Do stun batons really work?

[RoadRaven]

OK... why is it always that stories like this one feature males?

You don't hear often (or at all) about females being convinced to pee on electric fences or put 9volt batteries on their tongues...
So I knew how this story would end before I read - but of course I had to read it.
Thanks for the laugh, BC

But I seriously thought everyone learned in school, basic science classes but also health classes, that electricity makes the muscles clench. I remember being told that if I see someone being electrucuted, I must not grab any part of their body to move them. If for example, they were holding something, I must swing my arm onto their arm, or hold something and whack it onto their arm, to dislodge their hold. I amy break their arm in the process, but will probably save their life.

In that light, yes Starfish, I think if you tasered a cougar it could very well get you. You might get less of a shock if the cougar was underneath you, because electricty always wants to ground itself - so be sure next time you are attacked by a cougar, make sure it is lying on its back, and you are above it and no part of you is touching the ground BEFORE you taser it!

[mimitabby]

and back to the cougar, remember, he's hairy you'd better taser his nose!

further, there were two little boys somewhere in the USA who managed to get their tongues stuck to a telephone pole this January..

[Zen]

I stuck my tongue to the merry-go-round metal.
I was just trying to lick off snow. just went a little too far

[KnottedYet]

and back to the cougar, remember, he's hairy you'd better taser his nose!

further, there were two little boys somewhere in the USA who managed to get their tongues stuck to a telephone pole this January..

My son's friend did that. He bled horribly.

[Jolt]

OK... why is it always that stories like this one feature males?

You don't hear often (or at all) about females being convinced to pee on electric fences or put 9volt batteries on their tongues...
So I knew how this story would end before I read - but of course I had to read it.
Thanks for the laugh, BC

But I seriously thought everyone learned in school, basic science classes but also health classes, that electricity makes the muscles clench. I remember being told that if I see someone being electrucuted, I must not grab any part of their body to move them. If for example, they were holding something, I must swing my arm onto their arm, or hold something and whack it onto their arm, to dislodge their hold. I amy break their arm in the process, but will probably save their life.

In that light, yes Starfish, I think if you tasered a cougar it could very well get you. You might get less of a shock if the cougar was underneath you, because electricty always wants to ground itself - so be sure next time you are attacked by a cougar, make sure it is lying on its back, and you are above it and no part of you is touching the ground BEFORE you taser it!

In answer to the first part of your post, I think we females tend to have ever so slightly more common sense than our male counterparts... As for dislodging someone from a source of current, you are correct that grabbing the person is a very bad idea. You also wouldn't want to directly touch them or use a conductive object (like a metal mop handle etc.) to shove them away--then you'd get zapped too. Ouch.

[PscyclePath]

OK... why is it always that stories like this one feature males?

You don't hear often (or at all) about females being convinced to pee on electric fences or put 9volt batteries on their tongues...
So I knew how this story would end before I read - but of course I had to read it.

That's because you guys...

1) typically have better sense,
2) tend both to read and trust the instructions that come with such devices, and
3) learn something from your experiences, or at least remember something about them the next time you're confronted with such a circumstance.

And yes, I've done all the stuff RoadRaven mentioned, which isn't to say that I might not try it again the next time just to see if it still really works that way.

Tom

[RoadRaven]

And yes, I've done all the stuff RoadRaven mentioned, which isn't to say that I might not try it again the next time just to see if it still really works that way.

LOL Tom
Too funny
This reminds me of one of my sons who, as a toddler, would leap off the arm of a couch just assuming we would know and would catch him.
As he got bigger he would do the same in trees - launch himself at us without letting us know.
When trees were close to each other he would do the squirrel thing and leap from branch to branch - but wasn't always successful. But instead of looking for a different branch to leap from or to, or waiting til he was older and taller, he'd just climb right on up and try again... and again...

[snapdragen]

You don't hear often (or at all) about females being convinced to pee on electric fences or put 9volt batteries on their tongues...

I've done the nine volt battery thing...

//I'm using the sibling peer pressure excuse

[Jolt]

Speaking of people doing stupid things involving electricity, this one takes the cake...
http://blogs.chron.com/medblog/archi...ng_stupid.html

[Jolt]

And here's another one...
http://www.darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid2005-03.html
I'm not sure who was the bigger idiot in this one--the guy who said "juice me up" or the one who actually DID it!!

[FelesRidet]

Better for the cougar is pepper spray. You can get different strengths. The cops carry something pretty strong -- I think stronger than what you might find in a store. We watch a cop spray two massive Russian sheepdogs that were tearing apart a sheep. He jumped the fence, walked right up to them, and blasted one, then the other in the eyes. It was so much more effective than the rocks/wrist sling shot we were using!! (sheep ok, dogs picked up by animal control)

[Zen]

Dave's last words were "Hey, watch this!"