Father, Son, Carpenter and Another Man Got Electrocuted After Moving a Scaffold

[kellyhound]

Ghana, Four people, which included a father and son, a carpenter and another person, were said to be fixing mosquito nets in the windows of a two-storey building when calamity struck.

According to eyewitnesses, the four people were pushing a metal scaffold to another window when it accidentally touched electricity power lines.

Within seconds, all the four people pushing the metal scaffold got electrocuted as people at the scene ran helter-skelter in order to save their lives.

The charred remains of the four have since been deposited at the Hospital morgue for autopsy.

Around 5:30 pm on Sunday, a caretaker of the two-storey building, engaged the services of a carpenter to fix mosquito nets in the windows of the house.

The carpenter had successfully finished fixing one of the nets so he called for help to push the heavy scaffold to another window.

The assemblyman said the caretaker as well as a father and his son, offered to help the carpenter to push the scaffold but it accidentally touched the electricity power lines, leading to massive explosion and electrocution.

People at the scene saw the four being burnt but they could not do anything since they were afraid of being electrocuted as well.

According to him, officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) were called to disconnect all power lines before the bodies could be retrieved.

With the exception of the carpenter, who was identified by his ID card in his saloon car as J. A. A., the names of the other three people were not immediately known.

[soja]

they need to install rubber grips or something on those things

[AriaDonna]

for a short time he had the ability to shoot fire from his knuckles

[gimlet]

Originally Posted by AriaDonna

for a short time he had the ability to shoot fire from his knuckles

"Oh, oh, try, try, try to understand,
He's a magic man, oh, he's got the magic hands"

A brilliant electronic engineer I worked with spent summers in Ghana in the early 1960's visiting his father who was a British doctor working to combat malaria and other tropical diseases in Ghana. Mosquito eradication was a big part of the job. Ghana was known in those days as "The White Man's Grave". If sunburn or tropical disease didn't kill you, the natives would or something else would. Interestingly, as a teenager he removed a poisonous snake from Hanna Reitsch's glider at her request, she was in Ghana teaching flying lessons. He said she was a strange person, makes sense as she test piloted a Buzz Bomb (V1).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Reitsch

[gianbsmith]

wtf he is the black harry potter

[WhiskeyOutpost]

Dude is literally Raiden.

[William May]

Originally Posted by gimlet

"Oh, oh, try, try, try to understand,
He's a magic man, oh, he's got the magic hands"

A brilliant electronic engineer I worked with spent summers in Ghana in the early 1960's visiting his father who was a British doctor working to combat malaria and other tropical diseases in Ghana. Mosquito eradication was a big part of the job. Ghana was known in those days as "The White Man's Grave". If sunburn or tropical disease didn't kill you, the natives would or something else would. Interestingly, as a teenager he removed a poisonous snake from Hanna Reitsch's glider at her request, she was in Ghana teaching flying lessons. He said she was a strange person, makes sense as she test piloted a Buzz Bomb (V1).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Reitsch

She reportedly was given a cyanide "lipstick case" by Adolf Hitler, and they reported that she used it when she decided to die in the 1970's. Hitler's secretaries (Traudl Junge, and the other one who's name I have forgotten) also had them. Traudl Junge still had hers, and kept it in her purse as a good-luck charm. She showed it during one of her interviews. (The cyanide had been removed, it was just an empty lipstick case at that point.)

[docfr8]

These scaffold electrocutions are really common there

Working with scaffolds and electricity daily, you treat all overhead cables/lines like they are uninsulated and live

[Mr_Shlaapu]

If the butcher, the baker and candlestick maker were there they'd have a full house!

[DankStank]

Gogo Gadget electrical cord