Shocking! Electrifying! This guy is on fire!!

[Roland99]

Power-dressing man leaves trail of destruction
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050916/od_nm/australia_electricity_dc;_ylt=A86.I0nf5CpDM_gAIxUDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

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 woolen 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 of Victoria Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet.

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"We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited," Barton said.

:wow:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. That is cool!!

[Pithlet]

2. Wow

[Roland99]

3. HA! Great smiley...perfect for this story!

[Pithlet]

4. And I never thought I'd have occasion to use it.

It was one of those smilies I snagged because I liked it.

The story really is amazing.

[WCGreen]

5. I am shocked and amazed.....

[Hugin]

6. And people still wonder why corduroy pants went out the first time...

They're baaaack!

LOL!