I thought you had to be touching 2 wires at once ? or was there an arc ?
flyingfoxs are too small to reach the ground & still be touching a line. the dude on the train is grounded via the train & as soon as he moves his hand close enough to the power line it arcs & completes the circuit.
The noise the 2 pops made sounded like hitting 1 of those long cylindrical postage tubes on a bench or something. Poor buggers head caught on fire too. That aside wtf do you expect to happen going near power lines, much less power lines for a god damn train
Train powerlines don't work like regular powerlines anyway... the '2nd wire' is the train tracks themselves. Depends what country though, I guess. In england or america (?) there isn't even a powerline at all, the electricity goes through the track (holy shit!).
haha I sort of got that impression from the way no-one really seemed to care when it happened in the vid. If that happened at a train station in Australia there would be pandemonium.
haha I sort of got that impression from the way no-one really seemed to care when it happened in the vid. If that happened at a train station in Australia there would be pandemonium.
Yeah, all those people that were standing on the platform vanished into thin air, they didn't run away scared. Similarly, those people in the train also didn't run out scared, they were just casually disembarking.
does it seem from the video that they were trying to get him to come down? :S that's the impression i got. if so, what a way to go out like a bang :S
Yes, I got the impression that is why he walked away like he did.
man seeing these replies really has me worried for the future generation... the internet really has desensitized us...
Anyway.
Surprising people were running away and didnt bother to help. Even if the guy was dumb / mentally retarded, i'd be right up there trying to pull him down and put the fire out. There might be a slight chance to save him. People have survived worse.
man seeing these replies really has me worried for the future generation... the internet really has desensitized us...
Quick Vash someone just got ran over in the middle of a busy highway playing in traffic! Show the internet you care by running out into the middle of the street and dragging his corpse back to safety.
Its funny because who the fuck thinks getting ontop of a train is a great idea!
It doesn't matter of the circumstances. If someone is injured / in danger, you help them. So they can live another day and learn from a mistake...
Apathy at a death really is depressing.
Its part of the problem of over population, life is less precious, especially in india. but that's a whole subject on its own.
It doesn't matter of the circumstances. If someone is injured / in danger, you help them. So they can live another day and learn from a mistake...
Apathy at a death really is depressing.
Its part of the problem of over population, life is less precious, especially in india. but that's a whole subject on its own.
It doesn't matter of the circumstances. If someone is injured / in danger, you help them.
Umm fuck off you do. If someone deliberately puts themselves in harms way there would be no fucking way I'd put myself in danger to save them. Hell even if they accidentally put themselves in danger and I had to take a massive risk to save them I probably wouldn't. It's called self preservation.
Umm fuck off you do. If someone deliberately puts themselves in harms way there would be no fucking way I'd put myself in danger to save them. Hell even if they accidentally put themselves in danger and I had to take a massive risk to save them I probably wouldn't. It's called self preservation.
Where is the risk? Like i said above... get on someones shoulders and drag him down. dont get on top of the train yourself.
too be fair, there are a million examples of dumb ass white guys, one just has to browse youtube for that. i guess what makes this video so talked about is the fact he got fried, not the fact that he is Indian. personally I think we need to cull all stupid in the world, and this guy either intentionally or unintentionally furthered that goal.
I think it's disgraceful he was up there interfering with the electricity supply. And what about all the poor people trying to get to their jobs in London.
When touches the line, and you touch him, and you're on someone's shoulders..
Your point is fairly weak actually.. and all these puns just aren't funny because their so predictable, not to mention in bad taste.
What i meant was, get him down AFTER he has dropped unconscious / dead... i don't think he is capable of touching those power lines again after that.
What about that nub that laid on the tracks @ Northgate.
Freight train ran over him at walking speed :S
Came out on my night shift at Post, bunch of police officers with flashlights... take a look, arm here, leg there and then I see the torso just randomly sitting about 5m away.
When i realised his head was on fire FROM THE INSIDE I stopped being shocked that noone helped.
As it was, there already seemed to be a huge commotion to try and convince the guy to come down before he did something stupid. At which point he killed himself and everyone just got the fuck out.
I think you should watch that video more closely, but i generally stop helping people when their brain is the source of a fire. If i was to save him, he'd be too screwed to be useful in society anyway and quality of life would be pretty horrible.
well, i heard that when my gf was in Vietnam she came onto a accident where a car hit a motorbike, the guy in the bike was in pieces and slowly dying and everyone just watched as he died and then everyone walked away back to whatever they were doing. So i guess in 3rd world countries fucked up shit is just normal everyday living.
yeh india is totally like that. when i was in calcutta (or culcatta or whatever they wanna call it these days!) i saw a bus with commuters hanging out of all the windows roll in traffic & crush about 20 people. i was about 4 vehicles away in a cab. the carnage was all over the road but all the cab drivers seemed to care about was the delay in traffic :/ it's a fairly well documented fact that as population increases the value of life decreases.
