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Thread ID: 81013 2007-07-12 22:18:00 Heavy Metal Music + iPods Can Kill You SurferJoe46 (51) PC World Chat
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568518 2007-07-12 22:18:00 Intelligent Rules To Follow

RULE 1 ~ Do not jog or drive or rapidly perambulate in any form while wearing sound-blocking devices .

RULE 2 ~ Do not stand on high places, under a lone tree, hold a golf club, wear electronic devices during a lightning storm .


1) An 18-year-old Colorado mowing his lawn wearing his iPod (Violation of RULE #1) while a storm passed in the distance (Violation of RULE #2), happily listening to Metallica (Violation of an uncited, but good RULE anyway) . Lightning hit a nearby tree, veered off, and hit him, rupturing both eardrums and leaving burns that traced his earbud wires down his face and body and culminated in a charred spot on the hip where he carried the iPod .


2) A 39-year-old Vancouver area man who was jogging in a thunderstorm (Read RULE #1 and #2 again) and wearing his iPod; music type unknown . Not only was he burned and deafened, but his jaw was broken in four places from the involuntary muscle contractions .

What have we learned here?


Wearing earbuds when using heavy equipment, operating tools or mechanical devices or undertaking physical training can cause broken bones .
Don't perform body-building or sports activities while in the midst of a lightning storm .
Over-trained jaw muscles are dangerous .
iPods attract lightning
Listening to heavy metal music is dangerous to your ears .
SurferJoe46 (51)
568519 2007-07-12 23:56:00 Hahahaha! Go Heavy Metal!

*Has a mosh in the main street while wearing iPlop in stormy weather revving up a chainsaw*:lol:
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