Anyone care to explain what's going on in this video?

[polar8]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ms4scs52r4&feature=youtu.be

[Psi]

Nope, cant explain it without more info, or time to conduct some tests there.

It could just be fake or could be a leaky 11kV cable i guess.

[SeanB]

Would not be 11kV, more like 132kV cable with rotted away sheath under the road. Should excavate a good hole when it does blow. A 11kV joint can make a 4m deep crater when it lets go.

[Richard Crowley]

I would like to see that repeated during daytime so we can actually see something.
We did hear some significant static-like crackling sound on the audio track when the phone/camera was in a particular spot.

Why do people never get a clue to shoot video on their phones in landscape mode?   

[IanB]

There is a manhole cover in the pavement where he was standing which strongly suggests there is a utility conduit running underneath:

http://goo.gl/maps/PmZQL

[G7PSK]

That man hole cover looks more like a BT one than power network. They have their own designs.

[Shock]

I enjoy magic tricks, on this I call fake because:

He is holding up what looks like a ecigarette vaporizer in his right hand at 0:33, it's passed off by 0:37 when He says "now it's gone" (I believe him) you can see him glance at it as if it was no longer in his possession. The cameraman moves in for the close up then you can see He is not holding it at around 0:46.

There is a frame during 0:51 you can see the electrical arch come from the middle of the buildings eave. If you turn gamma up everything is a lot clearer. The cameraman is not standing anywhere near where it was in the frame but said He was shocked (it was a schoolyard style late response as well). It seems also a big coincidence to be pixel perfectly vertical with the framed shot as well. Should it have caused lens flair or lightened up the scene? It didn't seem to do either.

Even the guys body language is giving visual cues to look at the building, stops to let the cameraman finish then looks again. That arch occurs exactly when they both look. So perfect timing, pan camera, capturing it happening, pan back. Camera man or his phone appears unaffected by the arch we seen even though only He got the shock. We hear the noise both before and after the arch.

[Shock]

But anyway, the vaporizer had statically charged glass or plastic. His hair was long and danced about after it separated from the longer hair in his tied pony tail.

[amyk]

Interesting... might not have been fake:
http://www.businessinsider.com/mysterious-field-of-static-electrical-energy-at-google-in-london-2014-11
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2n0tkq/crazy_static_electricity_beam_next_to_london/cm9yf3n

[IanB]

They seem to be digging up right where the manhole covers were seen in my street view link above.