Dog Enlightened During a Walk in the Park
Submitted By: BizarreNews
Article Date: 01/22/2001
URL: http://www.goofball.com/news/20010122_bizarre
CHICAGO, Illinois - Dogs generally light up when their owner offers to take them for a walk in the park. However, Portia, a 5 year-old black Labrador retriever, was in for quite a shock during her walk with owner Kerry Sorvino. As the 70-pound canine stepped onto a metal plate covering an electrical vault on the sidewalk, it began to convulse uncontrollably as a voltage of electricity surged through its body. Sorvino, not knowing what was wrong, bent over to calm the squealing pooch and was bitten on the hand. A passerby summoned a veterinarian from an animal hospital and he tried to give Portia mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. However, he kept getting a shock from her lips and was unable to save her. City officials said a frayed wire apparently contacted the cover plate set into the sidewalk on Wrightwood near Lincoln and Sheffield. An investigation is being done as to whether other city electrical vaults will be checked.