This is VERY hard to believe: "Power-dressing man leaves trail of destruction" http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050916/od_nm/australia_electricity_dc;_ylt=A9FJqaXrICtDa.8AUAGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-
From your link, "Firefighters took possession of Clewer's jacket and stored it in the courtyard of the fire station, where it continued to give off a strong electrical current."
Energy crisis solved!
When I took a static damage protection seminar many years ago, I seem to remember that 40,000 volts of static electricity was not really that much. Enough to make you jump if someone touched your ear, but definitely not enough to cause carpets to catch fire.
Maybe the guy is an undiscovered X-man.