Do stun batons really work?

[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.