Here’s A Shocker

This answers that question — not dead but not good either:

In a shocking episode, a drunken 21-year-old Penn State student fell onto the third rail in Union Square Station early yesterday — but miraculously lived to tell the tale.

Steven Waddell, of Fairfield, N.J., told The Post from his bed at St. Vincent’s Hospital yesterday evening that he doesn’t remember much, but knows he’s fortunate to be alive.

“I feel like I should be dead now,” he said. “I really didn’t feel like dying that day, I guess.”

Despite lying on the rail for more than two minutes, Waddell only suffered burns to his right elbow and thumb.

“It paralyzed me right away. I tried to pull away from it, but your body doesn’t let you,” he recalled. “I thought I went to hell. It felt like my body was being literally torn apart.”

Before the incident, Waddell had been out for a night of high-voltage drinking with some friends from high school at a bar on Lafayette Street.

Around 2:30 a.m., he and a pal called it quits and walked to the N and R platform to catch the train to his father’s Manhattan apartment.

Woozy with drink, the college senior leaned over the platform’s edge to see if a train was coming and lost his footing, tumbling into the tracks and onto the third rail — which was coursing with 600 volts of electricity.

As his buddy ran to get help, Waddell passed out and lay on the track for more than two minutes before authorities were able to pry him free.