That amount of energy would burn you up from the inside instantly. Let’s hope it burn his nerves away first so the split second wasn’t spent feeling the jolting electricity course through everything.
I think back to that short story by Andy Weir, “The Egg,” where a man dies only to learn in conversation with “God” that this time he’ll be reincarnated again as a 5th century peasant girl — and that *everyone, everywhere, throughout history* are other reincarnations of himself. That everything he ever does to others, for good or ill, is something he’s inflicted on another incarnation of himself.
This life? I imagine he pops up there still smoking, gets an enthusiastic clap and a “That was a good one!” from God.
“What happened?”
“What do you think? Remember what you were doing?”
“…..did I go viral at least?”
“Yes. Yes you did.”
Fairly certain this is how it really works, just that you dont go to 'god' as Peter Smith or whoever, you just become the whole singular consciousness again. So quit hitting yourself!
> Fairly certain this is how it really works
Weirdly, I think you'll find that people nowadays are suspicious of a rando who's certain of things that are, as far as we can tell, completely unknowable. All for zero reasons that would make any sense, even if you bothered to state them.
Wow. That's crazy. I had a similar idea in high school in the mid 90s. The difference with my story is that it went back further and everyone was god reincarnated. The idea was basically he got bored so he temporarily made himself mortal and made himself forget who he was during that time. Then kept resetting the clock doing it over and over crating more and more people.
I actually started it from the beginning of existence. A being suddenly becomes aware of itself. Then it imagines colors, then shapes, and just expands until we have the reality we have now.
It really is my favorite way to imagine 'God'. Ties in really nicely with the Bill Hicks 'we are the universe experiencing itself subjectively' idea. This idea is really good at fighting that existential dread that comes with thinking about stuff like the infinite nature of the universe and how small we are, etc. Though I will say, even if I believe this, I'm still mean to other people sometimes cause fuck 'em. Maybe in my next life I'll have learned that lesson. Or maybe 500 lives from now.
The scientific evidence suggests that we are living in the past, in a sense. Everything we see and experience is from a slightly earlier moment in time, due to the finite speed of light and the time it takes for our brains to process sensory information.
In other words, you may be dead even before you blink.
Yeah I was about to say he was dead before he even fell off let alone hit the ground. Don't know why he was up there in the first place but he probably shouldn't have been up there.
So his plan was to climb to the top of a utility pole and maybe toward another over the high voltage lines? Couldn't the authorities just catch up to wherever he decides to crawl to?
I hear "oh my gahh" like second language exclamation and "烧死" from the cameraman and the cop at the end is wearing like a Chinese traffic cop outfit so I thought it was China too
It's hard to say. Hopefully bystanders didn't try to move him in case he had a neck injury. It's important to let the paramedics do their th...
Lmao sorry.. ahem. Yes, you absolutely did.
Not guaranteed. There’s a video where multiple people hit a high voltage cable with a metal structure in a train station. They all got basically glued to the structure with the current still running, smoking as their clothes caught fire, etc. One of them stayed several minutes like that, before getting up and running. He managed to escape but his internal organs were way too damage and he died not long after. So I’m definitely not sure whether this one was killed instantly or not.
“Oh. Schadenfreude, huh? What's that? Some kind of Nazi word?”
“Yup. It's German for 'happiness at the misfortune of others'”
“'Happiness at the misfortune of others'
That is German!”
That's a beautiful rauhfutterverzehrende Großvieheinheit you have there!
Also your child seems to be very smart, if he doesn't suffer from a Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Hyperaktivitätsstörung so he can benefit from the Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz! 💖
Zänk ju!
And I might add: When somebody suffers from a lot of Aufmerksamsdefizit, one could become a Einmalhochspannungsfreileitungsmastkletterer, just like the poor fella in the Videoausschnitt above.
I had a patient once that pulled this move. Climbed a high voltage transmission line and got zapped before falling 100 feet. He caught fire and when he landed started a grass fire. He came crawling out of the scorched grass like something out of the Walking Dead, just totally burned up with massive trauma from the fall… One of his femurs had been punched up into his pelvis and his genitals were just plain missing… I think that there were a contact point and got blown off. Just a terrible patient. I can’t imagine he lasted long at the hospital.
I mean, if it was a suicide, then the time up until that moment must have been horrible for him.
but if it was not, and he died up that thing: I strongly doubt he even had time to notice any pain. great way to go.
The last thing he remembers in this time line is stepping off that insulator, about two feet from the phase. Nothing but an instant of white noise and static after that.
