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Lightning punched a religious iPod listener

The New England Journal of Medicine warns: lightning strike damage is much more interesting if a person is wearing a player.

In an article entitled "Thunderstorms and iPods: A Bad Idea," Canadian doctors note that hearing damage due to frequent use of headphones has long been known - but now there is another side effect.
Further, the magazine for the first time tells the medical details of the incident that took place in the summer of 2005. Lightning struck the head of a 37-year-old church musician from Vancouver, who listened to religious music through his iPod, stopping under a tree during a thunderstorm.
An impressive list of injuries includes burns from the chest to the ears, exactly coinciding with the locations of the player, headphones and wires between them. The patient is half hearing, and many bones of the head have also been affected - the lower jaw is displaced and broken in four places.
As the head of the study, radiologist Eric Heffernan notes, most lightning victims would have escaped with minor burns in such a case. This is due to the fact that human skin has a high resistance and does not allow electricity to enter. But in this case, the citizen was wet with sweat (a thunderstorm caught him while jogging), and the combination of sweat and metal objects (headphones) led to the fact that the electrical impulse was sent directly to the victim's head. This is the first recorded case of such inappropriate use of headphones. “We believe the public should be warned,” write Canadian doctors.
In fact, such stories have happened more than once. In 2006, lightning struck a teenager from Colorado, who also listened to the iPod - though Metallica was there, not religious music, notes The Register.
In addition, as already told “Webplanet”, the iPod player can kill old people with pacemakers at a distance of half a meter.

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