{"id":1217,"date":"2006-06-26T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T16:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/heres_a_shocker.html"},"modified":"2006-06-26T08:48:17","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T16:48:17","slug":"heres_a_shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/heres_a_shocker.html","title":{"rendered":"Here’s A Shocker"},"content":{"rendered":"

This answers that question — not dead but not good either<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I should be dead now,” he said. “I really didn’t feel like dying that day, I guess.”<\/p>\n

Despite lying on the rail for more than two minutes, Waddell only suffered burns to his right elbow and thumb.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}