Tongue piercing = owned

[alehm]

An airport worker, Becky Nyang, 26, was struck by a bolt of lightning when her lip and tongue studs acted as conductors.......

 

[dawdler]

Hehe, such things can happen if one is operate in metal in the body

Its cooler with the dude that has been hit by lighting like 10 times though.

 

[Fat Tony!]

lol its not funny really she could had died

 

[SilentKilla]

Originally posted by Fat Tony!
lol its not funny really she could had died

exactly, i know i wouldnt want lightning to own me.

 

[MrWhite]

Remember the baseball player that died on field being hit with lightning from wearing a metal cup?

Poor guy... and poor little guy

 

[derby]

People will blames piercings but...

...obviously the piercing has a lower resistance than the human body (as it will be made of surgical steel) but it's not the cause of the lightning strike as after the electricy left the piercing it would have had to have travelled through the rest of the body before being earthed. The piercing conducted electricity, but not as a lighning conductor whoch is designed to attract lightning by offereing a low resitance path to ground. No doubt that this person would have been struck with or without the piercing.

I'm not flaming the person who posted the link, just the media who have no grasp of science...

 

[A2597]

what he said.

still, LOL!

 

[LoneDeranger]

Originally posted by derby
People will blames piercings but...

...obviously the piercing has a lower resistance than the human body (as it will be made of surgical steel) but it's not the cause of the lightning strike as after the electricy left the piercing it would have had to have travelled through the rest of the body before being earthed. The piercing conducted electricity, but not as a lighning conductor whoch is designed to attract lightning by offereing a low resitance path to ground. No doubt that this person would have been struck with or without the piercing.

I'm not flaming the person who posted the link, just the media who have no grasp of science...

Thats true, however any metal object on your body will heat to extreme temperatures if you're struck by lightning. So having a 27,000 degree piercing probably burned a nice hole right through her toungue and can definatelly be classified as getting pwned.

Here is a good article, if you're interested:

http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/article.jsp?id=lw675

 

[Zeus]

Glad to see you find someone getting struck by lightning is funny. Let's see how much you laugh when you get struck by lightning.

 

[A2597]

Actually, people struck by lightning usually suffer short term memory loss...

that could be funny in hind sight.

 

[SpaNsK]

it was fun when I read it in the link but my god... when i read all the facts about the 27,000 F and such... poor girl