iPod saved my life
THE LATEST MIRACLE attributed to the patron saint of Apple, Steve Jobs, is to ward off lightning.
According to The Current Bun [is that a pun? - Ed] the teenage girl suffered burns when a lightning bolt was diverted through her Ipod as she sheltered from a storm.
Sophie Frost, 14, and her bloke Mason Billington, 14, were romantically sheltered under a tree in King George V Playing Field, in Rayleigh, Essex, during a thunder storm.
The tree was struck by lightning and Sophie passed out as the current travelled through her Ipod headphones, which were hanging from her school uniform, burning her chest and stomach.
Her bloke Mason was blinded by the bolt but he put Sophie over his shoulder and carried her to find help. That is love for you.
Sophie, who received burns to her neck, chest and leg, is now being treated at Broomfield Hospital, in Chelmsford, while Mason remains at Southend Hospital.
Doctors told her mum, Julie, that if Sophie had not been wearing her Ipod she would have been toast.
The fruit themed MP3 player apparently took most of the load and earthed it.
Government Health Warning: People should be cautious about placing too much faith in the power of Steve Jobs to ward off lightning. There have been a couple of cases where the lightning has been attracted to the shiny gizmo. God has also been known to strike people down for being too smug. µ
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That ipod owners spend too much time being smug and listening to their beloved fruity music player and not enough time learning, it's common sense that sheltering under a tree in a thunder storm is a bad idea.
Obviously not common enough!
If the iPod was not there, the probability of lightning striking them was small. The iPod only attracts the lightning and toasting those kids.
Are the kids looking for a June Tree?
Isn't the moral of the story DON'T STAND UNDER A TREE DURING A THUNDERSTORM?
The body WILL protect you from being hit by lightning, provided that you are not wearing ANYTHING conductive at all. If struck, lightning will simply follow your outside of your skin to the ground and not "enter" your body. It's when you start wearing things like rings and other jewelry, underwire bras, etc. that you start getting electrocuted and bad burns. Your skin is a terrible conductor.
Please note that her bloke was only temporarily blinded and nothing else. Further note that he did NOT have and iPlod. Maybe it is as Nick said, "God has also been known to strike people down for being too smug." But fortunately he (she?) missed, though I am happy about that.
the Mad Winemaker
"The fruit themed MP3 player apparently took most of the load and earthed it."
May be because apple devices consume too much enery that is why it eate up the Lightning...
Just Kidding, in fact, the more hungry power, the iPhone has a more lasting battery that the black berry I use for my work.
And regarding "...and not enough time learning" Most of the universities post they classes on iTunes, so people with iPods are the most educated people.
A majority of universities post their classes on iTunes...
Having just graduated from a big 10 university with a degree in Chemistry and keeping up with what happens at other major universities for research purposes I can tell you that is absolutely wrong...
A professors at A college posts A class and it becomes another verse in the Steve Jobs gospel
The iPod is what ATTRACTED the lightning.
The iPod is NOT grounded (earthed, for you brits).
The iPod is what nearly got her killed.
Who Ed? He never read INQ before? He surprised by INQisms?