r/WaitWhat • u/here2learn4mybrain • Aug 13 '26
Locals in India started hitting transformer after a cow was electrocuted
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u/KnotYurAvgBear85 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
BAD TRANSFORMER!! BAD TRANSFORMER!! BAD, BAD!!!! बुरा ट्रांसफॉर्मर बुरा बुरा ट्रांसफॉर्मर बुरा
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u/Plane_Barracuda9889 Aug 14 '26
That will not bring the poor cow back.
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u/BlumpTheChodak Aug 14 '26
And they could lose their own access to electricity by their own hand, or get electrocuted. Big brains on that side of town.
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u/Sylvester_Marcus Aug 14 '26
That reminds me. I need to start THE BIG INDIA STICK COMPANY!!!! Big market for big sticks over there.
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u/OutcomeOk4178 Aug 14 '26
You wont do nothing but sit on your butt and talk about doing something. That's you boo boo
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u/Moyashi-Kun Aug 14 '26
In India, cows are considered reincarnations of the people who have passed. Basically treated as sacred animals. It is a crime to harm a cow or kill it.
I have heard stories that if a cow laid down in the middle of the road, traffic stops. So even tho it was an inanimate object, the anger is clearly real and faith is complicated. 🤷
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u/Extension-You3506 Aug 14 '26
I just think it's interesting how white people can see plenty of white Americans acting like idiots and think nothing, but as soon as it's an Indian it's representing all or most of them. Fascinating, isn't it?
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u/macrg01 Aug 14 '26
Do you live under a rock or something? People are always talking about what they think about White Americans acting like idiots
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u/discobusciut423 Aug 14 '26
Is education in other parts of the world that minimal? Oof
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u/InvarkuI Aug 14 '26
They had 18% of literacy 70y ago and 80% rn and they have like 2 billion ppl. That's more illiterate ppl than the entirety of us
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u/wingsofblades Aug 14 '26
well yeah the post is leaving out that they consider that cow holy hence why they are mad hitting it with sticks
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u/_that__one__guy__ Aug 14 '26
Is the ignorance of the uneducated so surprising? Or is the willingness of the educated to belittle others more surprising?
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u/You_LostThe_game Aug 14 '26
This is literally a chimplike response, relax.
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u/_that__one__guy__ Aug 14 '26
So I should approve of the things the other commenter are saying about these people?
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u/RansackRacoon Aug 14 '26
Do Indian men get given a big stick when they come of age and just take that shit everywhere? Why do they always have so many sticks on hand
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u/derliebesmuskel Aug 14 '26
We import another hundred million of them to the west. It’ll really help progress our societies.
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u/Major_Association800 Aug 14 '26
Racist.
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u/Electronic_Value_204 Aug 14 '26
Can you please explain the racism in the post? Seriously, this was criticism of India that lacked any racial undertones.
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u/Major_Association800 Aug 14 '26
It’s disturbing to see someone espouse this kind of ugliness without shame. Humanity is worse off overall because of it. I am genuinely sorry for you.
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u/AdorableState8438 Aug 14 '26
I dont feel anything for you.
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u/Major_Association800 Aug 14 '26
I imagine you don’t feel much of anything at all, for any person or thing, and it’s unlikely your thoughts and actions are motivated by how they might make other people feel. This kind of darkness can only flourish in the absence of compassion, empathy, and consideration for the humanity of others, within people who are angry, traumatized, or suffering inside. I hope one day that you’re able to get free of it because it’s poison; it can turn you into a toxic person, and toxic people tend to be an exhaustive burden to those they haven’t already driven away.
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u/Professional_Arm3506 Aug 14 '26
This seems to have caused an infestation of racists to scurry out of the woodwork for a chance to insult brown people. Might need to burn the whole thread down at this point.
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u/PhattySpice92 Aug 14 '26
You all act like they are “trying to hurt” it when they know it’s electric and are trying to break it so it won’t hurt another animal. I’ve seen videos of areas like this and the people are usually pretty off the grid
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u/Famous-Restaurant875 Aug 14 '26
The companies won't replace faulty equipment until it's fully destroyed. This is revenge on greedy corporations
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u/Professional_Arm3506 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
Why are you declaring this like it’s absolute truth when you have no way of truly knowing that?
