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Lightning Strikes Teenager Listening To iPod


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#1 OFFLINE   Humpty

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Posted 09 July 2006 - 05:41 AM

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Jason Bunch was mowing the lawn and listening to his iPod at his home in Castle Rock in the 3200 block of Cherry Plum Way on Sunday when he was struck.

He was taken to the hospital and was then put into the intensive care unit. Bunch recovered and was released from the hospital.

"I woke up and blood was coming out my ears," Bunch, a Douglas County High School senior, said.

Bunch has large scars on his feet and smaller burn marks on his hands.

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Posted 09 July 2006 - 09:58 AM

Ya, cellphones are evil.
Nowadays everybody have them, and constantly talk in them all the time, all the day, everywhere...



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Posted 09 July 2006 - 11:28 AM

lol, i pissed out laughing when i read that.

thanks for the warning. it is stupid to keep mowing your lawn in bad weather!

how did that malaysian citizen get struck in 1999. ipod werent even released back then.

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Posted 09 July 2006 - 07:50 PM

View PostPS3, on Jul 9 2006, 06:28 AM, said:

how did that malaysian citizen get struck in 1999. ipod werent even released back then.

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There were other similar cases in Malaysia in 1999, South Korea in 2004 and China in 2005. The people died in all three cases. The authors said there were no previous reports in medical journals.

"All these events resulted in death after the people were struck by lightning while using their mobile phones outdoors during storms," they wrote.

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Posted 09 July 2006 - 08:12 PM

It traveled down the earbuds was all. Duh. He was mowing the lawn. In other words he's sitting ona fairly large hunk of metal. Gee, wonder why he got struck. :rolleyes:

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Posted 09 July 2006 - 11:25 PM

View PostTarun, on Jul 9 2006, 09:12 PM, said:

It traveled down the earbuds was all. Duh. He was mowing the lawn. In other words he's sitting ona fairly large hunk of metal. Gee, wonder why he got struck. :rolleyes:
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Posted 10 July 2006 - 12:53 AM

Earbuds, earplugs. Whatever you call those wannabe headphones.