Lightning strike zaps PS2 player

Boy in New Hampshire gets electrocuted when lightning strike passes through TV, PS2 controller.
Some may say the violent gameplay of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto III is shocking. David Robinson, a 14-year-old boy from New Hampshire, knows better than most. While playing the game in the basement of his home during an electrical storm, lightning passed through his television and shocked Robinson through his PlayStation 2 controller. "I was worried my PlayStation was broken," Robinson told NH newspaper Foster's Daily Democrat. Remarkably, Robinson was not seriously injured. The controller, however, was fried.
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Hahahahahhaha G-I-M-P "I was worried my PlayStation was broken,"

That's news. "Electricity passes through electrical equipment". If someone is stupid enough to use a TV or PC in a thunderstorm they deserve to have their stuff fried.

Is that true, cause it's funny as hell.

What? Seriously?

Gotta plug in all my shit when it starts thundering then

I love 'leccy

If someone is stupid enough to use a TV or PC in a thunderstorm they deserve to have their stuff fried.

Meta_Ridley your a crazy person!!!

Last thing you want is all your 'lectric possesions fried during a storm.

Now see, if he'd have been playing a GameCube at the time instead.......

ahem...... Always unplug your valuables during Storms

Bollocks!

I just like blue sparks. Metal objects in microwaves, consoles making funny noises, different cables and wires connecting to things they shouldn't be connecting to. It's all good.

If it gets fried, well, it needed a bigger fuse.

Funny. Love storms though, we need one.

I blew 3 computers last year while i was at college i put 240Volts thru 2 of them!!!
And then the smoke came out the back of the PC!!! And it smelled lovely burned wires!!!

Nintendo_Maniac wrote: I blew 3 computers last year while i was at college i put 240Volts thru 2 of them!!!
And then the smoke came out the back of the PC!!! And it smelled lovely burned wires!!!

0/\0

Pyromaniacs. Except by using the blue stuff, we endanger ourselves and others and every electrical component in the vincinity at the same time

Have either of you ever put a cd in the microwave?
Hehe...

Isn't the kid a zombie now?

Boy in New Hampshire gets electrocuted...

Dictionary.com

1. To kill with electricity: a worker who was electrocuted by a high-tension wire.
2. To execute (a condemned prisoner) by means of electricity.

Zombie...that explains the sony fanboys!

< Edited by TAG on 2005/7/4 21:06 >

I never put a CD on a microwave but ive seen on the internet or Braniac im not sure but it looked cool and it went all weird and it got fuked!!! lol but i have put a boiled egg on a microwave hahahahha go and boil an egg and put it in ur microwave ahhahahaha
if your not going to do it, then ill tell you what happenes, boil and egg put it in the microwave wait for about 20 seconds and the egg blows up and it makes a really loud moise and ur microwave will be blasted in egg then tell ur mum to clean it!!!!

This is why we need wireless controllers as standard.

< Edited by msenyszak on 2005/7/5 19:52 >

shocked Robinson through his PlayStation 2 controller

How did he get struck if he was playing in his basement? Wouldn't that mean all of his house was hit or something?

By the way brainiac is such a cool show! I love it (well, I should say loved because I don't have sky anymore ). Dr Bunhead is a legend.

CD's in the microwave makes cool lightning and soap (this is the best) expands really quickly and covers all the area in the microwave but when you switch it off it condenses again! Well, apparently anyway. This has turned into a 'put stuff in your microwave' thread, has it not?

Erotic_Spider wrote:

shocked Robinson through his PlayStation 2 controller

yes but arent the electrical components in the ps2 controller encased in plastic which I beleive doesnt conduct electricity. At the most its just the plastic which would been heated up and possibly burnt the guy's hands.

well no.. pretty much anything will conduct electricity if you pump enough energy at it, to my understanding (beam?) - a lightning strike might well be able to make it though the relatively thin plastic casing of a ps2 controller.

It can't if its double insulated.

exactly what GR said if electricity is powerful enough it doesnt matter if you have plastic or rubber it weill still shock you!
As most of you know that Thunder storms conduct about 10.000-50.000 Watts of electricity (correct me if im wrong!)
It doesnt matter if your underground, if your wall plug conducts electricity it will still struck you if there is a thunder storm outside!

Well, if you are levitating in a rubber ball with 2 lightining rods a distance of 2 metres away from you each. I'm sure you wont be hit.

OK maybe you wont??? But we were talking about a guy that was connected to the floor! And if you a rubber ball floating if you touch just once of the rods the other rod will go off and then constant electricity, then the rubber burned, BBQ sauce anyone!!!