Saved by my iPod: Girl survives lightning strike after wire diverts 300,000 volts

Daily Mail ^ | 19th June 2009 | Daily Mail

[AngieGal]

[KoRn]

May be of interest.

[exist]

That girl looks EMO. Guarantee you she thinks TWIGHLIGHT was the greatest movie ever.

[KoRn]

"stopped to shelter under a tree when a storm struck as they were walking near their homes."

Do parents teach their children anything these days? When I was a child it was stressed that during a storm, one of the worst places to be is under a tree.

[steveo]

SHOCKING!

But can she sing???

[Mr. Blonde]

In my experience every girl emo or not thinks Twilight is the best thing ever.

[pogo101]

Now that’s what I call REAL “firewire”!

[Costumed Vigilante]

I wonder if she yelled "Rat farts!" just before she was struck.

[Fiddlstix]

Do parents teach their children anything these days? When I was a child it was stressed that during a storm, one of the worst places to be is under a tree.

DITTO THAT!

[rawhide]

Wow! Praise the Lord! What a precious girl.

[Dallas59]

I got a Philips....



I wonder who or what was trying to tell her that Ipod is overrated?

[freedomlover]

Schoolgirl Sophie Frost and her boyfriend Mason Billington, both 14, stopped to shelter under a tree when a storm struck as they were walking near their homes.

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That would be their first mistake.

[BerryDingle]

15 cattle killed by lightning strike. Not near any tree.
Lightning kills 15 head of cattle in Lithia

[pabianice]

This fails electricity 101. No iPod can divert a 300,000V lightening bolt. She was just lucky.

[meyer]

According to pro golfer Lee Travino, who has had some experience with lightning himself, the best thing to do in a lightning storm is to hold up a 1-iron. Why? Because even God can’t hit a 1-iron.

[green pastures]

Conversely, it is suspected that it was the iPod that drew the lightning in the first place...

[RFEngineer]

“This fails electricity 101. No iPod can divert a 300,000V lightening bolt. She was just lucky.”

Actually it doesn’t fail electricity 101. lightning will follow the lowest impedance path. The wire of her Ipod would be lower impedance than her body as the lightning went to ground.

[garyhope]

Ya beat me to it.

I can feel the beginning of a new Apple iPod ad campaign, “Great music, easy to use, stops lightning strikes! Try THAT with a Zune!”

[oldbill]

This shows how technically ignorant the press is.

And they have the nerve to lecture us on global warming and energy.

[B-Chan]

What a cutie-pie. I’m glad she and her boyfriend are going to be OK.