http://www.madeyoustare.com A crazy blog into the human world of weirdness and laughter! Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:04:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.madeyoustare.com/rated-21/indian-man-electrocuted-in-blinding-explosions/ http://www.madeyoustare.com/rated-21/indian-man-electrocuted-in-blinding-explosions/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:15:52 +0000 Ross http://www.madeyoustare.com/?p=143 Click here to view the embedded video.

This is a quite unique and remarkable piece of footage, something you don’t see every day. At a busy Indian train station, a disturbed man climbs onto the roof of a train and touches the overhanging live wires. You don’t have to be Thomas Edison to guess what happens next. He is enveloped by two big explosions and turned completely soot-black. His corpse then falls to the floor smoking profusely. As you’d expect, the crowd at the station turn and run as soon as the first explosion happens.

The sheer size of the explosions are quite surprising.

Almost like those caused by mortar bombs. After they occur, the man lies smoking and bleeding down the edges of the train for the rest of the clip as the general public mill around uncertain what to do or where to go. Presumably no one goes to offer help for fear of being electrocuted when touching his body. Also, it is quite clear that the man is dead after such an ordeal, so that would probably stop people bothering to go to him. The odd thing is he sits quietly and contentedly on the roof of the train for the first half of the clip and then seems to stand up and touch the wire almost on a whim, just to see what happens.

The blurb on YouTube states that the man is ‘mentally unstable’

Indeed he must have been to get up on that roof without thinking through the consequences. Indian trains are renowned for their busy and frenzied nature and accidents of this kind are almost bound to happen when you consider that it is quite normal for people to ride long distances sat on the roof. Before this man goes up in the explosions, other potential commuters explore the space available but soon back of when they see this pour soul reaching higher and higher until he touches those deadly wires. These too are a part of the landscape of India, hanging dangerously low in busy parts of cities. Monkeys regularly suffer the same fate because they obviously like to jump high and climb about.

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This is a very weird and funny sight because you don’t see this kind of thing much anymore: amateur bareknuckle fighters swinging at each other until one of them collapses. Towards the end the crowd start to intervene, hurling abuse at one of the men, like he hasn’t got enough to worry about already with a broken nose and smashed-up face! Even more laughably, there is even a referee adjudicating this chaos, as if rules are necessary in this all-out fight to the last.

As you might expect, this bareknuckle boxing

match-up is nothing like the movies where men can take a good pasting and keep coming back for more. When one of these irish gypsies runs in for a flurry of punches, they look like they damn well hurt and his opponent smarts backward as you would if someone had smacked you a few times on the chin. There is a brief problem towards the end of the clip when the fighting men refuse to shake hands and are lambasted by their coaches for it. This show of gentlemanliness hardly makes sense given how these guys have been punishing each other for the last 8 minutes. Although bareknuckle boxing was banned in the USA in 1889 and other developed countries around the same time, this clip proves its popularity especially given that a pretty large and vocal crowd has gathered to spectate and/or place bets.

At the conclusion of the clip we get an up close

and personal look at one of the men and, as you’d expect, it’s really not pretty. One of his eyes has completely closed up, his cheeks are black with bruising, his ears have been more or less flattened and his lips look like they have been ripped inside out, washed through with blood and then sewn back together again. You wonder whether he’ll stick at this grueling occupation or maybe try his hand at something less painful like… chartered accountancy. If he had good looks before this fight then it’s doubtful he still has them now. Ouch.

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