Tura, July 13: Power cut! Snapped line, poor maintenance or a safety switch, are seldom termed acceptable in today’s modern way of life where almost everything depends on electricity. But sometimes, a power cut can come immensely handy.
Such as when saving a precious young life!
A teenaged girl, angry with her parents after a bitter argument at home, tried to take the extreme step by climbing up an electrical pole and flinging herself onto the high tension wires in her village of Siju in South Garo Hills during the morning hours of Monday.
She had been reprimanded by her father over a trivial matter which she apparently could not digest and in a fit of immature reasoning tried to end it all by climbing the electric post.
But, this was not to be her day of reckoning as the high tension wires she clung on to did not have any electricity flowing through them.
Dangerously dangling from the wires several feet high above, in what seemed an eternity waiting for her “electrical surge”, fate had other plans for the young teen as the lines never got charged. With frustration written on her face, she was ultimately brought down, in one piece – alive and kicking, by a handful of villagers who climbed up the pole to get her back to safety.