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Hubble zots dark spot on Heranus (original title: Lightning exits woman's bottom)
24 Sata via The Australian ^
| October 09, 2006 12:00am
Posted on 10/15/2006 8:13:07 AM PDT by null and void
A WOMAN has suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body.
Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at in her home in the Croatian city of Zadar when lightning struck the building.
She said: "I had just put my mouth under the tap to rinse away the toothpaste when the lightning must have struck the building...
...She was wearing rubber bathroom shoes at the time and so instead of earthing through her feet it appears the electricity shot out of her backside...
..."It appears to have earthed through the damp shower curtain that she was touching as she bent over to put her mouth under the tap.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: brushyourteeth; ouch; zot
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To: null and void
Outch!
Put a bandaid on that.....
21
posted on
10/15/2006 8:32:33 AM PDT
by
Cold Heat
(I just analyze it, I did not create the mess...so go pound sand:-))
To: MotleyGirl70; Cagey; Mr. Brightside
"It was a million to one shot, doc. Million to one."
To: null and void
how did I get on this ping list?
To: the invisib1e hand; null and void
Had the same question. I reckon I been accurately profiled
24
posted on
10/15/2006 8:36:41 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Monthly donor and proud of it! There is NO free lunch! Visualize no Free Republic. Not pretty is it?)
To: patton
> I wonder if she will live. Probably cooked her intestines. <
Not to worry. I think she'll do OK, intestine-wise.
As anybody schooled im matters of RF and AC should be able to tell you, the electric charge almost surely traveled via her skin, rather than having taken a relatively direct, "thru the gut" route.
In any event, the "skin effect" is a phenomenon well-known to physicists and electrical engineers. I believe it was first explained by none other than Lord Kelvin, he of heat fame.
For a technical application of Maxwell's equations to the skin effect, you'll want to check out this reference:
http://fermi.la.asu.edu/w9cf/skin/index.html
25
posted on
10/15/2006 8:47:47 AM PDT
by
Hawthorn
To: Hawthorn
Not messing with that demon.
26
posted on
10/15/2006 8:50:19 AM PDT
by
patton
(Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
To: null and void
I hate it when that happens!
27
posted on
10/15/2006 8:53:39 AM PDT
by
claudiustg
(Iran delenda est.)
To: null and void
Thunder from the throne...
:-P
28
posted on
10/15/2006 8:54:07 AM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: null and void
Thank God she hasn't taken to the recent "pierce everything, especially if it hurts" trend (apparently).
29
posted on
10/15/2006 8:56:09 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(Idiot Muslims. They're just dying to have sex orgies.)
To: null and void
The real story is that she was too cheap to buy Preparation H.
30
posted on
10/15/2006 9:07:05 AM PDT
by
5Madman2
(There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber)
To: null and void
On another note-you know it's going to be a bad day when you wake up with Roids-fumble in the cabinet for various tubes, brush your teeth, and later in the day you have a fresh minty scent when you fart.
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posted on
10/15/2006 9:08:37 AM PDT
by
5Madman2
(There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber)
To: MotleyGirl70
32
posted on
10/15/2006 9:16:06 AM PDT
by
Cagey
To: don-o; the invisib1e hand
You both posted to the original Hubble/Uranus thread. It's a one time list, already destroyed.
33
posted on
10/15/2006 9:16:21 AM PDT
by
null and void
("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
To: Joe 6-pack
34
posted on
10/15/2006 9:23:57 AM PDT
by
sit-rep
( http://trulineint.com/latestposts.asp)
To: streetpreacher
Water in the tap [metal pipes] is already grounded. Very old books on radio modeling recommended using a water pipe as a point of grounding the contraption. Also, when a path of a serious discharge passes through the center of the body [think electric chair] - cardiac arrest, and not the burnt derriere, normally follows. For this reason the posted article is to be suspected of being of tabloidal "Clinton is a space alien" variety. [BTW, both of them ARE space aliens].
35
posted on
10/15/2006 9:26:18 AM PDT
by
GSlob
To: Cagey
Cute website. I was looking through the cat cartoons.
To: null and void
Ouch!!!! Great thread to reference for ZOTS...
To: streetpreacher
I do......
no electricity though.......
38
posted on
10/15/2006 9:38:00 AM PDT
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: GSlob
For this reason the posted article is to be suspected of being of tabloidal Yeah, that and the fact that they said "If she had not been wearing the shoes she would probably have been killed by the blast."
Yeah right, she survived all the current going through her torso, butt would have been killed if it went through her legs...
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posted on
10/15/2006 10:00:28 AM PDT
by
null and void
("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
To: null and void
Yep, the butt would have been killed. It already was burned beyond [?] recognition....
40
posted on
10/15/2006 10:05:26 AM PDT
by
GSlob
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