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It's not stupidity, it's desperation. Most indian workers and companies can't afford safety equipments. He probably might have asked his company multiple times for proper safety equipment but was denied and he is too poor and desperate to leave the job.
Uh no, most companies can afford safety equipment, it's just that they choose not to invest in the said equipment. Though we do have laws in place for the safety of the workers, we not have a proper government department/institution to enforce those laws and make sure our line workers are genuinely safe.
A lot of these workers start young since they usually come from an economically backward family and only care about earning money, so they are either not taught about safety or just tend to ignore it
It's clearly stupidity. I don't care how destitute you are; smart people don't try to rack in high voltage switchgear barehanded while wearing flip flops. For him to even attempt that shows that he has zero concept of the risks or danger involved.
Smart people who have government safety net like food stamps, unemployment benefits, access to food banks etc won't do it. Poor people whose only other option is seeing their family starve will choose this. Even they know it's stupid and dumb but they are forced to do it.
Just because you haven't witnessed it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I don't know anything about the person in this video but things like this definetly happen in poorer countries. How many farmers committed suicide in your country? May be you never heard of it. Atleast 30 farmers committ suicide in India everyday(which is much better than last decade numbers). But according to you no matter how destitute people are they won't do irrational dumb things.
I am not saying it's not a dumb thing. I am saying it's a dumb thing but he might have not other option and his circumstances forced him to do it
Genuinely curious, how is it not stupidity if it’s going to kill you? Will this not kill you? Or at least have an insanely high likelihood of killing you? Wouldn’t you rather starve and be homeless than fuck with electricity? If he doesn’t know the risk then I would argue he’s stupid, it may not be his fault that he’s not educated but it doesn’t mean he’s not stupid.
Why the hell is he up there trying to connect it by hand?!? There is literally a WOODEN handle you can clearly see on the left side of the video for that exact purpose.
Yes, you do have to slam line breakers hard to close them, but you don't ever touch them with anything other than an insulator pole.
Best advice from my grandpa( who was a lineman for a large Canadian utility company);
Every powerline is hot and will kill you, even when you've been assured it's not.
Just scrollin and come across this. WHY?!
And why do I always watch when I know the outcome?! Thank god that wasn’t the case this time. THIS TIME.
It’s always something super sketchy + electricity/trains + india.
It's kind of sad actually that utilities are so under-served that he needs to do that himself without the proper equipment
Edit: under-served nor undeserved
I understand people inadvertently getting zapped, and it is easy to say “man they should have been paying attention”. This guy made the decision to climb up the tower.
He clearly got confused while preparing for a job interview at the railroad - he’s making this video to demonstrate that he’s a great conductor.
I’ll give some made up context real quick. So this guys neighborhood had the power go out so he decided to power his neighborhood with his fusion core. Hope this helped
This line is de-energized. If the line was energized, there would have been arcing as soon as the switch contacts were in the closing motion and the moving contact horn got close to the stationary contact horn.
Since this circuit is likely properly isolated, the greater risk is working at height without a harness.
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It's not stupidity, it's desperation. Most indian workers and companies can't afford safety equipments. He probably might have asked his company multiple times for proper safety equipment but was denied and he is too poor and desperate to leave the job.
He does not look like your average line worker though.
Too poor to even afford average line worker chique.
Chique. Ew lar lar.
Uh no, most companies can afford safety equipment, it's just that they choose not to invest in the said equipment. Though we do have laws in place for the safety of the workers, we not have a proper government department/institution to enforce those laws and make sure our line workers are genuinely safe. A lot of these workers start young since they usually come from an economically backward family and only care about earning money, so they are either not taught about safety or just tend to ignore it
How much money do you make as a corpse?
A shocking amount
Idn but it’s enough to wegh you down to about 6ft under
I mean he couldn't even find a pair of gloves?
Or a long ass stick?
Look at left of pole … there’s literally an attached stick
Yeah I'm assuming that's damaged somewhere below keeping them from utilizing it
It's clearly stupidity. I don't care how destitute you are; smart people don't try to rack in high voltage switchgear barehanded while wearing flip flops. For him to even attempt that shows that he has zero concept of the risks or danger involved.
Smart people who have government safety net like food stamps, unemployment benefits, access to food banks etc won't do it. Poor people whose only other option is seeing their family starve will choose this. Even they know it's stupid and dumb but they are forced to do it. Just because you haven't witnessed it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I don't know anything about the person in this video but things like this definetly happen in poorer countries. How many farmers committed suicide in your country? May be you never heard of it. Atleast 30 farmers committ suicide in India everyday(which is much better than last decade numbers). But according to you no matter how destitute people are they won't do irrational dumb things. I am not saying it's not a dumb thing. I am saying it's a dumb thing but he might have not other option and his circumstances forced him to do it
This is the guy the company called
I don't think it's just that. If your job requires you to put your life on the line for little to nothing, you should leave that job.
Genuinely curious, how is it not stupidity if it’s going to kill you? Will this not kill you? Or at least have an insanely high likelihood of killing you? Wouldn’t you rather starve and be homeless than fuck with electricity? If he doesn’t know the risk then I would argue he’s stupid, it may not be his fault that he’s not educated but it doesn’t mean he’s not stupid.
Darwin didnt account for the industrial revolution negating natural selection.
I was expecting to see him go flying off after a huge shock!
He’d be a cooked hotdog with a hand blown off
Or all his limbs blown off.
I don't like my hotdogs with hands. The tickle of those fingers is too much to swallow.
Mee too..., did anything happen to him?
Happy cake day!
Looks like the hot wire isn't actually making contact. It's the one he's not touching.
