Man Shocked Through Video Game Controller After Lighting Strike

Kotaku ^ | Luke Plunkett

[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

[Red Badger]

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

[George from New England]

“... burns to her hand, and the shock melted the USB connection port on the controller she was using.”

[billorites]

Good thing he wasn’t watching porn.

[kaktuskid]

This is why you get a surge protector

[GingisK]

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.

[fireman15]

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

[moovova]

[bgill]

shocked straight up the wire of his controller.

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

[butlerweave]

Wasn’t that in a James Bond movie ? LOL

[telescope115]

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.

[minnesota_bound]

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

[redcatcherb412]

That’s why you spend the extra money and go wireless.