Blimey! Do you think he was okay??

muppet – he will have delayed the train (their equivalent of BTP will have to now remove his body and do all the CSI stuff) and thus pissed off all the people wanting to actually get somewhere….

sorry but I’ve got no sympathy for people like that, I’m a Londoner originally and when I lived there trains were always disrupted by “one unders etc”, plus its harsh on the drivers and engineers and railway workers what have to witness clear up stuff like this..

looks like he’s not even suicidal but showing off etc….

from what I know of Indians (being part Indian myself!) its actually the sort of thing a pissed up bloke might well do out of machismo (albeit after somethign like big domestic/family argument) – but I suppose we’d have to know the language(s) the crowd were speaking…

most people seem to jump in front of the train here – its rife in EA on the London/Norwich line due to the abundance of level crossings and easy access to the tracks – about one every few months and bound to get worse with the recession…

Gutted, Got no sympathy for muppets like this.

@Dom_sufc 343990 wrote:

I love this place, but sometimes it’s just a far off echo of SJ 😀

SJ lover

Saw this one a few weeks back – rather brutal really!

that sounds proper lush betear ithan whats on the barbque!!

Ive done the CSI part of it and it really isnt pleasent. I dont have any sympathy for him either. I hear that if someone jumps out infront of a train the first time they get a week off and counselling. The second its a month off with counselling and the third they have 6 months off because it takes a lot of time and expensive therapy to get over it. A body smells like pork when its burnt Josh so I assume he smelled the same. A freinds freind tried to play chicken with a tran and he got hit. When my freind told me I said that I didnt have any sympathy for him either. If you do dumb stuff expect to get hurt.

a human life maybe.. but a slightly limited form..

@Tank Girl 344448 wrote:

probably true :wink:, but empathy costs nothing and is lacking in this world somewhat

also true 🙂

@the1log 344449 wrote:

He may not have died, I remember A young lad named riki from my area kicked the live rail and got shocked, he had 40% burns to his body andthe guy who jumped down to save him got burned aswell. Stupid of him. [/quote]

Its only 750V DC on third rail compared to 25 000 V AC on the overhead lines in the UK. India has both 1500V DC (the old UK standard) and 25 000V AC electric trains – from the size of the flash I would say its a 25 000 V line.

at that voltage the man doesn’t need to make contact with the line, the electricity will just flash over..

I was at Ipswich station a few months ago and some students had a metal foil ballon on the platform, within seconds the National express staff had told them off and made them stand well back..

another reason why the station couldn’t have turned off the power is that the Indians don’t have a fraction of the sophisticated electronic signals we have. Depending on the layout, turning off the power could stop other trains even across a set of points – with a major risk of a collision/deraliment which endangers the lives of hundreds of people.

thats what tasers are intended for but the Indian cops can’t afford them – many don’t even have their own hand held radio set!

(also discharging one in the vicinity of high voltage electricity would endanger the person firing it…)

they don’t even seem to have guards/transport police at that station, in most countries climbing upon the roof of a train is an very irregular thing to do and would normally attract the attention of someone in authority..