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This could have been a major buzz kill.A drunk straphanger picked a deadly place to grab a seat at the West 4th Street station — right above the third rail — but amazingly avoided electrocution.
Horrified bystanders called 911 when they saw the man sit down and put his head in his hands at 1:50 a.m. Tuesday.
Miraculously, the wasted wanderer wasn’t electrocuted by the rail, which carries more than 600 volts of electricity.
He avoided electric shock because he sat on the rail’s protective cover.
Authorities stopped train service until they could remove the man, who has not been identified, from the tracks.
One witness took a picture of the man as he sat, and posted it online at Reddit. “I snapped this pic from far while police started moving the crowd away,” the photographer wrote.
“In the end they arrested him and I could finally go home after a delay of almost an hour.”
Transit cops took the man to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation, police said.