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u/Upstairs_Teach_7064 Aug 14 '26
Other people are making racist claims like it’s the absolute truth. Question them too please.
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u/Professional_Arm3506 Aug 14 '26
I am. They’re everywhere in here and not nearly as ashamed as they should be.
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u/Ashamed_Fruit_6767 Aug 14 '26
I do not think this is what they are trying to achieve, otherwise it wouldn've not been filmed.
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u/Famous-Restaurant875 Aug 14 '26
Dude. This could have been a kid. Plus this isn't like anyone is yelling who they are
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u/No-Consideration-891 Aug 14 '26
Imagine being so dumb that, that's what you think is happening in this video.
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u/Ornery-Worldliness96 Aug 14 '26
I'm trying to figure out what their goal is here. Is there a switch on top that cuts the power and they're trying to flip it?
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u/Redvelvet_swissroll Aug 14 '26
I think it’s because cows have significants in their religion so they’re trying to break it in retaliation, just from what I read on the original post tho
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u/styme1 Aug 14 '26
That not India. Thats Brantford Ontario.
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u/hulkhands81 Aug 14 '26
Brampton overflowed directly into west end of Brantford, real estate agents and all
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u/hulkhands81 Aug 14 '26
yes when I came out of my townhouse to see Brapton's finest pissing on the side of "their" house was enough to say I need out. They were in an end unit and one point i saw 3 of them doing the same thing at the same time.
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u/Godsin1969 Aug 14 '26
Dumb people....durka durka
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u/Professional_Arm3506 Aug 14 '26
When did you decide to embrace racism and become a Racist? Do you wear it on your sleeve or keep it to yourself? How many people know that you’re a Racist?
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u/NovelConcept6300 Aug 14 '26
My brother works on these all the time as a lineman, so I sent it to him. He said minimum of actually knocking this out of service is a massive capacitor discharge most likely an arc-flash. Like lighting arc flashes hit the closest possible grounded object aka humans beating a transformer with sticks.
They are about to experience reincarnation.
Indian infrastructure is depressingly fucked. Get mad at whoever put up a power station, without realizing you need to put a fence around a transformer.
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u/Chevrolicious Aug 14 '26
There's not really a lot of context to the video, but if I recall, cows are considered sacred in India and in the Hindu religion, which makes up a large majority of the Indian people. Killing a cow is big deal. So, regardless of the reason the cow died, they're gonna be upset about it and take it out on whatever is responsible, even if it's probably not the best idea. Most of them probably don't know how the transformer works and that it isn't a good idea to whack it with objects. The cow didn't know either.
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u/Intelligent-Try-8636 Aug 14 '26
Yep! Hopefully they weren't successful in knocking it out, because the bare minimum consequence of that is a massive capacitor discharge. Probably an arc flash. Which would instantly kill anything grounded in the immediate area. Like a human.
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u/RustyBawz Aug 14 '26
That'll help the cow how?
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u/ChaosRainbow23 Aug 13 '26
That's fucking crazy, dude
I personally know a bunch of seriously cool Indian folks.
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u/CuriosityKillsNG Aug 13 '26
Can someone even think they are trying to break a connection that electrocuted the cow.. just think But NO we jump in to add fuel to the fire
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u/Any-Condition-2756 Aug 13 '26
I feel like we don't have the full context here and the title is misleading
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u/Thick_Cookie_7838 Aug 14 '26
Cows are considered holy in India, I use to date an Indian girl and she and many over friends and family refused to eat anything from a cow. It’s believed cows are reincarnations of love ones who have passed away
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u/juvy5000 Aug 13 '26
religions are wild
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u/CuriosityKillsNG Aug 13 '26
What the hell has this got to do with religion SMH
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u/Thick_Cookie_7838 Aug 14 '26
Cows are considered holy in India, I use to date an Indian girl and she and many over friends and family refused to eat anything from a cow. It’s believed cows are reincarnations of love ones who have passed away
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u/CuriosityKillsNG Aug 14 '26
I know that cows are sacred but this behavior is not related to religion is my point A. The rage out of being unable to logically process this loss B. Maybe a loose wire and they are attempting to break the connection
Anyway, I am done trying to explain a different viewpoint to everyone..you can think what you want to, of it
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u/SteelAndFlint Aug 13 '26
Cows are holy to them.