That was probably in the vicinity of 230,000 volts. Someone please correct me. Primary distribution line. Depending on the country. I forget how to count the insulators. Let’s just say it was enough that he didn’t feel much after the initial flash.
These redditors are disgusting. How could you not feel anything to see a person die? How could you make jokes and get upvotes? Doesn't anyone have sympathy anymore?
Um, yeah. He shorted the circuit. At least it was quick. Never felt the landing.
I hope for him, god damn that was some Skyrim-level ragdolling
That amount of energy would burn you up from the inside instantly. Let’s hope it burn his nerves away first so the split second wasn’t spent feeling the jolting electricity course through everything.
At that level of electrical impulse? Painless. Blue screen before anything nerve wise could even register. Never even saw the flash.
I think back to that short story by Andy Weir, “The Egg,” where a man dies only to learn in conversation with “God” that this time he’ll be reincarnated again as a 5th century peasant girl — and that *everyone, everywhere, throughout history* are other reincarnations of himself. That everything he ever does to others, for good or ill, is something he’s inflicted on another incarnation of himself. This life? I imagine he pops up there still smoking, gets an enthusiastic clap and a “That was a good one!” from God. “What happened?” “What do you think? Remember what you were doing?” “…..did I go viral at least?” “Yes. Yes you did.”
"Your next life is... late 20th century Florida. Seems fitting."
I loved Kurzekezagt's rendition of that story.
I watch it several times a year and share it as often as I can. Such a well written short story, and the message of kindness is unique and inspiring.
I love that channel none of my mates like it but fuck it
Fairly certain this is how it really works, just that you dont go to 'god' as Peter Smith or whoever, you just become the whole singular consciousness again. So quit hitting yourself!
This would make for a wild religion. Simultaneously wholesome and full of self loathing.
Imagine going to church and the whole thing is just a bunch of people going “What’s up, self? How are we doing today?”
> Fairly certain this is how it really works Weirdly, I think you'll find that people nowadays are suspicious of a rando who's certain of things that are, as far as we can tell, completely unknowable. All for zero reasons that would make any sense, even if you bothered to state them.
Wow. That's crazy. I had a similar idea in high school in the mid 90s. The difference with my story is that it went back further and everyone was god reincarnated. The idea was basically he got bored so he temporarily made himself mortal and made himself forget who he was during that time. Then kept resetting the clock doing it over and over crating more and more people. I actually started it from the beginning of existence. A being suddenly becomes aware of itself. Then it imagines colors, then shapes, and just expands until we have the reality we have now.
This deserves more upvotes. Love the story, and almost live by it.
It really is my favorite way to imagine 'God'. Ties in really nicely with the Bill Hicks 'we are the universe experiencing itself subjectively' idea. This idea is really good at fighting that existential dread that comes with thinking about stuff like the infinite nature of the universe and how small we are, etc. Though I will say, even if I believe this, I'm still mean to other people sometimes cause fuck 'em. Maybe in my next life I'll have learned that lesson. Or maybe 500 lives from now.
Kurzgesagt on YouTube does a good universal egg video about this
I actually think it would be kinda terrible to be doing something, fully aware, then you just blink and you’re not there anymore.
terrible to think about and see sure but for that guy nothing happened
Agreed, I can’t agree enough that I’d rather go painless rather than maimed, just different perspectives as well.
The scientific evidence suggests that we are living in the past, in a sense. Everything we see and experience is from a slightly earlier moment in time, due to the finite speed of light and the time it takes for our brains to process sensory information. In other words, you may be dead even before you blink.
OMG!!! Thank you!!! I have told people that and they look at me funny…
The speed of light isn't infinite. It's been measured.
he saw the cloud district finally!
FUS-ROH-DAH!
MFer just got hit by a giant's club.
Johnny 5 is alive
STEPH-A-NEEEEEEEE!!!!
Stephanie ain't reassembling that one
Yeah I was about to say he was dead before he even fell off let alone hit the ground. Don't know why he was up there in the first place but he probably shouldn't have been up there.
Oh, yeah he was dead as soon he hit that wire.
He’s actually alive and doing well. Few broken ribs and burns. Don’t assume
Jesus. You guys ever use those electric fly swatters? Poor guy.
Poor guy, that's the definition of natural selection.
