A member of another forum posted an interesting bit about stun gun injuries and i am going to repost it here. If Babcat wants me to remove her post, she just needs to email me. I will paraphrase the information if she does not want to be quoted.
But the post was interesting and - - here it is:
posted by Babcat
Well you guys aren't the only ones who can guffaw.
Remember about a year ago when you all had a good laugh about a conclusion made by "She Who
Must Not Be Named" that the blue line in the photograph between the "stun" marks could be from an
electrical arc? I especially remember Cutter had a HUGE laugh about that (between his Las Vegas odds
theory). I'll have to email this to him.
Well... Guess what?
The other day I saw a show on the Discovery Channel about lightning and this poor bastard who has
actually been struck SEVEN freakin' times! (Maybe some of you saw it too.) Anyhoo... in the course of
the show this doctor is on there talking about how electricity leaves telltale marks on the "victim" of a
lightning strike and it is often in the form of a BLUE LINE running from the sight of the injury! Then he
goes on to say that it is the volts and not the current that causes the marks and often STUN GUNS
(yep... that's what he said) will leave the same blue line between the contacts!!
I am just so glad I never commented on those threads because I had no freakin' idea if that blue line
was a vein or could be from some other reason. When you don't know it is always best to just shut up,
and since I had no experience whatsoever with electricity I figured anything was possible whether it
was probable or not.
Who's laughing now? ME
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