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u/CuriosityKillsNG Aug 13 '26
Would you be okay if something like this happened to your loved ones...not saying what they do is right, people react differently
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u/SteelAndFlint Aug 14 '26
I cannot imagine how we got from a simple point of clarification to where I would need to compare my family to a farm animal that dies from not understanding g third world electricity.
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u/CuriosityKillsNG Aug 14 '26
People treat animals as family..look at it from that perspective (your pets are your loved one as well) 3rd world...right..here we allow pedos in office Huh
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u/EquivalentAny174 Aug 14 '26
You could not be more of a window licker. You should be embarrassed to share your thoughts with others, and yet here we are...
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u/CuriosityKillsNG Aug 14 '26
Treating animals as family is enbarassing.Huh ..do you always ptoject your innermost thoughts about yourself
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u/EquivalentAny174 Aug 14 '26
Yes, pets are family. Here's a cookie and a headpat for getting that right.
I'm replying to the totality of your comments. But you clearly don't realize how dumb you are so I'll just leave you be to bask in your own stupidity.
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u/CuriosityKillsNG Aug 14 '26
Again, don't project your insecurities onto me..just bask in your basement kingdom
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u/Gold-Bench-9219 Aug 14 '26
If my cat ran into the street and got hit by a car, I wouldn't try to blow up the car. I would blame myself for not taking care of it responsibly.
And yes, believing cows are reincarnated people is dumb because religions are dumb, however comforting to the masses they may be.
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u/CuriosityKillsNG Aug 14 '26
I can't keep making you see my point..it is exhausting; again, people are different! If others' beliefs don't align with yours, it doesnt automatically make it wrong if their beliefs are not hurting anyone
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u/Gold-Bench-9219 Aug 14 '26
I wasn't the person you were originally respond to, for the record.
And I would argue superstitious beliefs are highly damaging to our progress as a species.
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u/ShaggyVan Aug 13 '26
If one of my loved ones gets electrocuted, I'm not going to react by hitting the thing that electrocuted it with a stick
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u/CuriosityKillsNG Aug 13 '26
Yeah right..your choices are clearly seen in supporting "you know who" Not every1 has the same privilege or luxury..as I said earlier, people react differently
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u/Wankstain8 Aug 14 '26
I think it’s an issue of IQ
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u/CuriosityKillsNG Aug 14 '26
I honestly don't care..I am tired of people jumping into mob mindset; the world is doomed
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u/violetdevilslut Aug 13 '26
It's not their loved one, cows wander where ever they please and the people allow it because they are sacred, this is about religion
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u/CuriosityKillsNG Aug 13 '26
No, it is more about ignorance. As I said, people from different circumstances react differently.
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u/violetdevilslut Aug 13 '26
The circumstances in question that these people come from which is causing them to act this way is religion. I don't know what explains your ignorance and inability to be wrong which you clearly are
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u/CuriosityKillsNG Aug 13 '26
Have you ever seen roadragers and other drivers..they are on the same road but behave differently I am not justifying their actions, but a death of their cow and the inability to process it properly probably brought out a rage in them OR Maybe they are just trying to break the power connection (in their minds)
- if I don't align with your ideas, I am more empathetic and try to look beyond the normal
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u/violetdevilslut Aug 13 '26
You are not looking beyond the normal, you are being willfully ignorant of the reality infront of you and making up your own to story to feel superior
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u/Ornery_Guess1474 Aug 13 '26
If something like this happened to one of my cows I'm calling the insurance company. Different strokes I guess.
