[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?

[Night Hides Not]

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

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.

[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.

[bigbob]

I think a new Award needs to be offered to those who join the choir eternal while engaging in acts of self-photography...

The Polaroid Award ?

[RansomOttawa]

Who says you can’t fix stupid? Now the world is a little less stupid.

[Revolting cat!]

Hold MAH cerveza and watch me do this, niños!

[Kirkwood]

Should have set the autoflash to off.

[Bullish]

Never underestimate the ignorance of ‘yutes’ these days.

[Koracan]

Spanish man dies while taking selfie on top of train


Where’s the picture?


Last known Selfie.

[Fresh Wind]

Those are metric volts.

[dfwgator]

[dfwgator]

Shouldn’t this be in Current Events?

[COBOL2Java]

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.