The video hit an awful moment when daredevil walks on 9-foot electric pole before receiving a charge current and falls down.
After drinking beer, the man decided to perform a risky stunt in front of a crowd of students at the party near the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio on Friday evening.
The video of this terrible incident is seen as a noisy crowd of students screaming, looking up at how a young man rises to the top of the pole. But reaching the top of the post, he for some reason decided to touch the wire under tension, which led to the fact that through it passed a powerful electric charge. For a second he seems to be paralysed because of the shock, before you tumbled and fell on concrete from a great height. After that, the other witnesses of the incident rushed to his aid, as he lay on the floor helpless.
Hate doing this but I don’t have a choice while I’m out of work.. https://t.co/QnQWheXrKq pic.twitter.com/5TeHcFjFIN
— Tyler 🏂 (@TylerUher97) September 16, 2019
Given what they just saw, the students feared that the devil might be dead. However, somehow he managed to survive as a powerful electric shock and fall. First he had to fight for his life in hospital, but to everyone’s surprise and joy, he recovered.
Police have not formally confirmed the name of the man, but NBC4 reports that he could face charges of criminal damage. At the same time at the University of Ohio has stated that in high school he wasn’t learning.
Later on Twitter user Tyler Her called himself a victim to the trick and opened up a page for fundraising, explaining that he has a damaged back and leg and he still can’t work.
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Tyler wrote: «I hate to do it, but I have no choice until I’m not at work. I broke 3 bones in my left leg, and 1 passed through the skin. I have a small crack right hand and 4 in the back. In addition, I got a lot of burns. I won’t be able to work at least 8 weeks or more, so any help».
His sister has set a pretty ambitious goal to raise $100 thousand, but had so far received only $895. She explained that this amount is the cost of the treatment of Tyler.
Video of the fall of the young man shared anonymously in social networks on the weekends, and it has already been viewed over 800 thousand times.
Student Tyler Rosen, who witnessed the incident, told NBC4: «I was shocked. I was just trying to stay strong and to help the man. I didn’t know what to do, it was mind-blowing. I thought he was dead, no explanation for how he survived. It is a blessing. I have a lump in my throat when I think about it.»
Some social media users decided that he doesn’t deserve help with treatment. Someone wrote: «It is Your fault that You did so. You deserve the money. Life at risk is just silly.» Another said, «What in God’s name were You thinking?» A third added: «you don’t mess with electricity».
