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KALININGRAD, Russia — A 16-year-old boy is fighting for his life after climbing atop a railroad bridge and grabbing on to an electrified catenary wire.
A U.K. website reports that the teenager climbed on to the railroad bridge in western Russia and grabbed the catenary and pretended to be shocked.
A few seconds later, the teen touched the steel of the bridge with his other hand and completed a circuit with the ground that gave him a real shock — all while his friends were recording him on video.
Media reports that the teen is suffering from multiple bone fractures, a fractured skull and brain injuries.
Electrocution is death or serious injury caused by electric shock, electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from “electro” and “execution”, but it is also used for accidental death. The word is also used to describe non-fatal injuries due to electricity.
He was shocked. Electrocution is when you die from being shocked. He may wish he did get electrocuted. The recovery from such injury is sometimes worse.
Sounds like the brain injury preceded the electrocution.
I’m disappointed. I thought STUPID was a uniquely American thing.
The Russian Railway probably will not have to worry about being sued for negligence by this trespasser.
An historical aside: Kaliningrad in the Soviet-era Oblast, now oddly part of Russia, is the old Hanseatic city of Konigsberg, the ancient capital of Prussia. Among other things, the home of Prussian history, a respected university, birthplace of Immanuel Kant (read the Critique of Pure Reason), and a rail hub. After WWII, the Soviets gave part of East Prussia to Poland and kept half, the more important part. Once a militarily restricted zone, now one can tour the old city, and the astute observer find the multiple ROW’s built by Russian and German rr’s for both world wars.
And hate to say this, but the presence of the sliver of former German/Prussian patrimony in Russian hands is an irritant not easily salved.
Stupidity knows no borders.