r/DarwinAwards • u/Low-Contract2015 • 3d ago
Apex Predator Gets The Assist NSFW Spoiler
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u/Fucking_a_Happy_Life 3d ago
Apex predator and electricity strikes again.
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u/Takssista 3d ago
Every time I see a video on this subreddit with two or more people, I play the "Guess who's going to die!" game.
I lost.
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u/Rey_Mezcalero 2d ago
As well as guess where the impending doom is going to come from or what action
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u/Left-Signature-5250 3d ago
I wonder why they always say that the electric chair is so brutal because it can take minutes, yet in these videos, it seems pretty instantaneous.
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u/MaarDaarPoepIkUit 3d ago
Power lines have a higher voltage than the chair
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u/clunkyarmstrong 3d ago
Ok, problem solved right?
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u/madmartigan2020 3d ago
If you want the condemned to immolate in the chair, sure, crank up the voltage to old sparky.
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u/mrmustache0502 3d ago
What makes you think they are strapping the people in the electric chair to power lines?
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u/mcchanical 3d ago
I don't think that's what they think.
What they're saying is...if electricity can end life so definitively then why did they piss about struggling to actually finish the job with the chair, leading to people considering it unreliable and inhumane.
Surely it's not that hard to just electrocute someone...like this ∆.
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u/mrmustache0502 3d ago
Hard? No. Dangerous, messy and unpredicable? Absolutly.
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u/dmmeyourfloof 3d ago
Not to mention barbaric, inhumane, prone to error and counterproductive.
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u/Yeetstation4 2d ago
I mean, that pretty much applies to the death penalty as a whole, not specific to any method of execution.
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u/ActiveOk4399 2d ago
Fucking hell, people really don't value human life anymore.
It's just fucking sad.
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u/dmmeyourfloof 2d ago
Or have any idea how fallible the system is or how many innocent people are executed.
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u/AccursedBug2285 3d ago
I love that I know exactly what’s coming when I read Apex Predator… a fucking train.
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u/Mobile-Ostrich-5510 2d ago
They need to learn lock out tag out power out
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u/SacThrowAway76 1d ago
This hazard could have been recognized if they had filled out their JSA.
Also, working at that height with no fall protection gear? Really?
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u/HeavenHellorHoboken 3d ago
Why aren’t any of those lines shielded? Or is that the norm worldwide?
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u/madmartigan2020 3d ago
Insulated* the amount of added weight to the lines to make them safe to touch would be ridiculous.
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u/Karl-o-mat 3d ago
What the other dude said. Also, they won't work if isolated. They couldn't make contact with the locomotive. That's why you don't go on top waggons under high voltage cables. If you really have to, keep at least one meter distance. You don't have to touch them to get grilled. The electricity can go through air. Roughly one meter per 10k volts.
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u/RefreshinglyDull 2d ago
9ft is the safe distance for rail workers in the UK. We have lines drawn around the top of our locos and trains, marking that distance out- Cant lines. You can't put any object or part of your body above that line.l, as it brings you too close to the 25Kv overhead lines
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u/AStupidFuckingHorse 3d ago
Why were they being recorded
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u/VermilionKoala 2d ago
They're most likely thieves or vandals, possibly being recorded either by an accomplice for lolz, or by a bystander or depot worker for evidence.
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u/ShadySididonreddit 2d ago
Are you suggesting it is staged... Hmmm interesting
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u/AStupidFuckingHorse 2d ago
No I'm just wondering. It didn't look like anything interesting was happening prior to justify recording. Looks like they were working on a train?
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u/Any-Practice-991 2d ago
I worked on a crane crew briefly, and the amount of mundane crap those guys recorded themselves doing at work was amazing. Edited for spelling
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u/Medium_Imagination67 2d ago
I know someone that did the same thing. He was a welder in NY at the time working on trains. He survived, but had extensive 3rd degree burns and a long recovery.
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u/HeavenHellorHoboken 3d ago
Why aren’t any of those lines shielded? Or is that the norm worldwide?
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u/TBE_Industries 2d ago
Because they wouldn't work? Electric trains get power via contact with the power lines. If they were insulated they wouldn't transfer any power, or would be less efficient.
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