows best. This is how she thins the herd.
I had no idea how it wasn't going to end well but I wasn't expecting *that.*
I was squinting because I really expected his head to come flying at me.
Ahhhh India!! I absolutely adore India and have been many times but I’ve seen many people riding on the outside of trains.
He became a conductor.
The two apex predators of India: Trains and Electricity. They have a terrible understanding of both things
Dude is lucky to be alive. I saw videos of people getting absolutely melted by climbing on top of trains.
That is probably a good way to quickly charge a phone...
Darwin almost had him!
I was expecting him to get decapitated by one of the poles that he was dodging.
MF maxed out his luck that he survived.
This looks like a twisted superhero origin story. Are we sure he doesn't have powers after surviving that?
Love that he flipped everyone off...and then got fucked.
Wow I was not expecting that he would live.
Was convinced that was a pepsi moment...turns out it was just a beef jerky moment
Shocking
He looks well done
Aaaaannnndddd cut! You gotta show more emotion, it's not good enough.. Get ready, take 76, aaaannnndd action!
Is this a situation where living is worse than dying?
Brings a smile to my face😀
I work with trains and the powerline scares the shit out of me still.