Now ain't that clever

Shocking pictures of a young man "lucky to be alive" after he dangled from overhead rail cables have been issued by transport police.

A passenger took pictures of the man as he hung from the 25,000 volt cables in Tamworth, Staffordshire, earlier this month, and handed them into police.

Pc Rob Newman of British Transport Police said the overheads had been switched off to deal with an incident.

But a residual electric current would still have been running, he said.Pc Newman described the young man's actions as "unbelievable".

He said: "Both him, and another young person watching from the bridge, could have been seriously injured or even killed. He is clearly endangering himself and others."There is no way he could have known the overhead wires had been switched off, as the train was standing at a red signal.