The most astonishing monkey bars ever.

Am I the only one watching to see if any of them gets shocked?

You morbid somagun, welcome to the club.

A soma gun sounds like something diddy would use.

You mean vaporized

Not so much vaporized as immediately dead and set on fire. Which isn’t any better, just different.

I think all of the fluid in your body would instantly vaporize though not sure

This kind of reminds me of that video of an Indian guy atop a electric train, held the power line to balance and went “poof”. One of those lost media of somebody dying on camera, which left a big impression on my memory. By poof I meant he turned into coal in a bright flash. And then lit up and fell. But he was very thin. Probably malnourished.

go stiff and fall

Just cooked bro, it’s not a bazillion volts and amps.

I’m pretty sure it’s powered off, which means the monkeys now learn that it’s a great idea to do this and won’t get a second chance when the power line is turned on and it no longer is a great idea. (At 0:10 the monkey seems to be touching both the pole and the wire, and those are some hefty insulators.)

Not only that, they were holding 2 wires, which are generally different phases of the same circuit, which also would have shocked.

Okay I was wondering how they were just doing this no problem.

Well, the next time they try it on a powered line, the second little guy in line will probably change their mind about it pretty fast.

I wonder if it’ll take the second guy trying for them to stop trying. I totally expect them to run away after the first one gets fried, then come back, get curious, the second one trying to carefully poke the line, and *then* they stop…

That was pretty much my guess. Monkeys are at least smart enough to stop monkey doing this when they monkey see others start dropping off like flies after completing a circuit.

Zapped monkey is good eatin’

Second only to Squirrel

When I went to Costa Rica that happened to a monkey outside our hotel. We woke up to no power and a fried monkey dangling from the wires.

Yeah me too. Mainly because this is r/wtf and not r/mildlyinteresting

Electric ~~chair~~ wire for those fucking ooh ooh aah aah eek eek thieves? I’d like front row seats.

Exactly what I was looking for. I lived in Costa Rica for a bit and a monkey got shocked by climbing on the wires. It died and was just there for about a week until it started to smell and someone finally removed it.

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Unexpected Peter Gabriel.

Unexpected hate for Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel in shambles

Straight to the top here we go

Is enough of reddit old enough to know the reference? Or even know who Peter Gabriel is or the song?

His song – “Big Time” is the most criminally underrated piece of music ever. I wish more people would listen to it with some decent headphones and hear everything that’s going on. Never get tired of that track.

Big time and sledgehammer are both great and I love the music videos. So creative.

I did a music project analysing the film clip to sledgehammer many many years ago. Got an A+ for it and enjoyed every minute. Big time is also brilliant, but growing up and Solsbury hill are two more of my favourites.