The 16-year-old ‘electric boy’ from India can withstand shocking 11,000 volts

The 16-year-old ‘electric boy’ from India can withstand shocking 11,000 volts

Mangalore Today News Network

Jan 29, 2015: He discovered this talent when he was repairing his mother’s heater and he accidentally touched a live wire with his screw driver but emerged unscathed.

Two weeks later, while examining his DVD player, the same thing happened again. This was, apparently, when Jangra realised that he was ’special’.





Three years on, Deepak has experimented with electronic gadgets by the dozen. The outcome is always the same - the devices would stop working and not a scratch on him.

Light bulbs, TV wires, an electric woodcutter and even an electrical water pump, Deepak realised that he "could cope with 110 volts, 240 volts, 440 volts and my curiosity kept on growing. I wanted to know more and more. How much I could actually cope with?’

Curiosity got the best of Deepak, when he decided to climb an electric pole in his village and touch the 11,000 voltage high-tension wire that lights up his village.

 

While the true intensity of a shock(amount of current) is actually measured in amperes, here is some perspective. Gaurav Singh, an electrical engineer from Delhi said "’Even if a man is standing five meters away he can get pulled by the high-tension wire and burn to death. If a person touches 11,000 volts, he wouldn’t get a shock - he would die instantly.

His widowed mother, baffled by her 16-year old son’s astonishing ability, believes that "...it is the blessing of his late father. His father passed away in October 2011 and in April 2012 he found he had this talent."



Nonetheless, what Deepak does is life-threatening. ’Electricity has the potential to kill or seriously injure anyone unfortunate enough to come in to contact with it, so it is baffling that someone would voluntarily put themselves at such risk," experts warn.