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Getting shocked by an electrified manhole isn't just for the winter: Yesterday morning, a Labrador retriever suffered a jolt when he stepped onto a wet manhole cover on Thompson Street.
The Daily News reports that John Doran had been walking his 11-year-old dog Socha. When the dog stepped into a puddle, she "Socha let out a series of blood-curdling yelps - and collapsed near the curb." From the News:
"I never heard a noise come out of her like that before," Doran said. "She was screaming and yelling and fell on her side."Totally - and lots of kids weigh less than 80 pounds. It took "three 911 calls and over two hours before authorities showed up at the scene and started investigating." Con Ed said that a cable had been touching the manhole AND that a previous inspection two months ago had shown the area to be safe. Hmm, have any people noticed Con Ed's livery-cab site safety crews in the area? At any rate, Socha was luckily eventually deemed "no worse for wear."The cuddly 80-pound dog lay stiff in the water until a panicked Doran pulled her out. "I was freaking out, trying to get her out," he said. "She was stiff like a dead weight."
As a good Samaritan dialed 911, Doran frantically warned neighbors about the danger lurking beneath their feet.
"I turned into a crazy New Yorker, shouting, 'No, don't go in there,'" he recalled. "I was afraid for them. ... There are kids around here."
In February, a dog died from an electrocution and another was shocked but saved by dog CPR.
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seems that we could solve the whole guantanamo bay debacle if we schlepped all those poor souls here to NYC, and let them walk around in the rain.
I wonder if dogs wouldn't be better off if they wear those rubber-soled booties all the time, to help ward off shocks.
She wasn't electrocuted -- she was shocked and lived to wag the tail. No person or thing has ever, in the whole of history, been electrocuted.
LIVING! No living person or thing. Sorry.
Ah, Bob- thanks for the reminder.
Michael Vick must have had his hands on that manhole...
C-O-N-E-D
Canines Only Need Electrocution Death!!!
one cannot be "electrocuted" without dying... merely badly shocked...
The idea of creating an acronym there was good, but the execution was poor.
Does that picture look like a lolcat to anyone else?
What is a 'crazy New Yorker?'
I will just keep saying it:
It's time to bring negligent criminal charges in a Federal Courthouse against Con Edison.
This nonsense with dogs, people, steam pipes and extended power outages has got to stop. It's just plain delinquent.
I wish commenter #3 and #9 could be electrocuted.
"It's time to bring negligent criminal charges in a Federal Courthouse against Con Edison ... It's just plain delinquent."
No, you said it right the first time: It's criminal.
Somehow, if I had - intentionally or not - caused some poor dog, or human, to be electrocuted, the cops would toss me in jail - and rightly so.
I'm glad the dog is "OK," but trauma like that never goes away.
Con Ed should be thankful that wasn't my dog.. or they really would have seen a CRAZY NEW YORKER.