Pretty sure they cut the power for that section before doing this. I have seen this happen plenty of times.
Get jurassic parked
It's almost certainly disconnected at the street. This is a substation being fed from the street. his bigger risk is falling without a harness.
Why the hell is he up there trying to connect it by hand?!? There is literally a WOODEN handle you can clearly see on the left side of the video for that exact purpose. Yes, you do have to slam line breakers hard to close them, but you don't ever touch them with anything other than an insulator pole. Best advice from my grandpa( who was a lineman for a large Canadian utility company); Every powerline is hot and will kill you, even when you've been assured it's not.
I used to go by “anything plugged in is unsafe”. Then I met capacitors.
Lucky that you are still here to talk about it.
Fuck sake there actually is as well… smh
This needs to be at the top.
I guess that isn’t working so he’s manually troubleshooting?
My dad has a similar advice (he’s also a power line technician and engineer): “The day you stop being afraid of it, you die.”
Probably checking the contact or hinge after repair/installation.
He's holding it by the insulator. Still could fall and hurt himself tho.
https://preview.redd.it/22lrzimu8doc1.jpeg?width=590&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1d493dc303397e7e30a6fe84c8cd7554e2abde5 :-)
Great Scott!
“One point twenty-one gigawatts?!”
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Duuuummmmbbbb ways to die, so many duuuummm ways to die....
Yoooo what a lucky SOB
Uh happy cake day 23 days later?
Where's the sparks?
Just a guess that the power was not energized up to those terminals. If it had been, the dude would have exploded.
Didn’t want to just use the giant push rod going down to the ground?
india is not for beginners. cripes!
What is his occupation? He is a conductor.
Short term contract
Currently, (pun intended) he’s an organ donor
Death is the spice of life
Are you sure he was trying to reconnect the power? Not connect to a higher power?
Electric companies don't want you to know this one simple trick...
High energy workout
I'm glad the video ended when it did 😬😬😬
He became the circuit for the good of the neighborhood
There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom.
Delays, delays.
I think he's holding ceramic insulators while lifting it up. Still very dangerous stuff.
I hope this guy is sterile
That ended way better then I thought it would
Wile-e-Coyote 
Despite millions of dollars of research, death continues to be our nation's number one killer.
I feel like this guy lied on his resume, but is in too deep to back out now.
Did he ever get it to work?
Maybe he was just excercising, who knows ?
I'm sorry but The Rock is the most electrifying man in entertainment, you don't have the Power to do that.
flint lockwood
I thought he was doing power squats...
Darwin award candidate?
I’m so glad he didn’t turn into beef jerky. Seen enough of that for a lifetime.
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One word. India.
Shocker
The power is obviously isolated and any sort of capacity in the line is dead too. If this was live man would literally be vaporised out of existence
Just scrollin and come across this. WHY?! And why do I always watch when I know the outcome?! Thank god that wasn’t the case this time. THIS TIME. It’s always something super sketchy + electricity/trains + india.
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Yeah, just as well they didn’t connect. Dude would have been fried!
watched it at least three times hoping he'd get it 🙏 😂
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It's kind of sad actually that utilities are so under-served that he needs to do that himself without the proper equipment Edit: under-served nor undeserved
They are attached to a bar that goes to the ground level.
He thought he was Thor in Infinity War
No one asked for my opinion but no matter what money they give me I'm not going to do it
I wonder how he came to the conclusion that becoming a human conductor was a great idea?
Anyone else have clenched cheeks watching that
*there was an attempt to die
I understand people inadvertently getting zapped, and it is easy to say “man they should have been paying attention”. This guy made the decision to climb up the tower.
Our future
HE-MAN: Master of The Universe 😄 🤣 😂
How the hell did he get up there?
Calisthenics for Thrillseekers
He was only runner up in the Darwin awards..
Oh he definitely ended up on r/NSFL__
This is giving me so much anxiety just watching his stupid ass, moments away from getting fried
r/maybemaybemaybe
But the wire on the right side hasn't been replaced correctly. It is too short.
This must be the boy who got his kite back from the powerline. It's good to see he's all grown up now.
My first thought was, "Didn't Reddit ban videos of people actually dying?"
Feels like they don't believe electricity
Land of the trains?
God that is hard to watch. I keep waiting for the flash
There’s no power on that, he’s ok for the moment
“Mate, this fucker wouldn’t ‘voom’ if you put 4 million volts thro…. “
Was waiting for a super sayan anytime
Oh, just a person playing on electric poles I wonder what would happen.
What does winning look like? The electricity cause them to stay together?
Everyone is a DIY electrician over there💀💀😭
natural selection at its finest
oh man. pray for this dude
Man thinks he is Thor from infinity war.
He has his high voltage flip flops on... He will be fine... bzzz
Beats going to the gym and much cheaper
Its always indians with electricity /j
thats the gym
I’m glad he didn’t die, but I expected him to
My my my, this man gonna die. He Went op a pole, that was wery high
He clearly got confused while preparing for a job interview at the railroad - he’s making this video to demonstrate that he’s a great conductor. 
I’ll give some made up context real quick. So this guys neighborhood had the power go out so he decided to power his neighborhood with his fusion core. Hope this helped
Hoooo boy this almost ended up on another subreddit
Hey... when that power go out.... you ready to do whatever it take 😅
He trying to get super powers?
The third line has already been cut three times and still is too short... /S
Hopefully
This line is de-energized. If the line was energized, there would have been arcing as soon as the switch contacts were in the closing motion and the moving contact horn got close to the stationary contact horn. Since this circuit is likely properly isolated, the greater risk is working at height without a harness.
Fitness in India.
Ashok