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[Real Reality]

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. Clewer, who after leaving the building discovered he had scorched a piece of plastic on the floor of his car, returned to seek help from the firefighters.

"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," Barton said.

"I've been firefighting for over 35 years and I've never come across anything like this," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050916/od_nm/australia_electricity_dc

[rapier]

I bet the chicks found him magnetically attractive.

[some waygug-in]

Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woolen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was building up as his clothes rubbed together.

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.



A new energy source perhaps? Hmmm.

[Clutch Cargo]

Did the police charge him with anything?
It must have been quite a shock.

[Leslie Cheswyck]