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The Unsettler
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Stupid idiots
Local news just had a story on about a guy that got hit by lightning today.
I look up as they cut to the guy, 20 ish with a big friggin earing in each ear, pierced nose, pierced lip, pierced cheek. Well DUHH, if you've got a friggin pound of metal hanging out of your face DON"T GO OUT IN A THUNDER STORM YOU MORON!
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07-29-2007, 08:06 PM
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Sorry,
Mods please move. Was cruising OT so have no idea how I got here.
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07-29-2007, 08:08 PM
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LOL, perfect title for your post here in Tech!
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07-29-2007, 08:09 PM
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07-29-2007, 10:04 PM
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JUst being a little picky, but would the metal really make a difference? I can appreciate that if it was in direct contact with the ground it may do, but surely just a metalic object in isolation wouldn't have a huge effect.
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Nice to see Mother Nature starting to take matters into her own hands.
Unfortunately she's about 20 million other idiots behind the curve.
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07-30-2007, 05:59 AM
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The Unsettler
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07-30-2007, 06:30 AM
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Zapped?
They forgot to mention that he had studs down the back of his Achilles tendon to some spikes under his shoes. Perfect ground. I wonder if he Flashed like a moth in a bug zapper!
 Bob
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07-30-2007, 07:57 AM
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Actually, the TV show Myth Busters did an episode on this question... turns out that, in the lab at least, you need to have something larger than a doorknob in your face for lightning to show any preference.
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