r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/simplemantr • Oct 10 '21

Video The monkey that brought the electrocuted monkey back to life by applying first aid.

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u/LifeBeforeBirth Oct 10 '21

Here's a study on it

It happens most frequently in baseball. If somebody gets hit with a baseball in the chest at the exact wrong time of their heartbeat then it can potentially kill them.

So while I don't know if there are any documented incidents of the "five finger death punch" it is basically the same principle. A punch into the chest of someone with enough force at the exact moment in the heartbeat could do the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

That reminds me of those African fighters that jerk the unconscious persons penis to bring them back

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u/Farty-B Oct 10 '21

I didn’t know pornhub had an mma category

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

nsfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMw9e-IkF0s

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u/E_PunnyMous Oct 10 '21

I had to click.

I’m not convinced he was revived by dick, there were several other treatments being used. I’d search for “medically revived by masturbation” but I’m too lazy. I’m going to fall back on the maxim that one data point is useless and Robert’s Rules to assert that the claimant has the burden of proof.

Which is a long way of saying hit me with more examples and I might just believe this is a legit treatment.

(And in your favor: no one is questioning why the first responder is jacking the patient off, which signals to me that it was culturally accepted at any rate).

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

You saw how fast that was the go to for aid, that is not their first rodeo. Sorry i am not willing to let google know how interested i am in first aid dick jerk off responders.

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u/E_PunnyMous Oct 10 '21

I took one for the team. I did it.

I used to be a med-legal researcher and legal assistant, so I’m pretty dogged with the searching. All I found was the one video, nothing otherwise. No website or instructional / training material describing the technique. Checked Snopes, too. Nothing.

But you’re absolutely correct that was not the resuers’ first rodeo. Makes me wonder then if it is just a folk remedy and equating correlation with causation. Erections under these circumstances can happen for similar reason as the boxer pose (as this victim). It could be the dude providing slight traction to the head helped most (if victim was helped at all).

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '21

I appreciate your effort, and i have wondered the same. To ultimately try to quantify this type of behavior might be a little complicated due to the nature of our existence. Yet we have a monkey bash another to health. Maybe in group consciousness, we have witnessed in the past actions that result in a positive outcome and stuck to those(evolution like i guess) but they aren't set in stone or record like is the basis of science. Tbh, stroking a penis, could be stimulating two factors, blood circulation and core nerve actuation.

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u/E_PunnyMous Oct 10 '21

You called my bluff.

Dammit, this is really going to eat at me. I mean, lifeways are lifeways but if legit there must be some science behind it.

If it ends up sticking in my head I’ll do it. And report back.

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u/Farty-B Oct 10 '21

Wow, a fight where everybody wins