No. To charge them, at a minimum, with assault or battery (whichever it is in their jurisdiction that includes a violent physical attack on another person). If the law permits it, I hope they can be charged with attempted murder or attempted manslaughter. It’s not exactly a secret that the third rail is a bit on the dangerous side.
So…let me get this straight. You’re saying that the third rail is…sort of like the third rail of railway tracks?
Would a broken wrist really count as GBH? As Monty points out, as it’s a reasonable assumption that people know contact with the third rail is potentially fatal, attempted murder seems more likely to me.
Might be diffcult to prove an attempt to murder. Easier to prove an intent to cause grievous injury, and that is all that is required regardless of the actual injury.
Also tried, my leg was frozen up to the knee.
I remember Intercity trains using an overhead cabling system instead of a third rail. When did that change?
And only takes one stale knight to gallop in and save the thread from humour. Sir Monty; maybe the SDSAB can help you discover irony…
You win the thread! 
Oh, I appreciate Irony. I just don’t believe your OP is such. You got your tail-end handed to you by a few folks and now you’re cowering under a threadbare tent.
My mistake - my OP was a serious defence of smokers’ rights being upheld by thuggery.
And here I am, ass in hand, quivering in my threadbare tent at the mention of Stetson hats.
Piss off, sailor-boy.
Quite mature comment from you, jerk.
While the OP was funny, far more amusing is the excellent Major Frank Burns impression!
I know, why don’t we all calm down with a nice cigarette and a punch-up? My money’s on the guy with the Cuban cigar and massive hands.
This isn’t the same trains. The third rail system around south London and south-east England is a legacy of the independent pre-British Rail companies. Incidentally, although it’s essentially a suburban network, the Eurostar trains had to be designed to run on these tracks as well as overhead systems.
The irony of this is that it comes only a few days after one of the chiefs of police says that people should be willing to confront people exhibiting anti-social behaviour or breaking the law and not be afraid of doing so.
Yeah but if you add salt before serving it really brings out the sweetness.
People willing to be ''have-a-go-heroes" should all wear distinctive lapel badges so that people can analyse the potential back-up, and determine whether it is too risky. Obviously it’s a little silly for one female to confront two anti-social males, but using my identification system, she could have ignored them until the odds were in her favour, then first opportunity, knocked the shit out of them. Always fight the battles you can win.
p.s. Whatever happened to the “Guardian Angels” in New York? Are they still going?
Thanks.
Could someone please explain where the humor is in the OP? I don’t get it.