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iPod saves girl from lightning strike
Posted on Saturday, 20 June, 2009 | 19 comments
A teenage girl sheltering beneath a tree was struck by lightning and saved by her iPod's headphone wires that diverted some of the current from the 300,000-volt strike away from her body and vital organs.
A teenage girl who was struck by lightning may have been saved by her iPod, it emerged today.Sophie Frost and boyfriend Mason Billington, both 14, were sheltering beneath a tree in a storm when the 300,000-volt bolt hit her iPod, knocking them out.But since her headphones were hanging from her school uniform - and not in her ears - the wires diverted some of the current away from her body, avoiding vital organs."
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Recent comments on this story
#15 Posted by lee-uk on 23 June, 2009, 12:24Shelter under a tree, seriously.Darwin award springs to mind.Natural selection has been surpassed. Another dummy slips through the net and lives to pro-create.Yeah, glad she's alive, for now anyway till she does something else daft!!
#16 Posted by :PsYKoTiC:BeHAvIoR: on 23 June, 2009, 21:11"Don't taze me iBro!" ™
#17 Posted by wolemrock on 8 July, 2009, 3:12now i will definitely buy an Ipod, thats enough reason for me to buy one lol.
#18 Posted by yvan on 12 July, 2009, 3:48fluke
#19 Posted by Kacen on 12 July, 2009, 4:59What's frightening about this story is that if she had the earphones in her ears the opposite would be true for this story.
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