{"id":21410,"date":"2021-08-27T01:29:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T05:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=21410"},"modified":"2021-08-23T22:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T02:43:35","slug":"going-round-the-bend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/going-round-the-bend\/","title":{"rendered":"going &#8217;round the bend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21411\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dangerous-selfie-in-Toronto-subway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21411\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21411\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dangerous-selfie-in-Toronto-subway-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don&#8217;t try this at home!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. This digital image was recently posted to instagram and shows a &#8216;selfie&#8217; taken by someone hanging onto the back of a TTC Subway train. \u00a0Very 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my good friend George Dunbar for spotting this photo on instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. This digital image was recently posted to instagram and shows a &#8216;selfie&#8217; taken by someone hanging onto the back of a TTC Subway train. \u00a0Very dangerous! The photographer could have fallen on the third rail or fallen and been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/going-round-the-bend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705],"tags":[105,393,1122,3816,3815],"class_list":["post-21410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-digital","tag-instagram","tag-selfie","tag-subway","tag-ttc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21415,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21410\/revisions\/21415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}