I hate it when people automatically assume that pits and Rottweilers are automatically TEH EBILS!! Maybe this story will help counteract it.
Agreed. I was surprised to find that many places also have German Shepards on their ebil dogz list.
Back to the OP, awesome, although I found this amusing.
Doctors said his rubber-soled boots prevented the charge going straight through his body and killing him when he was struck on October 17.
WTF? Really doc? First off, it's freaking lightning, it doesn't really care about your rubber boots. Insulators aren't materials that can't conduct electricity, they are just worse at it. Lightning is really powerful and a thin little layer of rubber is nothing to it. Trees aren't normally good conductors either, but it tears right through them. You don't often see arcs of electricity flying from your electrical sockets to random unplugged appliances in your home, but it goes through large gaps of air all the time. And yes, it did go through his body. That's how electricity works. It needs a complete circuit. It doesn't go halfway through his body, see the boots, crap its pants, and shoot back up into the air.
WTF? Really doc? First off, it's freaking lightning, it doesn't really care about your rubber boots. Insulators aren't materials that can't conduct electricity, they are just worse at it. Lightning is really powerful and a thin little layer of rubber is nothing to it. Trees aren't normally good conductors either, but it tears right through them. You don't often see arcs of electricity flying from your electrical sockets to random unplugged appliances in your home, but it goes through large gaps of air all the time. And yes, it did go through his body. That's how electricity works. It needs a complete circuit. It doesn't go halfway through his body, see the boots, crap its pants, and shoot back up into the air.
"Damn it, bone_naga! I'm a doctor, not an electrical engineer!"
And yes, it did go through his body. That's how electricity works. It needs a complete circuit. It doesn't go halfway through his body, see the boots, crap its pants, and shoot back up into the air.
Actually, I think I know what happened, based on a couple things mentioned in the article. First, the article says that he has burn marks on his head and hip. Second is that his dog made the same sound he makes when he hits an electric fence. My guess is that the current shot out of his hip and into his dog, instead of out his feet and into the ground. They shared the amps, though he got the worst of it. I don't think it was necessarily the boots that saved his life, but the dog saving it twice.
Agreed. I was surprised to find that many places also have German Shepards on their ebil dogz list.
To be fair, German Shepherds are very popular among irresponsible dog owners; many people assume they're born trained or something.
There's also the problem of half-breeds.