[Closed] Shocking footage?

Apart from the legals is it any more shocking than dashing into the road to pick something up?

South East London is all live rail - the big one he nearly dropped onto carries a fair few volts. I imagine he would've fried on the spot.

Yes. That's appalling language from a "so called" lady.

Apart from the legals is it any more shocking than dashing into the road to pick something up?

I think the live rail makes it different - it not just the risk of being hit by a train. Not that surprising though.

More appalled by the language.

[i]Take a look at the shocking footage below[/i]

I couldn't find any. wish I could jump like that though. With my old legs I would've been stuck down there til someone pulled me out.

brooess - Member

South East London is all live rail - the big one he nearly dropped onto carries a fair few volts. I imagine he would've fried on the spot.

The only rail he goes near is the one the train wheels go on. The live (or 3rd rail) is the third rail, which for this sort of reason is the furthest from the platform, for exactly this reason.
It carries 750v DC give or take, but you have to be quite close to it to get zapped (not recommended obviously).
Given he goes down immediately after the train departs and he's up pretty quickly I dont see that he was in any immediate danger.
Mountain out of a molehill.
Unlike some lad who climbed on top of a wagon in Yorkshire a few weeks ago, who touched the OH live wires (25Kv AC). ZAP! Dead.

He was well away from the live rail and a train had just passed so there was no danger of being hit by a train. While not the recommended course of action, it's a bit of a mountain out of a mole hill. One of those things that's best not reporting as it hardly reminds people of the dangers of such an action.

The danger is not in the fact that the 3rd rail in the interval between the two tracks is live, it's the fact that he's made the assumption that just because the last train has left the platform there isn't a service due that doesn't stop.

Granted it wouldn't be that close to the departing train but, should that train be slightly behind schedule there's no reason why the following train could not pull into that section and approach the now red signal at caution waiting for the next section to be clear to allow it's passage.

Bloody stupid thing to do for a phone.

I don't know what is going on with The Independent

I seem to remember it as a decent newspaper

I don't know what is going on with The Independent

I seem to remember it as a decent newspaper

Indeed. Not a biggy in my book. Following train would have to be going very slowly not to crash into the train that had just left the station so non issue. Obviously wouldn't be recommended and you would expect a bollocking from station staff but the risk/gain ratio is firmly in the gain court for me there.

My concerns:-
Language a bit potty mouthed.
What sad sack was filming it in the first place (before anything had happened or they were aware something was going to happen)

Not much danger at all, hardly a big drop down, nowhere near the live rail, no trains coming. The average cycle commuter in London faces much more danger during every minute of their journey.

Only things shocking about that video are firstly that it was even filmed and posted on-line in the first place, the girl who filmed it's over-reaction and subsequent foul language, the 30 seconds of my life I'll never get back from watching it, and the fact that the paper even bothered to publish it.

Also worrying that the police would spend time investigating this, especially when they seem to have done 'rat-all' about helping my friend who had his expensive car stolen last week.

Given he goes down immediately after the train departs and he's up pretty quickly I dont see that he was in any immediate danger.
Mountain out of a molehill.

+1

Apologies for any language, I haven't got sound here! 😳

Yep, mountain out of a molehill and I'd have done exactly the same. Not close enough to the live rail to be worried, directly after a train has left the station so almost zero risk of being hit and a small drop to easy to get back up. Move along, nothing to see here.

Errr... I used to do a bit of graffiti back in the late 80s..

Railway lines were our playground.. No one died

I was more shocked at the reaction from onlookers... The station by my folks live by has a gap in the live rails of around 15m or so and we used to jump down walk across the tracks and use the step (brick sticking out of the wall) at the other side to get up. Mind you so did the station guard...

I think now they have managed to put the fear into so many people that even standing near the yellow line is too terrifying to imagine...

[i]What sad sack was filming it in the first place[/i]

It's 2015. People film anything and (mostly) nothing.