Don’t try this at home!
Toronto. This digital image was recently posted to instagram and shows a ‘selfie’ taken by someone hanging onto the back of a TTC Subway train. Very dangerous! The photographer could have fallen on the third rail or fallen and been too confused to get out of the way of a following train. A potentially fatal situation in either case.
Decades ago I met an Electrician called Alex who was missing a middle finger on one hand. As a youth he had worked on an industrial crane and accidentally brushed a live 500 volt DC line. The only thing that saved him was that he was atop a tall ladder and the shock caused him to fall breaking the connection before he was killed.
Thanks to my good friend George Dunbar for spotting this photo on instagram.
