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- Unreal595, on 05/09/2008, -3/+42The voltage isn't what kills someone, it's the amperage. He "somehow" lived because there weren't many amps.
- connorf, on 05/09/2008, -1/+38Electro-man is born.
- jun2san, on 05/09/2008, -3/+22Good thing pedobear wasn't around.
- DaviDaviDaviD, on 05/09/2008, -2/+15Wasn't this on here yesterday?
- D3ADBOLT, on 05/09/2008, -0/+12I = V/R
- cygnus2112, on 05/09/2008, -0/+12You like sex with electrocuted women?
Sick bastard. - sanman, on 05/09/2008, -0/+10... but then he soon died of embarrassment?
- AtomicPC, on 05/09/2008, -0/+10I'm a lineman. I have worked in many substations and never once was walking under the energized equipment and had the electricity jump out and grab me. I think something in the story isn't being told. Like "My friends dared me to grab that wire." The minimum approach distance for a 25KV line is 2' 4" or 72cm.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Dj7W6FQxBxoC&pg=P ... - Irlande, on 05/09/2008, -0/+8You mean it happened twice in two days?!
Now thats bad luck. - Brad324, on 05/09/2008, -7/+14Why couldn't this happen to a hot woman, and why not right in my front lawn?? There is no God.
- Skafia, on 05/09/2008, -1/+8I know that voltage is certainly dangerous and I think its like 100 volts can be fatal, but isn't usually the amperage that kills people?
- WallnutBoy, on 05/09/2008, -5/+12That must have been a shock!
..y'know.. because its about a boy surviving an electric shock.. which rarely happens.. so it'd be a shockoh forget it i'm just gonna go die. -_- - surKaz, on 05/09/2008, -0/+7Any train rails close to you?
- Tamant, on 05/09/2008, -0/+6She comes with third degree burns! Though skin grafts are sold seperately, some assembly may be required. =/
- aphexcoil, on 05/09/2008, -1/+7Of course there were amps because he suffered third degree burns! The only reason he is alive is because the current apparently didn't pass directly through his heart.
- Deadly4Shot, on 05/09/2008, -0/+5Yes.
- Bicx, on 05/09/2008, -0/+5This is originally from the Daily Mail. Isn't that the news company the Brits continually warn us about?
- NeoNevermore, on 05/09/2008, -1/+6He must have been concerned about overpopulation and wanted to do his part to reduce it.
- LordSkippy, on 05/09/2008, -0/+5Or at least that's the story he gave his parents when asked "Why are you naked?"
- Duositex, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4I believe a few details in this story to be false. Someone isn't telling the whole truth here.
Firstly, there's no reason why his boots would be struck by an arc of electricity. That's just nonsense. A conductor floating in mid-air (kid jumping?) is an insulator. Before you say, "what about planes" read this: http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae568 ... Slightly different scale. A conductor wrapped in an insulator (boots) is also an insulator, which means that the only way it's conceivable that this kid was hit by an arc to his boots is that the toe of his boot came in VERY close proximity to the source of the current. Otherwise there would be fires along these tracks constantly from the arcing, and last I knew, there aren't.
Secondly, the electricity didn't burn off his clothing, the steam generated when the water boiled away did. Electrical energy on it's own IS NOT heat. Heat is a different form of energy that results from electrical energy meeting resistance.
So much is missing here that this story is useless. - DangerMouse9, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4Unless you're the Human Torch and you're just doing it to ***** with people.
- CA55IDY, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4he was hit by Guile's flash kick
- AtomicPC, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4You mean how many amps CAN go though wires?
- Bradillac, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4This would have gotten more diggs had you left out the word "his"....
- mkillion, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4The voltage plays a part in determining the current in a circuit. The higher the voltage, the more current will flow. The only reason people survive taser shocks is because the power available from the supply is extremely low.
Saying "volts don't kill amps do" is a half truth. It's similar to saying "It wasn't the fall that killed him, It was the sudden stop at the end." Without one, you don't get the other. - dtele, on 05/09/2008, -3/+7love the ad pic - 'are you ready for summer ?'
- crimsonblade53, on 05/09/2008, -1/+4Well said, sir. Van de Graff Generators (the big dome thing at science museums) can easily generate this kind of voltage, with varying degrees of amperage. This is why your hair stands on end and you don't burst into flames.
