Not for the faint of heart, but all the talk about high voltage I’ve given in the last couple of days and what happens to the human body, this little clip has been all over my email lately. It’s graphic. (Click on the picture for the movie. One more time! NOT for the squeamish!)
The guy is ON FIRE when it’s over.
That’s 25,000 volts AC that he grabs. The conductor is the power supply for electrified trains. It’s somewhere in India.
AD 70 – Titus and his Roman legions, Fretensis, Apollinaris and Flavia Felix breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
1829 – The HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. And I’m thinking that calling yourself the commander of HMS Pickle would be a good way to get an audition with the Village People.
1944 – On the eve of the Normandy invasion, German Fieldmarshal Rommel goes on vacation. I’ve timed vacations similarly.
1947 – Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
1965 – Showing America’s continued prominence in the realms of good taste in music, “Wooly Bully” by Sam the Sham & Pharaohs hits #2 on the pop charts.
1967 – Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, hangs out sign: “Ass-kicking in Progress”
1968 – U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day. Some of that ‘religion of peace’ at work. Sirhan believed he was deliberately betrayed by Kennedy’s support for Israel in the June 1967 Six-Day War. Imagine! A dmmocrat presidential candidate supporting Israel. But things were different back then. You could be a dimmocrat candidate and still have a brain.
1977 – The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five people in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS. This was when AIDS prevention meant sitting on your butt and keeping your mouth shut.