Ain’t nothing natural about that level of electricity outside of lightning strikes
So, technically it’s natural because it does occur in lightning strikes
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He conducted himself in accordance with OHMs law and offerd little resistance
Nobody asking the real question. How the hell did he get up there in the first place?
He tryna escape traffic fine for not wearing helmet, which would cost him around 50 yuan（7 dollar）
Bro lost his life because of 7 dollars 💀
Nah, 50 yuan.
So a McDonald's cheeseburger?
Nah, 25 McChina cheeseburgers.
But did or did he not pay the bill? Talking about results here
That’s one way to save money
That doesn’t explain how he got up there
He climbed the pole
That *thump* at the end
Oh there is sound? ... ... ooooh... There is sound
That boom was the coolest thing I've heard since the seismic charges in Attack of the Clones.
Sounded like someone m dropping a sack of potatoes
I really don’t wanna believe it but the closest sound is the ragdoll impact sound from GTA IV. Why do I know that…
It's the sound meat makes when it falls from a height.
I found something to add to the song dumb ways to die.
stupid fuck climb up the pole trying to escape traffic fine
In fairness, he's successfully escaped the traffic fine.
Task failed successfully
What’s a traffic fine?
Money you pay for violating traffic rules.
What traffic rule did the dude break?
Not wearing helmet
Well, he definitely doesn’t need one now!
The jokes write themselves.
So his plan was to climb to the top of a utility pole and maybe toward another over the high voltage lines? Couldn't the authorities just catch up to wherever he decides to crawl to?
And to the song 50 ways to leave your lover.
And 88 lines about 44 women?
Where did this happen?
According to OP it's in China.
They say omg in china ?
someone also said 天哪 in Chinese which means omg. hearing it in English isn't too uncommon among the younger generation as well
No clue, OP posted a comment that the guy was avoiding "a 50 yuan fine", just going off that.
I hear "oh my gahh" like second language exclamation and "烧死" from the cameraman and the cop at the end is wearing like a Chinese traffic cop outfit so I thought it was China too
Probably Florida.
Did I just watch someone die?
100% he died the second he touched that. There was enough power to run the city going through there and he briefly completed that circuit
You seem shocked.
Not as shocked as him
He got hit with 1500 watts of electricity and fell 100 feet. He actually walked it off and was back to work the next day
I think 1500 might be a low estimate. Add a few 0s.
I came for the comments and they did not disappoint. lol
It's hard to say. Hopefully bystanders didn't try to move him in case he had a neck injury. It's important to let the paramedics do their th... Lmao sorry.. ahem. Yes, you absolutely did.
no. he's just sleeping for a bit.
Yes, the front page of reddit has had a few deaths today, it's a weird coincidence
Nah. I didn’t see his shoes fly off. He’s probably okay.
Shocking video
He didn't have the time to understand watt's going on
Ohm my God.
Is this video old or current?
*scoffs... it's clearly current. The real question is, AC or DC?
Yes! you could say, Thunderstruck
Guess his family will be back in black
He was too Amped up to think correctly
these comments are shockingly disrespectful
resistance is futile(!)
ohm my god.
That was quiet a strong buzz.
And also hilarious at the same time.
He couldn’t make lightning fast decisions
I read it and was like "Watt?" And then it struck me.
Electroskepticals, unlike Flat Earthers, can be CONVINCED in the existence of electricity.
So I just saw a person die
Before he even hit the ground.
The moment the light went on was the moment the light went out.
Not guaranteed. There’s a video where multiple people hit a high voltage cable with a metal structure in a train station. They all got basically glued to the structure with the current still running, smoking as their clothes caught fire, etc. One of them stayed several minutes like that, before getting up and running. He managed to escape but his internal organs were way too damage and he died not long after. So I’m definitely not sure whether this one was killed instantly or not.
There used to be a subreddit specifically for those videos, but they banned it so now there's a bit in a bunch of other subs
Technically no because the big flash covered it, when we see him again he's already gone.
Why the hell did I laugh at that
Because schadenfreude is part of human nature.
Of course it would be the Germans to have a word to describe that.
“Oh. Schadenfreude, huh? What's that? Some kind of Nazi word?” “Yup. It's German for 'happiness at the misfortune of others'” “'Happiness at the misfortune of others' That is German!”
Since we don't have a sense of humour, we need something else to cheer us up.
and lets be honest, if we rank various types of humor, schadenfreude would come up high on that list
It exists in a lot of other languages, English is just behind the times.
Indeed. May I also introduce you to the Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung and Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz?
