[GSlob]

By wearing a chain mail - or, if you are not a reenactor, a metallized or otherwise electroconductive clothing and shoes, and moisturizing your exposed skin with saline solution for the same purpose - your clothing will become your own lightning rod and you will be similarly protected.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

By wearing a chain mail - or, if you are not a reenactor, a metallized or otherwise electroconductive clothing and shoes, and moisturizing your exposed skin with saline solution for the same purpose - your clothing will become your own lightning rod and you will be similarly protected.

Sorry. No dice. If you coat your body with an electrolyte like a saline solution and put on metal bloomers and then take an electrical hit...you are toast.

The only way you are protected is if you are insulated from the chain mail and ARE NOT grounded. If the chain mail IS grounded, the electrical charge will be conducted to ground without you being in the path of the circuit.

Think of the guy sitting in the cage during a large Van de Graff generator display. He is inside a grounded cage. He is insulated from the cage and he himself is not grounded. If he touches the cage...Poof!