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Bad Luck: iPod User Gets Struck by iLightning

Posted July 12, 2007 10:10 AM

From Gizmodo:

If you're going to be walking around in a thunderstorm, it might not be a good idea to be wearing an iPod. A 39-year-old dentist from Vancouver had a shocking experience while he was out jogging and listening to his iPod. Lightning struck a tree next to him, and then jumped over to him, throwing him 8 feet and resulting in second degree burns on his chest and left leg. There were also a couple of burns exactly where his iPod wires led up his torso, along either side of his neck and face and then into his ears. Did he live to tell the tale?

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Re: Bad Luck: iPod User Gets Struck by iLightning

07/13/2007 8:00 AM

Who knows, without the iPod he might even be dead.....

Its not particularly clever to go running about outside (especially near trees) when lightning is about......I wonder where he keeps his brain cells when running.....?

Here in Germany, only one private house in 1000 has lightning conductors fitted...... before you ask, although my house is not quite the highest in the village, it is the ONLY one with such conductors fitted....

Which leads me to the old hoary joke:-

"Should lightning conductors get thunderous applause?"

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