Man Survives a Lightning Strike, Only to Die When Villagers Cover Him With Cow Shit. In Order to Save Him from the Lightning Strike

Source – A man who survived being struck by lightning has died after he was covered with cow dung to treat his injuries in India.

Binod and Gokula Podh, who lived in Pamara village in the Sundargarh district of Odisha state, had been to the market when they were hit on Sunday evening.

Villagers tried to help the pair by embracing a superstition and putting a heap of the animal dung on Binod’s body, reports Ommcom News.

Instead of helping the stricken man, this suffocated him and within several minutes Binod stopped breathing. It was later reported he died from asphyxiation. …

Mohan Bisoi of Kanjangmandi village said:’ ‘Cow dung and mud paste therapy is an ancestral practice of healing lightning victims.’

Although it was too late to save Binod, the villagers managed to take Gokula to a hospital for proper treatment.

It’s possible that no one in the history of the human race got done dirty as badly as Binod Podh did. This is the very definition of going from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows in a short time span. One minute you’re a certified badass who took a direct hit from God Himself and learned to tell the tale. The next, you’re covered in cow shit, gasping with your last breath for your neighbors to dig you out, while they’re piling on the dung and telling you it’s for your own good. Such a total ripoff for this poor, hapless fella.

When a guy gets to be my age, he starts thinking about how he’d like to shuffle off this mortal coil. It’s not being morbid; just an acknowledgement that the Grim Reaper is still undefeated. We don’t all get to check out while carrying a bunch of crippled children out of a burning orphanage. Way more of us go out the way Elvis did, slumped over toilet with our pants down around our ankles after crapping out a belly full of fried banana and Demerol sandwiches. Personally, my goal has always been to be shot by a jealous husband at the age of 100. But I’ve decided that getting hit by lightning wouldn’t be a bad second option. That way at least your loved ones will take comfort in the knowledge your time was most definitely up.

Well my man Binod did the universe one better. Even if he didn’t walk out of this with a superpower, he was ready to spend the rest of his life impressing chicks in bars with the story of how even a bolt of zizzing, electromagnetic plasma energy five times hotter than the sun couldn’t take him out. “But you’re hot enough to.” There’d be panties hitting the floor from one end of the Odisha state to the next. And then, almost as fast as the lightning itself, he’s drowning under a mound of animal dung, thanks to some idiotic local superstition. Even if he survived the shit pile, his life would hardly have been worth living.

People really do suck. They suck even more than suffocating while covered with cow crap. On behalf of Binod Podh, thanks for nothing, assholes.