Electical man leaves trail of destruction

Posted on September 20th, 2005 — Filed under News and Science

Wool shirt + nylon jacket = the destructive power of Zeus.

This man built up a 40,000 volt static charge and was probably moments from exploding as he burned the floors he walked upon. Sounds like a super-villain in the making.


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3 Responses to “Electical man leaves trail of destruction”

  1. Anonymous says:
    March 5, 2009 at 1:00 am

    That’s all very interesting, but surely clothing was not responsible for his super-human charge. If that were the case, half the American population would be combusting spontaneously. Where’s the rest of the story? How do “they” explain this phenomenon?

  2. admin says:
    March 5, 2009 at 1:01 am

    Click on the title to see the answer! I think his clothes were a bit of an odd combination… I didn’t know that one could even find nylon jackets these days.

    One of the fire fighters said, “We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited.”

    Firefighters took possession of Clewer’s jacket and stored it in the courtyard of the fire station, where it continued to give off a strong electrical current.

    Strange, no?

  3. Anonymous says:
    March 5, 2009 at 1:02 am

    I’ve made it my new life mission to find a stylish nylon jacket and wool sweater combo, and see how far I have to walk before I can point my finger and shoot lightning bolts.

    Does anyone else hear “Running On Empty”?

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