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Man Shocked Through Video Game Controller After Lighting Strike
Kotaku ^ | Luke Plunkett

Posted on 08/02/2021 7:34:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A man from Robertson County, Tennessee was playing a video game on Saturday night during a storm when a nearby lightning strike resulted in him being shocked straight up the wire of his controller.

He was able to make the call, and when ambulance crews arrived, they found that he didn’t appear injured, “wanted to be checked out to make sure he was not injured” and didn’t need to be transported to a local hospital.

And while this might sound like a one-in-a-million kind of event, it was just last year that Karma, a pro Rocket League player, was playing a game during a storm, holding a wired video game controller, and the exact same thing happened.

In this case she was even unluckier than the Robertson County man, as Karma actually suffered burns to her hand, and the shock melted the USB connection port on the controller she was using

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: lightning

1 posted on 08/02/2021 7:34:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Game Over................................


2 posted on 08/02/2021 7:36:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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“... burns to her hand, and the shock melted the USB connection port on the controller she was using.”


3 posted on 08/02/2021 7:36:10 AM PDT by George from New England
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Good thing he wasn’t watching porn.


4 posted on 08/02/2021 7:43:29 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: BenLurkin

This is why you get a surge protector


5 posted on 08/02/2021 7:52:39 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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Did you folks know that your computer can be destroyed and you can be shocked by lightning even when everything has been disconnected from the wall socket? Lightning strikes are obscenely high bursts of electric current, which is always accompanied by a proportional magnetic field. That magnetic pulse will induce current flow in any conductor. Speaker coils can deliver hundreds of volts to the computer in response to that magnetic pulse.

The rest hurts.

6 posted on 08/02/2021 7:53:11 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: BenLurkin

https://twitter.com/i/status/1370889626152361986


7 posted on 08/02/2021 8:15:22 AM PDT by fireman15
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8 posted on 08/02/2021 8:22:58 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: BenLurkin
shocked straight up the wire of his controller.

So, that's what they're calling it these days.

9 posted on 08/02/2021 8:23:27 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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Wasn’t that in a James Bond movie ? LOL


10 posted on 08/02/2021 8:26:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Many years ago, my Dad was watching tv when lightning struck a transformer in the pole across the street.
Blew out his tv, microwave, and rang his landline.
Good thing he wasn’t near any of them.


11 posted on 08/02/2021 9:26:12 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: BenLurkin

Someone had a better computer and fired back : )
Zeus may have joined the online game.


12 posted on 08/02/2021 10:17:21 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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That’s why you spend the extra money and go wireless.


13 posted on 08/02/2021 10:21:27 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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