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- whyufail, on 05/08/2008, -2/+117Real question. How many amps?
- failedpimp, on 05/08/2008, -2/+85Now he has superpowers and will become Electro-Boy, or if he turns evil, Third Rail
- rainierbeer, on 05/08/2008, -0/+43Wow. I guess that scene in Jurassic Park wasn't full of *****
- DoctaLivingston, on 05/08/2008, -4/+42Thank you for being smart.
- brad3378, on 05/08/2008, -0/+37The kid in the picture needs a little more smoke coming from his ears.
- Pinkertinkle, on 05/08/2008, -7/+43Alternative headline: "Natural Selection Fails in Case of Boy Dumb Enough to Retrieve Ball from Electrified Rail Line"
- woodsja, on 05/08/2008, -5/+23Shocking!
- pudgyv, on 05/08/2008, -0/+18Well? Did he get his ball back?
- KingWi11, on 05/08/2008, -0/+15NOT Dewie!!!*
* from Malcolm in the Middle - Timpin1, on 05/08/2008, -2/+15i know this kid was a dumb ass for getting shocked in the 1st place, but you gotta feel sorry for him. poor thing is gonna be pretty badly disfigured. what happens in most cases is that the electricity needs a point of exit so it blows out the tops of the outermost extremeties. my sister used to date a guy that was electrocuted and he looked as though he had ninja turtle hands and feet. :o/
- IAmTheGuy, on 05/08/2008, -1/+14Perhaps his genes leave plenty to be desired in the intelligence department, but he makes up for that by having an uncanny immunity to electricity.
- z3r0c0O1, on 05/08/2008, -3/+13That is quite the shock!
- Flame15, on 05/08/2008, -0/+10If you were hit with 25,000 volts you wouldn't 'kinda jump back'
- loganhid, on 05/08/2008, -5/+15Real question: will he blend
- Lutremi, on 05/08/2008, -0/+10Of course not, nature is always green and only exists outside the city.
- IphtashuFitz, on 05/08/2008, -0/+9if you go check out all the submissions to darwinawards.com you'll find tons of similar stories from all around the world. The value of scrap copper is apparently skyrocketing so people are breaking into construction sites, abandoned buildings, and even power stations and ripping out whatever copper they can find. A lot of them find out the hard way that many of those wires are still energized. The folks over at darwinawards.com routinely reject these sorts of stories now because they've become too common.
- Kennerk, on 05/08/2008, -0/+8someone that wants to put on the hurtin'
- hauntedchippy, on 05/08/2008, -1/+9The resistence of the human body is usually something between 1,000 and 10,000 ohms.
Using this we can make an estimate of the amount of current using ohms law. Which comes out to be between 2.5 and 25 Amps.
6A is usually the operating current of a defibrillator so he's pretty lucky he survived.
(http://acept.asu.edu/courses/phs110/ds/appendixC.h ... - bhavinp, on 05/08/2008, -0/+8Nah, look at that slightly evil look on his face. I say this is gonna be Magneto in the future.
- mastazed, on 05/08/2008, -0/+7is that dewy from Malcolm in the middle
- BlackJackJester, on 05/08/2008, -0/+7Little static electricity shocks on door handles and the like can be tens of thousands of volts, or more. Those, however, have nearly 0 amps, so they hurt a little, if at all.
- bagelmaster, on 05/08/2008, -0/+7Exactly what I was thinking. I had an old electronics teacher who was in the military for many years and (supposedly) witnessed a few unfortunate people touch some hot lines. He always said "it's the amps that kill you, not the volts"
- houndeyex, on 05/08/2008, -0/+72.5 and 25 amps is a pretty big range.
- hpymondays, on 05/08/2008, -0/+7she probably dated him for his ninja turtle knob
- inactive, on 05/08/2008, -1/+7I'm sure he'll be GROUNDED for it when he recovers. ....Badumdum....
- jsaya, on 05/08/2008, -0/+6After surviving this, he grew a third one!
- Beowulf2112, on 05/08/2008, -2/+8Obviously not he is still alive. 0.05 Amperes is enough to stop your heart
- IphtashuFitz, on 05/08/2008, -0/+6Electricity is a strange beast. One volt is enough to kill if the current is high enough and it interferes with your heartbeat when going through your body. (Keep in mind your heartbeat is controlled by electrical impulses from your brain, which is why things like pacemakers & defibrillators work.) Many people have also survived lightning strikes measured in the tens of thousands of volts, as well as similar cases of electrocution like this particular story. It's all a matter of how you get zapped, for how long, how your body reacts, and a ton of luck.
