Ipod Saves Girl's Life

[traceur_]

They sheltered under a tree? How fucking stupid are they?

 

[Disaster Button]

Another reason why the iPod is better than the Zune.

Also, could you imagine if she was wearing the earphones? I so wouldn't want to be the boyfriend then.

 

[Paragon Fury]

I guess god doesn't like iPods

This not a miracle.

This is technology mucking up natural selection again.

This girl should be a Darwin Award winner, not a news headline.

Drawin awards are given to people who die in very stupied ways (like a guy who put alot of helium balloons on a chair, sat on it, flew up and freezed to death)

I know.

You obviously missed the joke.

 

[Rigs83]

I think i is a bit of a stretch to say that the Ipod saved her. If she had stayed out in the rain she wouldn't have been hit but she may have been trying to keep the Ipod dry so she headed for a tree for cover and nearly got killed. Then again maybe she doesn't like getting wet so she would have been hit anyway.

 

[Grassassassin]

Sophie Frost, 14, and her boyfriend Mason Billington, also 14, sheltered under a tree in King George V Playing Field, in Rayleigh, Essex, during a thunder storm on Monday night.

STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS, you do not ever take shelter under a tree in a lightning storm for that very reason!!

This.^

 

[Abedeus]

Maybe I misread it, but wasn't it the Ipod that almost kill her, her only lucky break being that it wasn't hooked up to her ears? And I have to agree with Orannis; hiding under a tree was stupid.

No, I can see how the Ipod (or, more likely, the rubber ear buds) saved her. Much the same as how a car is safe because of the rubber tires, even though most of the rest is metal.

Hmm? That's not why a passenger in a car is safe from lightning strikes -- the rubber doesn't do much to insulate the car. The car acts as a Faraday cage, meaning the static charge travels along the outside of the car. In this case, the headphone wiring is a better conductor than human flesh, but it got extremely hot and probably melted the insulation, causing the burns.

Oh. I'd always thought it was because the rubber wheels grounded it. Oh well, can't be right all the time.

Rubber can't ground nothing, it can't conduct. At all.

Like the person before said, cars simply make thunders go a hundred different ways and if they hit, metal safely conducts the electricity. So don't worry, you can still listen to iCrap during a thunderstorm. You probably won't feel anything if it hits ya. You might be blind and deaf, but alive.

 

[samsonguy920]

Let's see a Zune do THAT

a zune would have electrocuted her long before the lightning storm.

Or even worse, did it a few seconds after the lightning strike missed her. "Phew, that was close!" BZZT x.x

 

[SnowCold]

I guess god doesn't like iPods

This not a miracle.

This is technology mucking up natural selection again.

This girl should be a Darwin Award winner, not a news headline.

Drawin awards are given to people who die in very stupied ways (like a guy who put alot of helium balloons on a chair, sat on it, flew up and freezed to death)

I know.

You obviously missed the joke.

Oh...

OOOOOOOH!

 

[timmytom1]

I feel I have to be the wet blanket and point out that sheltering from a thunderstorm under a tree was phenomenally stupid.

She`s from essex the land very land of the walking retarded here in britan .

 

[XxEagleEyexX]

I can imagine their thoughts...
"hmm it looks like a storm... hey lets go for a date! we can stand under the tree just in case there's lightning!"
They should have just stood with a giant metal pole that said "hey lightning, strike me for extra enjoyment =)

 

[rangerchandller]

I can imagine their thoughts...
"hmm it looks like a storm... hey lets go for a date! we can stand under the tree just in case there's lightning!"
They should have just stood with a giant metal pole that said "hey lightning, strike me for extra enjoyment =)

They most likly also thought that practiseing baton relay was a great idea too....

 

[XxEagleEyexX]

I can imagine their thoughts...
"hmm it looks like a storm... hey lets go for a date! we can stand under the tree just in case there's lightning!"
They should have just stood with a giant metal pole that said "hey lightning, strike me for extra enjoyment =)

They most likly also thought that practiseing baton relay was a great idea too....

True that! But you know, you wouldn't think a little thing like an ipod could attract lightning... I know! Let's burn apple! *evil laugh*

 

[RetiarySword]

THIS IS UP THE ROAD FROM ME!! ESSEX HAS NEWS!! WHEYY!! Sorry but this is a personal victory

!!! SWEYNE PARK SCHOOL!!! I USED TO WORK THERE!! BIGGER VICTORY! I must dance!

 

[headshotcatcher]

sheltered under a tree

Rule NUMBER ONE in thunderstorm safety, dont hide under a fucking tree..

 

[PureChaos]

I feel I have to be the wet blanket and point out that sheltering from a thunderstorm under a tree was phenomenally stupid.

my thoughts exactly

 

[Spektre41]

ITT, people acting like complete and utter pricks.

Honestly, they were in the middle of a thunderstorm and probably freaked out. But of course, this being the Escapist, we get such wonderful comments like "she deserves to die for being stupid".

Who knew the Escapist was simply bursting with pretentious, "I am superior to thee" jackasses?

 

[mikecoulter]

Maybe I misread it, but wasn't it the Ipod that almost kill her, her only lucky break being that it wasn't hooked up to her ears? And I have to agree with Orannis; hiding under a tree was stupid.

Yeah, that's how I see it too... :/