iPod: Rock You Like a Hurricane, or Something Like One.
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So some dude decides that a quick run through a field during a massive thunderstorm was a good idea. He probably would have been alright except he decided to pack-a-long a lightning rod in the form of an iPod. Guess what? BLAM-O! Even worse was how his headphones conducted all that electricity to his head, cooking his skull like an egg in a microwave oven. Luckily, he survived, but life can’t be too fun:
The 37-year-old man was brought to a Vancouver hospital with burns, blown-out eardrums and a fractured lower jaw after lightning hit a nearby tree and hurled him eight feet into the air, according to eyewitness reports.The burns along the man’s chest and neck leading to his ear injuries also corresponded “to the positions of his [iPod] earphones at the time of the lightning strike,” his physicians said.
The good news is that I hear the iPhone is actually a lightning deterrent.
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