Cell Phones Blamed for Fatal Lightning Strikes
July 29, 2008
Throughout the month of July alone, lightning has killed and injured more than a dozen people according to Russian officials. Three sunbathers and one woman talking on her cell phone while walking along a river were killed, and a representative from local weather observation FOBOS says he believes that the accidents might be connected to increased use of portable electronic devices. Cell phones and mp3 players are said to be electromagnetic field carriers, therefore making them conductors that would attract lightning.
Shit. Now in addition to going sterile and getting brain cancer, we have to worry about lightning hitting our cell phones.
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