Man Electrocuted on Train in India

This post has been translated into Korean as 남자 감전사 에 안에 인도 (한국). Spanish translation here (en Español). German version here (in deutscher Sprache).

This is one of the latest shock videos making the rounds, though not many have seen it yet. It shows a man in India who is up on the roof of a train stopped at a train station. The man is mentally ill and possibly psychotic.

There is a huge crowd on the ground. The crowd down below is yelling at him to come down, but he pays them no attention. He leans down to grab the hands of some people on the ground a couple of times in an effort to try to climb down off the train, but these efforts seem to fail. Then he starts walking jauntily along the roof of the train for a few yards. There are high tension wires swaying up above.

At one point, he reaches up for some unknown reason, possibly to steady himself, and grabs the high tension wires. He is quickly electrocuted. His entire body catches fire, and he is quickly burned to a blackened crisp in a matter of seconds. Then you see some fluid pouring down the side of the train. Incredibly enough, that is his blood. When you get his by that much current, your blood literally boils and explodes out of your body.

Definitely a Darwin Award winner.
This post supplies some details about the incident. The incident occurred in May 2009. The man was traveling on the Mahananda Express en route from Delhi to Alipurduar. He had embarked at Aligarh. He grabbed the wires, and in a second, he was dead. The charge was 25,000 volts DC. He probably grabbed the wire to steady himself on top of the train. Reportedly, 4 rescue workers came to the scene, and two of them were killed by electricity trying to get him off the train.