Third Rail Electrocution

[Bletch]

Originally Posted by yourazlmt

The guy at the end:
"Well, he won't try that again."

Actually, what he said was “..at least he knows the third rail works” in a very sympathetic tone.

[marcos_69]

Originally Posted by gimlet

Give it to me! I will save him! I have complete faith in the safety of public non-conductive hooks!

That's the spirit!

[marcos_69]

Originally Posted by bodyfarmer

I wonder if he put a light bulb in his mouth it would light?

...or screwed into the other end.

[Major_Tom]

Originally Posted by wxeye

I thought the 3rd rail voltage is so high that you instantly die?

It's 750 volts. Over here in the UK anyway.

I think the overhead lines are around 25,000 V. That's the insta.

[Bletch]

Originally Posted by Major_Tom

It's 750 volts. Over here in the UK anyway.

I think the overhead lines are around 25,000 V. That's the insta.

NYC subway has 600–650v on the third rail

[akham]

Originally Posted by photo2uj

Sad no fuck ken idiot would help.

Why don't you rush in there and drag him off the rail?

The rest of us will be right behind you.

[akham]

Originally Posted by gimlet

My vote for one of the more disturbing and gruesome deaths on DR.

I'm going to think of this next time I go to Subway and they ask me "toasted or fresh"?

[akham]

Originally Posted by kelvin92

This kind of looks like suicide. He's not really touching it at first than says I'm sorry God before making full contact with the third rail. Apologizing for killing himself?

I think you see what you want to see.

[akham]

Originally Posted by spycosis

It's a shame you weren't there to pull him off the rail.

Lets be fair - I'm sure he would try to pull him off if he had the opportunity.

[tiduspr]

Originally Posted by kelvin92

This kind of looks like suicide. He's not really touching it at first than says I'm sorry God before making full contact with the third rail. Apologizing for killing himself?

“I’m sorry God” sounds to me like one of two things:

Either he is crying out to God in a panic, saying he’s sorry for whatever he’s done in life to deserve this, begging for mercy and deliverance…

Or he’s completely aware that this is it, and he’s begging for forgiveness before he meets his maker, that he may be saved.

Not that I believe in this stuff; but a lot of people do. Honestly, we have no idea if the brain is even properly functioning there, so who knows? It’s definitely heartbreaking, to hear it.

Kind of like when people are dying and calling for their mom.

Goddamn. It doesn’t matter whether or not there are a lot of people surrounding you, at that point, it’s just you and the experience of death. Unique to you and isolated. We can only hope it won’t be overly painful or brutal. But some will inevitably be.