Spanish man dies while taking selfie on top of train

The Local (Spain) ^ | 18 Mar 2014 10:06 GMT+01:00

[DeaconBenjamin]

A 21-year-old from southern Spain died on Saturday after being electrocuted when he climbed on to a train to take a photo of himself with friends.

The young man from the Andalusian town of Andújar suffered the fatal blow when he touched a high-voltage wire on a train he and his friends had assumed was not electrified.

They'd clambered on top of the parked wagon at Andújar train station to take a picture of themselves when they suffered the severe electric shock.

Spanish online daily Ideal reported that a 3,5000-volt discharge killed the young man as he went to take the photo.

Local paramedics and police rushed to the scene but found the 21-year-old was already dead.

One of his friends survived the shock but remains in a serious condition at the local Alto Guadalquivir Hospital.

Andújar's mayor has declared three days of mourning for the town of 40,000 people in the middle of olive growing country.

[DeaconBenjamin]

Winning the Darwin Award making a cutting edge cultural statement.

3,5000-volt. Hard to know what to make of that.

[TexasGator]

I thought in Europe they used the ‘,’ where we used the ‘.’.

That would make it 3.5000 volts?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Graphic! Man dies of Electric Shock 15000 Volts on a train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vt9OLL2bkQ

[Gefn]

I really should start a Darwin ping.

Great story!

[fso301]

Where’s the picture?

[ClearCase_guy]

[dfwgator]

The young man from the Andalusian town of Andújar suffered the fatal blow when he touched a high-voltage wire on a train he and his friends had assumed was not electrified.

And we all know what happens when you "AssUMe".

[Gamecock]

Did it look something like this?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Wow!

[Night Hides Not]

Poor lad personified the result of the word “assume”.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.

[dfwgator]

[dfwgator]

“I’m the King of the *BZZZZZZZZZ*

[gov_bean_ counter]

Jeez. Man gets lit up and nobody around him seems to notice or care...

[Pearls Before Swine]

Not in Spain, but Jeezus, that’s a lot more than 3.5 volts!

[Slings and Arrows]

There's a song about that.

[dfwgator]

Great...Now that song is going to be stuck in my head all day.

[Gefn]

Have you seen the TV show?

http://www.spike.com/shows/1000-ways-to-die

[rktman]

Uh, I don’t think you’re allowed to say “jiga....” anymore. :>)

[Bryanw92]

>>3,5000-volt. Hard to know what to make of that.

Reporters are reporters because they don’t know much about anything.

Could be 3-phase, 5000 volt with -phase being replaced with the symbol for phase (the Greek phi). Mr. Journalism Degree saw that and decided that it was a typo and removed it.