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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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KEYWORDS: napl; spain; train
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To: Lurker
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posted on
03/23/2014 12:15:01 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Liberalism: Kills countries dead.)
To: Flag_This
¿How do you say “Hey, y’all! Watch this!” en Español?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=
El holdo my el beero?
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posted on
03/23/2014 12:25:15 PM PDT
by
loungitude
(The truth hurts.)
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.)
To: Chode
The real question is how much current he was carrying?
To: DeaconBenjamin
Shouldn’t this be in Current Events?
45
posted on
03/23/2014 12:45:42 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
46
posted on
03/23/2014 12:47:08 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(Richard Warman censors free speech.)
To: Gefn
47
posted on
03/23/2014 12:47:25 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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.
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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?)
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.)
To: Western Phil
LOLOL!!!
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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)
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.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
03/23/2014 1:36:08 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(Richard Warman censors free speech.)
To: DeaconBenjamin
Is there electricity in heaven?
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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!)
To: DeaconBenjamin; martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson
“A brain in Spain stopped painfully on a train...”
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posted on
03/23/2014 1:53:02 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Se nombro "Wayne" ?)
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’
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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".)
To: Revolting cat!
Thread is worthless without the selfie pic
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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.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Selfies....don't get photobombed.
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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)
To: DeaconBenjamin
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!)
To: ClearCase_guy
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