http://www.freep.com/article/201206...ectrocuted-detroit-red-wings?odyssey=obinsite
What a damn shame...
What a damn shame...
I know! I'm a handsome young man with a bright future, I think I'll...
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mrjunction
If it rides on Rails....
Ed,
Doesn't this fall under that whole "culling of the herd" banner? There is a video out taken in India or Pakistan showing some obviously "out of it" soul doing exactly this.It is anything but pretty!
Doesn't this fall under that whole "culling of the herd" banner? There is a video out taken in India or Pakistan showing some obviously "out of it" soul doing exactly this.It is anything but pretty!
mrjunction
If it rides on Rails....
You would have to be incredibly non-observant to not understand that the wire above the train is for propulsion and NOT the longest handrail in Switzerland.
Looking back it's amazing I made it this far. I would regularly jump slow moving freight trains for a ride more times I care to admit to. Of course being an all consumed rail fan I know what train was doing what when I chose my ride. I can remember being in my 20's and being 10 feet tall and bulletproof. I'm guessing this poor guy thought the same and seeing his friends doing the same crazy stunt thought he could do the same.
R.I.P.
Dave
R.I.P.
Dave
Climb on the roof of any train where there is an overhead power supply and you deserve to get zapped. A stupid idea.
And if you don't realize that you shouldn't be allowed out on your own, take an idiot test and you'll probably pass with honours.
Not you Thai1on.
And if you don't realize that you shouldn't be allowed out on your own, take an idiot test and you'll probably pass with honours.
Not you Thai1on.
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CaptEngland
Trainz Engineer
Now that just supports the stereotype of American Football players that some of us in England have.
If your as thick as pig's droppings, you can get into playing for a pro football team!
BTW, this also is the case for English football (soccer) teams. lol.
Regards.
CaptEngland
If your as thick as pig's droppings, you can get into playing for a pro football team!
BTW, this also is the case for English football (soccer) teams. lol.
Regards.
CaptEngland
Except that he played hockey...and he was from Canada...lol
A childhood friend of my dad's died while climbing on some freight cars that were parked in the New Haven yards in New York City. My dad grew up in the Bronx, NY near the New Haven tracks and he and his friends would hang down there and watch the trains. His older friend, being 12 where as my dad was 8 at the time, thought it would be fun to walk along the tops of the freight cars. Remember back in the 1940s, box cars still had roofwalks. Well the train lurched, and his buddy cooked as he instinctively grabbed the catenery above. My dad's other friend, also 8 or 10, tried to help the electricuted one and also got zapped. He lived but lost all his hair. The dead boy's body was found sometime later up in New Rochelle which is quite a distance outside of New York City.
John
John
Am I right in thinking that there's not an awful lot of catenary in the US/Canada? If so, Americans and Canadians travelling abroad may not be familiar with the notion that a wire running overhead of their strange Europen train is carrying 25kV of electricity. Alternatively, he might just have been very dumb.
Paul
Paul
Or probably very drunk. This happened to a young man in Boston a few years ago. He was quite drunk, climbed up on an Acela locomotive and touched the pantograph. He survived but badly burned. He then went and sued Amtrak for having live wires over the trains and not warning people about the danger!
http://www.universalhub.com/node/16484
John
This reminds me of when I was a young 'spotter, about 11, and I asked a railmam about the meaning of all the 'warning overhead danger' flashes on the locomotives that I saw coming in to my home station. He said it was to warn about overhead live wires. When I pointed out there were no wires (indeed, no catenary within 60 miles of my east coast home town in the mid 70s), his response was, "but there might be...." I didn't see an overhead live wire for another year, but when I did, I knew what it was!
Paul
Paul
I understand young men taking stupid risks, I took many myself, I just don't know why he decided to climb on the roof anyway. Now those boxcars with the roofwalks seemed like an invitation almost, and I sure can understand instinctively grabbing the wires if you feel like you're going to fall. Risk assessment is not a young man's game it seems!