Dude is fucked up and needs to get out of the tracks before the train comes but shit gets real when he staggers onto the third rail http://www.clipcartel.com/Guy-Gets-Electrocuted-on-Subways-Third-Rail-video.4124.html
Damn! I only watched until about 1:15. I remember my mom always warning us about the third rail when we were kids.
That's seriously FUCKED UP! Good thing no one came to his rescue because If they touched the body they would have been fried as well Hotwater
put tennis shoes on your hands, grab body, move body.. down power-line tennis shoe trick will work too, if its not bouncing all over the ground.
Orison, I hear people say that all of the time. That will not work. I have worked in the electric power production and transmission indudtry for more than 25 years. I have a lot of hours in formal study in this area. Tennis shoes are not rated for high voltage. You can buy special EH rated shoes, which are required in generation stations and for electric line crews, but regular tennis shoes do not have enough resistsnce to protect against high voltsge. You can get away with hsndling lower voltage (124/240) lines with dry leather gloves and rubber sole shoes, but it is still not safe. OSHA doesn't allow it any more. Even walking close to a power line can kill you. Step potential is the difference in voltage between steps(more or less) caused by resistance in the ground. This voltage difference will cause current to travel through your body from one foot to the other. It is not safe at all to go near a downed power line without the proper equipment. I would stay away from people lying on sn 3lectrified rail too, but I don't know what the voltages are on those.
I work in the same industry as wcw and I support this post 100%. I've known people who aren't alive today because of making mistakes. Edit to say....1/10th of an amp can cause fibrillation of the heart. That isn't very much.
if youre wearing rubber sole shoes, and put some shoes on your hands. one could easy yank dude off the 3rail. as u see hes in contact with a 2nd rail grounding @750v. drag him over the grounding rail, electricity takes shortest path..
Maybe so. I would have to know the resistance of the shoes. And electricity takes all paths to ground - just more goes through the lower resistance (which is sonetimes the shortest path but doesn't necessarily have to be) path. Two conductive wires of the same length can have different resistance due to the type of materials they are made of as well as the gauge, or thickness. More current will flow through the one with lower resistance, but it will flow through both. The same goes for other materials, including flesh. I read in reports all the time of people getting killed try to save someone else from electrocution. I wouldn't try it without knowing voltages and ratings of my insulating protective equipment.
The third rail has 600 volts DC and can fuck you up. You can safely avoid getting electrocuted if your careful but that dude was already fucked up. I bet it smelled disgusting he was smoking for a long time.
Man Survives 625-Volt Tumble Onto Third Rail A man miraculously survived a roll in the hay with the third rail Monday night, despite being zapped with 625-volts of electricity. Witnesses say Andy Morris, 44, was pushed onto the tracks at the Broadway Junction station in East New York after a drawn out drunken argument. "He first started twitching and then you started seeing smoke coming from his head. You could smell the flesh burning," witness Marlon Probherbs told the Daily News. Morris, a currently unemployed construction worker, doesn't remember the events of the evening: "When they electrocuted me, they erased my memory." But witnesses say that he got into a verbal argument with two younger passengers while on a Queens-bound A train; the argument spilled onto the subway platform 10 stops later. Witnesses told cops that Morris was drunk and belligerent, and took a couple swings at the other men. Probherbs says Morris was as much an instigator as he was victim, but a third party watching the melee at the platform is the person who pushed him onto the tracks. Witnesses told police they were certain he was killed. Despite surviving his brush with the third rail, Morris, who lives at Samaritan Village, fears he won't be able to work again: "My fingers are fried." Hotwater
It seems it's always someone who was fucked up already. I mean, what are these people doin by the third rail? Third rail is on the other side of the tracks. And you don't wanna be over there, cuz the safest place to stand might be in between 2 third rails or something. Maybe you could lie down flat and the train would just roll over you.
3rd rail should have covers, that dont engage til train reaches very close to station.. There are other options, however this will raise cost to riders. but I dont think these companies gives two shits about random drunk people going the green mile way.. probably gives the Ceos more entertainment that it gives us. If youre an electrician and are afraid of juice. why u in that field? your training should easy be able to tell you whats going on and assess the situation quickly. Im not much a theory electrician. Im more the plug and play type. but I can usually tell from past experiences what the voltage is and danger is. Idiots life compared to my own. Ive nothing to lose trying to save someones life. it might just save mine..
People can get lucky and survive a lightening strike, but I'm not going to advise someone to not worry about holding on to a flagpole during an electric storm. I'm not trying to argue, yes people can survive 600 volts in certain circumstances. Relying on tennis shoes for protection is just not a good idea, as a matter of fact it's a very bad idea. I'm not an electrician, my formal electrical/technical education is well past that for an electrician. That is noble of you to have a desire to try to save someone from a 600 volt rail. If I had the proper equipment I would too. I would not rely on tennis shoe. It takes little current through the heart to cause fibrillation and death. As far as this goes, a lot of people believe this. At voltages of 120/240, it is possible, but I don't advise it. If it is a transmission line (not a distribution line), which is generally 69kv and above, you are dead just walking close to it - if by chance there is a relaying issue or breaker failure and it is still energized(look up step potential). No offense meant, but i advise people should stay clear of energized lines period unless you know what you are doing. The company that I work for, in addition to generating and delivering electric power, spends thousands of dollars a year going around to schools and to other groups trying to educate people on the dangers of electricity. I agree with their strategy and I try to pass on my knowledge as well.
Just to add to what wcw has said....people who work on lines are not necessarily afraid of electricity. It's more a matter of respect because we are well aware of what can happen.
