real bright yobbo, this one..

interesting user remarks on the story (at the bottom of the page) as well:

>>"He is completely safe if he's only touching the wires. Also, voltage is not a measurement of current.

- Bob, UK"<<

safe until he tries to get down, I guess..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...in_article_id=402250&in_page_id=1770

How do you say brain dead!

Wow, lucky $^(*&%@...

Hope nobody tries to copy that stunt!!!

[This message has been edited by electure (edited 08-26-2006).]

You mean he actually has a brain?

We may have a finalist for this year's Darwin Award.

Probably a stunt done on a dare. I would have said to the person making the dare: "What, you got ___ for brains, trying to get me killed you ______!". I've defused a few "peer pressure" dares back when I was a kid with responses like the above.

I hope the above isn't too explicit for this forum. If it is, my apologies in advance.

(Edit)Wa2ise, FWIW, I agree with you, but I go along with Bob's post, and that is the reason for the edit, I hope you understand.

Roger



[This message has been edited by Roger (edited 08-26-2006).]

I got moderated for saying pee.

It's always been a G rated site, it will remain that way.

Speak here as you would in front of young kids.

There is no reason not to keep it clean.

Surfinsparky, I didn't do it, and I'll even let it remain here for the time being.

Roger

Birds do this all the time. I guess you could call this moron a bird brain .

Mike (mamills)

Is that the overhead feed line for the train's pantograph?

If so, that would have been one for a Road Runner vs. Coyote cartoon.

Guy hanging from wire....train comes....*HONK HONNNNNNNK*!!!!!

-shower of multicoloured stars....

I gotta harp I can sell real cheap to this dude.

How did he get on the cable, if it was at 5000v, without getting zapped or arced? And how did he get off it without his femurs being driven through the top of his head? - those catenaries aren't strung up 8 feet off the ground.

Weeeeell now, he either -

a] Jumped off the platform, [ EH? what's a catenery doing below a platform?], and caught the cable in mid air, jus' like in the circus, then did a triple-somersault and landed on his solid-bone head. "Hahahaha! Didn't hurt!"

b] Hitched a lift from a crow, then landed on a 'bouncy castle' on the back of a truck that just happened to be crossing the tracks in the wrong place.

c] Has mini NASA jet-pack trainers on.

d] It's all a load of bullshine, and that's his mom's washing line.

I smell d].

Alan

Yep. 25kV AC is the standard overhead supply on the long-distance electrified main lines here.


It's O.K. -- The circuit is protected by an Acme GFCI.......


My guess would be he jumped from an overhead bridge, and caught the cable on the way down. I think we need to take the 5000V figure as a "pseudo technical" piece of data given to the newspaper reporter too.

As I read the story, the line in question had been shut off due to some other incident, but presumably not grounded out as it probably would be for maintenance. So there could have been some voltage on the line due to induction from a still energized neighboring track, but obviously that actual level would depend upon many factors.

In Austrai any railway technician shutting off and NOT grounding out a railway power line would be slapped over his head REAL hard! I had a railway safety training a month ago and they were EXTREMELY tight on always locking and grounding out, if working on outside tracks even groundin out on both sides of the work area.

Well, no you didn't. You had a story that you told in a fashion suitable for a bar room. This is not a bar room.
The post I removed did not contain the word "pee" in it anywhere.

Like Bob said , there's no reason NOT to keep it clean.

It's interesting that not all details are visible in the photo, including the support structures of the OH line.

UK is 25 kV ac thats correct,

Typical media jargon. The 5000 Volts (not current) maybe remaining could be from induction through nearby OH lines from the other tracks or capacitor banks which havent fully discharger through their discharge resistors.

Any maintenance work weather it is POCO or Railways, the lines should be isolated, tagged, privately locked off and earthed at both sides of the working area and still with full PPE, to be used to do any work.
Barehanded work is not accepted under above conditions.

Perhaps the railways may have live line crews who are specially trained to deal with live OH work.

That guy is a clown and a no brainer and lucky if he is still alive.
Somehow he either managed to jump and hang onto that cable while exposing himself to great risk of electrocution.

I'd say caught it like a trapeez - any old Boy Scouts remember the Confidence Course? (Climb the 40' pole, and jump from the top to the trapeez 5' away - tethered to a belay of course)

His buddy in the backround seems to be either the one who put him up to it, or the easily attracted and impressionable type.

I'm only going on French media reports:

When hapless young man got electrocuted by an arc a couple of years ago, whilst trespassing on a carriage roof in the Marseilles marshalling yards. The Gendarmerie were unable, [ and unwilling, having recently lost an officer in a similar incident ], to go to his aid immediately. Sadly, he died on the roof with the helpless officers unable to get to him. The 25000v oh line was still charged, though off, and they had to wait for 4 hours for a Grounding crew with a special kit to arrive, working away up line.
How difficult/hazardous is it to discharge an overhead to ground potential?

Alan

That's beyond my scope. i was taught you can simply shut off a railway power line (if necessary from both sides) and hang a grounding stick, connecting the line to the tracks.
How can that stuff remain charged? Capacitance?