One step shy of spontaneous combustion.....

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Power-dressing Aussie leaves trail of destruction Friday September 16, 08:36 AM

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.

Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woollen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was building up as his clothes rubbed together.

When he walked into a building in the country town of Warrnambool in the southern state Advertisement of Victoria on Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet.

"It sounded almost like a firecracker", Clewer told Australian radio on Friday.

"Within about five minutes, the carpet started to erupt."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16092005/80/power-dressing-aussie-leaves-trail-destruction.html


MAYBE hot-headed Oz cricket fan, still fuming about the Ashes in London.....

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1. Chuapacabras foiled again!

Must be the electricity in the air...