Well when I was in india, it seemed like ANYTHING was big news and everyone had to have a look. So from my experiance, I was expecting every man and his dog to suddenly converge on the area and have a stickybeak.
We got in a traffic accident up in the mountains and out of nowhere, a huge crowed appeared around the cars and much entertainment was had by the locals. People not giving a shit about something going on they can have a look at totally doesnt agree with my experiances in india :O
it's a fairly well documented fact that as population increases the value of life decreases.
this is true, though wasn't the case back in the ancient times, world pop was below 500 million and death was a regular every day occurrence & was shrugged at.
But over population is certainly a large problem we have at the moment.
when i spent 6 weeks backpacking round india i surprisingly didnt see a single death or car accident (apart from a dog getting its leg fucked up by an autorickshaw)
What is this, the 1930's? Why is it that this level of racism isn't a bannable offence? Jesus fucking christ.
What are you talking about? I said that out loud at work when i saw that video. It is just a pun at the over population of India and its bordering countries.
If you want racism, get a couple of young middle class males together and ask them what they think of aboriginals. (and its all true!!)
------(Typical day for me when i worked in a drive thru bottleshop for two years.)------
Me at work : Hi can i help you (to an aboriginal customer)
smelly aboriginal man : you can go fuck yourself you white cunt and give me whatever i want or i will bash you.
Sometimes racism is a by-product of life experience.
I think the other people at the station are pretty lucky to be alive. If he had grabbed that wire when people were hanging off the side like they were earlier then they probably would have got a decent belt from it too.
And Vash, no one has survived worse, many people have died from a lot less though.
Me at work : Hi can i help you (to an aboriginal customer)
smelly aboriginal man : you can go fuck yourself you white cunt and give me whatever i want or i will bash you.
Sometimes racism is a by-product of life experience.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to not see that it goes both ways?
i was working in cairns once when a abo came up to the fence i was working behind and started telling me to fuck off captain cook white cunt.. while at the same time trying to piss on me through the fence.. although this was a 50 y/o women so she had to lift her dress up over her back so she could aim better
i think she was pissed off at me because her drunk boyfriend/dad/random old man was blind drunk at 8am in the morning and was chasing her around throwing rocks and bricks at her.. one of the bricks hit her in the head with a god awful thump so she prol wasnt thinking clearly when she mistook me for a mens urinal..
they lived in a 5m long left over section of drainage pipe..on contaminated land (gas storage fire) few months later enough people complained and the council came along and took away their 'home'
it was a sad day to see these people ousted from 'there' land.. i had a few beers after work that day in remembrance of our darkie brethren...
once the the new mayor who decided enough was enough.. all the darkies living in the parks in the centre of town were asked where they were indigenous to.. They said .. i'm from fuckin hopevale you fuckin captain cook white cunt.. so mr mayor organised a bus and shipped all back there...repatriation is a wonderful thing
Pretty sure "we" didn't, a bunch of white dudes a long time ago did. If anyone tried to give me shit for that i'd just tell them to get the fuck over it, not like the event happened to them.
No I have never taken anything from an aboriginal. I heard some guys did a few hundred years ago though?
If you have ever been spat on, had piss thrown at you, abused and had your life threatened by them, maybe you would feel a little different.
Do you honestly believe we just took their land, killed as many of them as we could and then took their children and from then on we were perfectly civil to them? Do you honestly believe that in the recent past no white person has seen an aboriginal with something they wanted and just stole it because they knew they could get away with it?
If you have ever been spat on, had piss thrown at you, abused and had your life threatened by them, maybe you would feel a little different.
I can assure you I wouldn't because I have had the majority of those things happen to me, but then I guess you'd know more about what I've experienced than I would, wouldn't you?
So, 40 Aboriginals rock up to the Pearly Gates. St Peter puts up his hands and says, "Sorry boys, only got room for 12 of ya. You'll have to go and decide who goes and who stays"
A little time passes and St Peter walks up to God and says "God, they're gone!"
God says "Gone? What, all forty of them?"
St Peter says, "Nah, the fuckin' gates!"
Yeah im sure you had a heap of aboriginals on your liberal golf playing weekend infi. HAH.
Are you going to suggest aborigines can't be in the Liberal party? Neville Bonner was the first (and I think to date only) indigenous Commonwealth Senator/Member in Australia as a member of the Liberal party.
Are you going to suggest aborigines can't be in the Liberal party? Neville Bonner was the first (and I think to date only) indigenous Commonwealth Senator/Member in Australia as a member of the Liberal party.
No I wasnt suggesting that at all, but I am suggesting you havent heard of this thing called a joke.
Like spook said, im sure they let rich aboriginals in.
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