- Jwoey, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3a dude totally committed suicide by jumping in front of a train in my town the other day. Just saying.
- fuhcough, on 05/09/2008, -1/+4Um... tasers routinely zap crackheads and rowdy college students with 50,000 volts. It's current that kills - not voltage. That said, I'd assume there was SOME amperage involved if it nuked his airline baggage cart driver jacket and hot pants.
And who the hell plays rugby wearing steel toe boots?! :) - redsfaithful, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3You know, I really am ready for summer. Thanks for reminding me.
/crappy Ohio weather - Duositex, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3This was my point below. I cannot see how this kid was endangered by this equipment without having put himself in a dangerous position.
- momsshizzle, on 05/09/2008, -1/+4Digg Survives Another Duplicate Story.
- mrgreenjeans, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3That's better than partially committing suicide by jumping in front of a train.
- AtomicPC, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3Where did you get this from? Like I stated above I'm a lineman. I've never seen a line with 12,000 amps. The largest aluminum wire I've handled is 927 which has a capacity of around 955 amps. Very large wire for distribution it weighs a pound for every 10 inches. The switches we've put up in distribution have capacity of around 600 amps at the largest I can remember looking up. The highest amp reading I've done in the field is just over 300 amps. This was a pretty heavily loaded line and in the city of Vicksburg MS.
Now if you put a "fuse" on a line that has 300 amps and the fuse is rated for 12,000 amps you would melt most of your wire before the fuse ever did it's job and kick the line out.
I work in distribution and not transmission. I don't know all the line voltages of transmission and none of the amps that they deal with. I've been told that the amps they have on their lines are lower than the amps we deal with. It makes sense to me that it could be that way. If you double your volts you half your amps. For instance if you have a line that we converted last week. It was a 7200 volt line and we were converting it to 14,400 volts (Phase to ground. Something that the article fails to mention. Some people say 25kv talking about phase to phase which would be 14.4kv phase to ground like people I've worked under say it. Confusing if you are just meeting a fellow lineman and he's been taught different. You don't always put in the phase to ground when you say 14.4.) and just for the example the line had 10 amps on it. A probable amp reading from a co-op's single phase line. When you double the voltage your amp reading should be 5. Now I fear I am rambling. - stevealford, on 05/09/2008, -1/+4True enough, but you can have a high amount of volts with a low amount of amps (like this case) and you can also have a relatively low voltage (say 220 running through a household device) that can be deadly with as few as 7 milliamps. While the two go hand in hand to some degree, it's the imbalance toward the ampere side that determines fatality of the current. I hope this more fully states my position.
- oldcrows40, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3with the exact same name.
- kelmaster1, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3Ya, a typical tazer is 50,000 volts. He was a resistor in a parallel circuit, he didn't get the full amperage.
- verkon, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3His toe got connected with a lightning arc, so short instantaneous connection that went from his foot down to the ground, didn't really pass any vital organs.
- amnezia22, on 05/09/2008, -1/+4Fox News reporting on a story by the Daily Mail.
The circle of Fail is complete - admdrew, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3No, that would've killed him.
- Gudlyf, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2I hear Elijah Price has been looking for him.
- STKD, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Positively shocking.
- DanBoodro, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2"Surviving" 25,000 volts makes this kid sound like a bad ass. That's all he needs for the rest of his years in high school...besides the being naked part.
- verkon, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2There is no real answer, since the current depends on what resistance there is. But let's say there was a resistance of like, 100 ohm's, so about 250 amps.
- quadvods, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Pics: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new ...
- h0ms4r, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Comment retracted. Digg me up!
- Onyxblaze, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2
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1 day 23 hr ago, made popular 1 hr 18 min ago - Zaneris, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2No, there's a reason they tell you to not take your hands off of it...
- Schmich, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2One my brother's friends got electrocuted too. The guy was playing on an inactive wagon and his headphones attracted the current (he was on top of the wagon when it happened). His skin, ,especially the face, was all burned and he also got trouble walking. So I don't think it's something you want to see on a woman either.
- neilschelly, on 05/09/2008, -2/+4It's not really one or the other. A very low voltage just won't pass through the body in any appreciable current. A high voltage can, but something like a static shock just doesn't have the current capacity to actually do any harm. In this case, such a strong voltage would have had no trouble overcoming any resistance his body offered to get to ground and it would have been able to supply plenty of current.
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