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September 16, 2005
MythBusters, please?
Power-dressing man leaves trail of destructionSYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.
When he walked into a building in the country town of Warrnambool in the southern state of Victoria Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet.
Ummm...no.
This really sounds like something Jamie and Adam should look into soon.
Posted by Jesse at September 16, 2005 8:25 PM
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Except for the fact that this was published in a newspaper, I wouldn't have believed it.
Yes, definitely one for mythbusters.
Posted by: Allyson M Dyar at September 16, 2005 10:16 PM