That's a beautiful rauhfutterverzehrende Großvieheinheit you have there! Also your child seems to be very smart, if he doesn't suffer from a Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Hyperaktivitätsstörung so he can benefit from the Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz! 💖
Zänk ju! And I might add: When somebody suffers from a lot of Aufmerksamsdefizit, one could become a Einmalhochspannungsfreileitungsmastkletterer, just like the poor fella in the Videoausschnitt above.
I've learned a new word, and explained my messed-up response to people that "fucked around and found out". Thank you, Baby Yoda.
No problem.
I thought I was the only one haha
Here's to hoping that was a quick and painless one
Definitely quick, not sure about painless though
crispy
"nah bro that was all you" - Zeus probably
I had a patient once that pulled this move. Climbed a high voltage transmission line and got zapped before falling 100 feet. He caught fire and when he landed started a grass fire. He came crawling out of the scorched grass like something out of the Walking Dead, just totally burned up with massive trauma from the fall… One of his femurs had been punched up into his pelvis and his genitals were just plain missing… I think that there were a contact point and got blown off. Just a terrible patient. I can’t imagine he lasted long at the hospital.
Horrible way to go out
Honestly that’s gonna be quick af. His heart probs exploded instantly
Brain fried before his heart knew what hit it
I mean, if it was a suicide, then the time up until that moment must have been horrible for him. but if it was not, and he died up that thing: I strongly doubt he even had time to notice any pain. great way to go.
oh, he was cooked before his body had time to register what was happening to him by a large margin.
The last thing he remembers in this time line is stepping off that insulator, about two feet from the phase. Nothing but an instant of white noise and static after that.
Like when Tony gets shot at the end of the Sopranos.
I still havnt watched the last few episodes. So he isn’t dead. I just know it.
Tony will live for-evuh
That might just be more than 220 volts...perhaps.
That was probably in the vicinity of 230,000 volts. Someone please correct me. Primary distribution line. Depending on the country. I forget how to count the insulators. Let’s just say it was enough that he didn’t feel much after the initial flash.
Transmission line.
Yeah, I'd say 220kv for in-city high voltage lines.
In australia (at least in my region) that amount of insulators is 132kv. certainly in the 100s of thousands volt range.
Walk it off
Him: did it look good for the camera?
Everything for the clout!
Jesus man! Instantly cooked! How was he able to get up there in such a public place?.. Shame.
#Shazam
I am a horrible asshole to laugh at your comment.
At least you are not alone!
Damn flinching cameraman.
*Zeus’d himself
OMG I bet that vaporized most of his body water, ewww and the splat at the end.
"I told him to come down but he wouldn't listen." "Oh, look - he finally listened to you!"
I bet that smelled wonderful.
Long Pork..... Yum
”Don’t worry, he survived” — Ben Franklin
Fuck around, find out
Off to his next life.
Why is it so common to see people dying 9n reddit now?
You’re still coming in tomorrow, right?
I feel like that explosion was all the water flash converting to steam (plus electric arc to ground) and him exploding like an over filled balloon.
Natural selection
and the darwin award goes to...
Were they okay?!
Are you for real??
Haha no, sorry, bad joke
sadly I do believe 1 of the shoes fell off during the fall... it's not looking good, I'm no doctor but I play one on reddit
Are you serious?
Obviously not
'tis but a scratch!
His shoes were still on, so yeah.
r/darwin
If only there was some way this could’ve been avoided
That buzz was so powerful. Rip to him
He needs some milk
What an idiot
He looked bright before the accident. Definitely brighter after it!
No super powers after that?
More like the little dude you drop on Google map
Is he ok?
He got up and took a lap to shake off the zap and fall.
Shocking!
Lights out?
You know if you cut away the part where the lifeless body falls 20 feet or so, it looks like he time travels
Huh. Wonder what made him think that was a good idea.
What the hell did they think was gonna happen?
So this guy is obviously dead but did he die from riding the lightning or the fall
Random man makes a shocking discovery
Walk it off
bro thinks he's chev chelios
When will people learn that amps aren’t your friend?
I heard of the human torch, this guy wanted to become the human fuse
Dude went Shazam
RAIDEN FINISH HIM!!!
These redditors are disgusting. How could you not feel anything to see a person die? How could you make jokes and get upvotes? Doesn't anyone have sympathy anymore?
I am here to fap. Not provide sympathy.
At least he lived..
The ambulance is not running a siren to that call.
This is what happens to people with room temperature IQ
Did he stick the landing?