Daily Mail Online – June 19, 2009:
A teenage girl survived a terrifying lightning strike after she was saved by the wire of her iPod.
Schoolgirl Sophie Frost and her boyfriend Mason Billington, both 14, stopped to shelter under a tree when a storm struck as they were walking near their homes.
Doctors believe Sophie survived the 300,000-volt surge only because it travelled through the gadget’s wire, diverting it away from her vital organs.
Both are expected to make a full recovery and Sophie may not even have a permanent scar.
She will be thankful she was wearing her iPod, which she had been given four days earlier as a gift from her grandmother.
Unlikely to have ever occurred.
Do you know that researcher have found that 50% of the “news” is actually produced by corporate marketing departments?
This “news item” is Apple propaganda.
#15
lmao
#17
Path of least resistance man. That tiny wire for that tiny blip in time was less resistant then her body.
#18
Uh… not everyone sees a lot of lightning dude. I have never heard of that. I was always told to get rid of metallic items and make yourself as short as possible without using more then your two feet as support.
Before i went to the east coast i saw lightning happen maybe once every other year… maybe
iPods. Is there anything they can’t do?
har har har. The lightning traveled to WHERE??? What bullshit.
Probably electrical signals from the device probably attracted the Lighting in first place.
Also running CAT5 wires for netwroking running out side is also not good. It doesn’t even take lighting to destroy equipments, just the strong statics will fry routers on both end.
Normal lightning is practically harmless. Just scary as hell. Now if it were positive lighting… That’d be a different story, both kids would have been fried to bits.
Clearly a case for Adam and Jamie.
ipod sales slumping again? This little item should give ‘em a jolt.
And contrary to what noname above says, there’s no physical way that the hair-thin conductors in headphones could take a lightning strike and divert it from her. If anything it was the wire that caused her injuries. Lightning doesn’t travel like normal voltages and uses what is called the “skin effect” to get to the nearest ground. Meaning it travels over the surface of whatever is conducting it at the time, not through it. Anyway, I say it’s a crap story. Maybe the WSJ Jobs rumors didn’t boost aapl shares enough? That paper has lost clout since Murdoch took over.
Memo to Apple: Add “Lightning Rod” to list of iPod uses.
Did she have to send it back to Apple to change the battery?