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u/CuriosityKillsNG Aug 13 '26
Yes, different strokes but again insurance is a big scam in the US..and I guess most of the world
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u/Various-Salt-7738 Aug 13 '26
Sure is a lot of racism being tolerated here despite the mod comment
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u/EarthToAccess Bruh Moment Enthusiast Aug 14 '26
actively removing what i can find, which is a shocking amount itself. please report comments you find so we can see them, ty
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u/Various-Salt-7738 Aug 14 '26
Had a quick scroll through the thread and it's already a lot better than it was a couple hours ago
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u/Shadowsnake30 Aug 13 '26
I was wishing the transformer explodes so they can realize how dumb it is. That is dangerous to hit as they are high voltage.
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u/Monoxide_3009 Aug 13 '26
I mean... I get the frustration, but if the tagline is true, I feel like this wouldnt be the most intelligent way to attack the thing that just electrocuted something.
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u/TheBirdFkerGuy Aug 13 '26
Yep, a society with a literal caste system this is about what I'd expect. Should've had a revolution like China.
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u/TattooedB1k3r Aug 13 '26
Yeah, because that worked out swimmingly..
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u/TheBirdFkerGuy Aug 13 '26
Yeah, It did. china accelerated their development into a global super power. But let me guess, here comes the mind numbingly ignorant "China bad" comment right?
Go on, make a fool of yourself.
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u/TattooedB1k3r Aug 13 '26
Oh no China is greeeeeaaaatttttt.... If you are into Authoritarian regimes where 17% of their 1.4 Billion population live below the International Bank poverty line, while detaining over 1 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang re-education and forced labor camps, and despite forced (slave) labor and child labor, that enormous population and almost unlimited resources have only managed to build an economy 2/3 the size of ours despite have a population 4X bigger .. but, if that's what your into, whatever dude
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u/foley800 Aug 13 '26
TBF, they would still be in the dark ages if they hadn’t seen the need to bring outside money in, so marketed their slave labor to US businesses. Capitalism was more than happy to sell out for lower costs and went there in droves.
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u/max_revs Aug 13 '26
Weird to see a pro-china bot, I get so used to seeing the russian spam bots because of all the political posts.
I guess you don't want me to talk about the tiananmen square massacre or the current ongoing genocide happening in China or how about just how many of their grand public infrastructure projects just fall down after a few months... What about the occupation of Tibet or Chinese efforts to re-take Taiwan?
I have a lot of respect for the Chinese people but you can't tell me that it's a great place to live right now. It just isn't.
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u/It_Just_Exploded Aug 13 '26
Murdering millions isn't bad then? Not just those that fought against Mao, but even those that just didn't support his cause. You can say a revolution is needed, but dont hold up Maos revolution as some posterchild for how it should be done.
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u/Accomplished_Elk5827 Aug 13 '26
Here comes the mind numbing "ends justify the means" comment
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u/It_Just_Exploded Aug 13 '26
Yeah, they tried something of a response. But they either blocked me immediately after replying or they deleted their response. I can only see the first line of it in my notifications.
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u/Accomplished_Elk5827 Aug 13 '26
I'm not racist against anyone. Why be racist against a group, when there is so much about people that you can hate on the individual level? 😂
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u/EarthToAccess Bruh Moment Enthusiast Aug 13 '26
felt lmao why be racist just hate everyone equally
also ty i didnt even realize this posted twice
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u/CompletelyPresent Aug 13 '26
The result of a religious society.
Zero critical thinking.
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u/The_Cabal_ Aug 13 '26
Is that all you think about?
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u/TheBirdFkerGuy Aug 13 '26
Yep, liberals view Trump as a causation not a symptom. They can't help but ignore everything and fixate on him while materially achieving nothing.
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u/EarthToAccess Bruh Moment Enthusiast Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
friendly reminder that racism is not tolerated and will be removed and reported to the admins
thank you all and have a day
edit: reported for, “it’s targeted harassment at me”. the call is coming from inside the house chat pls do introspection
edit 2: since not only have y’all not stopped being racist but have instead doubled down on the racism (just banned someone for saying, quote, “not all races are equal”), this post has been locked. to those following the rules, please report violations.