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Spanish man dies while taking selfie on top of train
The Local (Spain) ^ | 18 Mar 2014 10:06 GMT+01:00

Posted on 03/23/2014 10:30:08 AM PDT by 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.


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To: Lurker

muchas gracias!


41 posted on 03/23/2014 12:15:01 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberalism: Kills countries dead.)
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To: Flag_This

¿How do you say “Hey, y’all! Watch this!” en Español?

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El holdo my el beero?


42 posted on 03/23/2014 12:25:15 PM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: Bryanw92

Interestingly, three phase railway electrification did exist.


43 posted on 03/23/2014 12:28:32 PM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: Chode

The real question is how much current he was carrying?


44 posted on 03/23/2014 12:44:27 PM PDT by Western Phil
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Shouldn’t this be in Current Events?


45 posted on 03/23/2014 12:45:42 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

My work here is done.


46 posted on 03/23/2014 12:47:08 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Gefn

*shrug* No TV.


47 posted on 03/23/2014 12:47:25 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin
3,5000-volt. Hard to know what to make of that.

The maximum non-permanent voltage on overhead train wires is 3.6 kV. The reporter probably meant 35,000 volts.

48 posted on 03/23/2014 12:54:39 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Slings and Arrows

ZOT!

This human has been banned or suspended.


49 posted on 03/23/2014 1:18:25 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?)...R.I.P.)
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To: Western Phil
LOLOL!!!
50 posted on 03/23/2014 1:25:28 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: RichInOC

His page in the Book of Life has turned purple.


51 posted on 03/23/2014 1:35:44 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: dfwgator

*rimshot*


52 posted on 03/23/2014 1:36:08 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Is there electricity in heaven?


53 posted on 03/23/2014 1:36:35 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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To: DeaconBenjamin; martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson

“A brain in Spain stopped painfully on a train...”


54 posted on 03/23/2014 1:53:02 PM PDT by mikrofon (Se nombro "Wayne" ?)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

This is a creative way to ‘take’(?) a selfie.

There have been many selfies taken in the last few months and some stand out more than others.

Getting ‘bored’ with say a pol openly ‘flirting’ with another pol and taking selfies.

To bad they weren’t being as creative as our ‘Spanish Amigo’ or tried something a little more on the outlandish style.

Then possibly, just possibly, another village would be missing an idiot.....

Ah to dream the ‘Impossible Dream’


55 posted on 03/23/2014 2:22:40 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 --"I would agree with you BUT that would make both of us wrong".)
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To: Revolting cat!

Thread is worthless without the selfie pic


56 posted on 03/23/2014 3:46:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Selfies....don't get photobombed.


57 posted on 03/23/2014 5:33:58 PM PDT by Daffynition ("If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." ~ Henry Ford)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Dumb and sad. RIP.


58 posted on 03/23/2014 6:46:13 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

A Darwin Award contender for sure.


59 posted on 03/24/2014 12:07:12 AM PDT by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

60 posted on 03/24/2014 6:41:47 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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