Drunken Idiot Climbs High Voltage Tower and Pays the Price

Susan · #1 ● 02-12-2019, 08:52 AM

A man climbed a high voltage tower and after missing his movements he lost his life after being electrocuted.

The moment he is at the top of the CFE tower and receives the electric shock and then his body begins to burn, it has gone viral in a video on social networks.

Around 6:15 p.m. Civil Protection and Firefighters of Guadalajara received reports in which they reported that a person in apparent drunkenness climbed a tower of approximately 50 meters high located in a land nearby with Rafael Cabrera and Alfonso Rodriguez , in the Colonia Dr. Atl, in Guadalajara.

The firefighters mobilized to the site to try to help him to go down safe and sound; However, the now deceased made several movements and ended up electrocuted.

"It starts to do some maneuvers on the tower, eh, the tower transmits 69 thousand volts, in that bad maneuver it receives the discharge and then it gets stuck (the person)", explained Gabriel Mateos, deputy commander of the Guadalajara Fire Department.

In a video that circulated through social networks it is appreciated that the individual is about 50 meters high where he receives a discharge and his body is lit in flames. Subsequently falls two levels of the tower, where the end is stuck still on fire, about 40 meters high, according to calculations of Civil Protection elements.

According to the uniformed consulted, the now deceased was a resident of the area and it was not the first time that the structure was scaled.

"Several times (neighbors) have manifested having seen it done before ... three, four times",

Added the fireman
A resident of the place identified him as the idiot, who used to go up to the tower, like other inhabitants who in their moments of "drunkenness" climbed to pass the time.

The inhabitant said that those who climb are usually calm and do not bother anyone, although he accepted that it is a highly dangerous activity.