- awa1ct, on 05/08/2008, -0/+6Just in this past week, a man was electrocuted by the overhead catenary wires on the ex PRR Enola Low Grade line. The line was abandoned many years ago, but the wires remained energized to provide power to other nearby lines.
He was trying to steal the energized copper wire. He, unlike this kid, died. - JD52, on 05/08/2008, -4/+9Bzzzzzt
- synys73r, on 05/08/2008, -0/+5I hope that he doesn't turn into that facking Magneto Kid
- Holosoth, on 05/08/2008, -0/+5Wasn't funny the first time you posted it either. Within a minute might I add.
- DJafrodijiak, on 05/08/2008, -0/+5TIM! No TIM!
- uhhNo, on 05/08/2008, -0/+5You forgot to add the resistance of the skin, which is ~100,000 ohms when dry (less when wet). However, as the skin breaks down (from burning) it's resistance is greatly reduced.
- subterfuge, on 05/08/2008, -2/+7troll troll is troll
- hauntedchippy, on 05/08/2008, -0/+5Good point, depending on how long he was in contact (I'm guessing not very) he probably recieved a much lesser ampage
- ThantiK, on 05/08/2008, -1/+6Anyone else starting to notice the "digg down trolls"?
Seems like nobody starts off with a +1 anymore, like we have 20 people waiting for the newest story to hit front page just to chain-digg down every comment that's on the story >_> - krnldmp, on 05/08/2008, -0/+525kV gets to the juicy part post haste. The dry skin just adds to the smoke.
- elfprince13, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4amperage. 25000volts at really low amperage shouldn't be a problem unless you set yourself up badly (e.g. are positioned so that the shortest path out is through your heart). the other difference is if it was AC or DC.
we play with 10,000 volt electricity in physics class all the time, and its not a problem with anything resembling mild safety precautions. - Gizza, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4Volts dont kill, amps do. High enough resistance and it doesn't matter how many volts there are.
- Ajajadude, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4Naw, I'm no conformist. I'd jump *forward*
- endlessoul, on 05/08/2008, -0/+4Oh, that's very punny.
- yodaj007, on 05/08/2008, -1/+5"Sam was retrieving a rugby ball on the bridge near his home in Wigan on Thursday evening when a charge leapt from overhead powerlines into the steel toecaps of his boots."
"Experts said last night that Sam, a labourer, was lucky to be alive. Phil Mawby, a professor of engineering at Warwick University, said: "The current going through an overhead railway cable would easily be strong enough to kill somebody."
You're going to criticize the article one the caption of a picture when the rest of the article is correctly worded and phrased? You're arguing semantics over a sentence; your view clearly goes against the content of the article.
Your comment is borderline trolling. - dabura, on 05/08/2008, -1/+5'nuff to fry all of your toasts
- Wootstapler, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3It's not the voltage that kills you, it is the current.
- BigglesPiP, on 05/08/2008, -1/+4Difficult to put a number on it, basically whatever he will draw at 25,000V.
Only one thing is definite, it wasn't enough. - krische, on 05/08/2008, -1/+4Was he really blown 25 ft away or did he just kind jump back and fall and the fall distance had him 25 feet away?
- judicar, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3I seem to remember reading that the most important factor in whether someone lives or dies from an electrocution has to do with the path that it takes through the body, if the current conducts across the chest area you're pretty much toast, pun intended.
- yuanzhoulu, on 05/08/2008, -1/+4"Sam was retrieving a rugby ball on the bridge near his home in Wigan on Thursday evening when a charge leapt from overhead powerlines into the steel toecaps of his boots."
he was on the bridge, not the rail line. this scares me. - wastelander, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3Electricity (usually alternating current) can sometimes kill, if the current traverses the heart (and you have bad luck), by causing a fatal arrhythmia "ventricular fibrillation".. essentially the exact opposite of what a "defibrillator" does (which uses DC current). This doesn't necessarily require enormous voltage or current.
The other way electricity (AC or DC) can kill you is massive burns. This requires much higher voltage/current; essentially the resistance in your body generates heat as the current passes through it. -
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