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Jun 19, 09 - 08:35 am Comment from: TheConfuzed1

Apple can win some great PR, by presenting her with a new one.

Is there no limits to the iPods capabilities???

Thank God for his small tender mercies!!!!

Jun 19, 09 - 08:36 am Comment from: El Guapo

I like how the iPod gets top billing in the headline (boyfriend must be jealous).

for her small tender mercies???

I hope Letterman doesn't use "small tender mercies" in a punchline.

I believe that is now 2 lives saved by iPods ( the other a soldier in Eyeraq). One more miracle and the iPod can be nominated for sainthood!

Wasn't there a lawsuit a couple of months ago, claiming that the iPod was a lightning rod? Better to read stories like this.

Jun 19, 09 - 08:49 am Comment from: HMCIV

Lightning strikes? There's an app for that. On a tragic note, a guy fell off a bridge and drowned when he became tangled in his Zune headphones. The mass pulled him under and the sound quality made him succumb to despair.

Jun 19, 09 - 08:55 am Comment from: HolyMackerel

And the iPod now only plays electro-funk music…

She was definitely using the LightningShield app on her iPod Touch.

Jun 19, 09 - 09:02 am Comment from: thethirdshoe

for it's small tender mercies???

So, when was it ever a good idea to stand under a tree in a thunder and lightening storm?

Parenting fail. This is not news.

f*ck the iPod, she's named Sparky now!!! WHAT A LOL!!!!!

full disclaimer - i own 5 iPods and love them very much. don't f*ck them

ah, but were she not carrying around a metal trinket like an iPod would she have even been struck at all? Physicists discuss...

Jun 19, 09 - 09:20 am Comment from: Zune Tang®

Now I've heard everything. You MAC astroturfers will come up with anything to prop up your tired, derivative, Zune wannabe I-Pods.

What's next? I-Pod settles election dispute in Iran? I-Pod gets IT guy girlfriend? I-Pod now comes in brown, doesn't cost too much and plays WMA files which can be downloaded from Zune Marketplace if you have enough points?

Your potential. Our passion.™

Jun 19, 09 - 09:34 am Comment from: Macintosher

In more recent news, iPod touches have displayed weather forecasts that let people avoid lightning.

Oh, and by the way, because the human body is on its own susceptible to lightning as most of the human body conducts electricity, I believe that the iPod did not cause the strike. It was more likely the Windows Live Tree that shoddily put itself in the wrong place.

Jun 19, 09 - 09:35 am Comment from: McIntosh

Ah, Zune Tang. Like sunshine on a rainy day. When are you going to get your own show or something?

if she had those headphones in her ears, it would have been a very different story

I like how they know it was '3000 volts'.

MJ

Jun 19, 09 - 11:29 am Comment from: Olmecmystic

@Peruchito:

I heard about that happening to some boy in Colorado, I think. Fscked him up pretty good, too.

I think the blessed young lady and Apple fan should expect a personal call from Steve Jobs soon to go to Regent Street and pick up her replacement iPod, on the company.

Kudos to the chivalrous young lad as well. Stay the hell away from a TREE next time, you two!

Peace.
Olmecmystic

P.S. Apparently Poon Tang is jealous cuz M$ is getting no pub this week, what with all the Apple goings on. How now for the wow?

Contrary to rumors, I was NOT hit by lightening.

Jun 19, 09 - 11:44 am Comment from: Gordon Horne

Yep, there was an earlier case in which an iPod was blamed for attracting lightning. Dumbstruck: Lawn-mowing teen struck by lightning, blames Apple iPod

So that's one endangerment and one protection for an even slate for Apple. "Apple: We don't kill you or save you, but for pity's sake don't stand under trees in thunder storms."

Jun 19, 09 - 11:45 am Comment from: TheConfuzed1

Whenever Zune Tang posts an article, if he sees his shadow, it means there will be six more weeks of Microsoft oppression.

Her nan? WTFIT?

I wonder why God didn't want her to have that iPod?

I mean, if he didn't want her harmed he wouldn't have had her hit by the lighting, right?

Perhaps she needed to be taught a lesson. One that required her to almost get killed to learn.

Or maybe she should have bought a Zune. That God certainly does have a sense of humor!

Jun 19, 09 - 12:06 pm Comment from: Greg L

Seeking shelter under a tree during a lightning storm? Couldn’t she find a lighting rod to climb atop?

Jun 19, 09 - 03:18 pm Comment from: GRANDxADMIRAL

No limits = god-like powers = iPod = Apple = God

Bow down nation, lest ye be smited.

What's the story on the guy's eyesight?

Jun 19, 09 - 05:22 pm Comment from: LTD*

iPods:

Is there anything they CAN'T do??

Jun 19, 09 - 05:26 pm Comment from: Mac Daddy

"f*ck the iPod, she's named Sparky now!!! WHAT A LOL!!!!!"

Aw, Sparky's a cute name for a girl!

You artard TheConfuzed1, that is like GM giving away a vehicle because someone hit you. Noob

Steve Jobs works in mysterious ways...

Jun 19, 09 - 09:29 pm Comment from: grh

@GRANDxADMIRAL

"smighted" = smote

Besides, scraping the bottom of the news barrel, aren't we?

Jun 19, 09 - 10:37 pm Comment from: KingMel

If lightning is going to strike in your area, then it will strike whether or not you are carrying an iPod. Sitting under a tree (or even holding onto a metal lawnmower) is more likely to make you a target of lightning that wearing an iPod.

If lightning does strike you, however, then it seems reasonable that the earbud wires and the metal case of the iPod could channel some of that energy, heat up and cause burns (which might very well be the least of your troubles at that point). Of course, so could a cell phone, car keys in your pocket, jewelry, or a belt buckle.

I recommend avoiding being struck by lightning.

Jun 20, 09 - 07:34 am Comment from: Wingsy

A 3,000 volt piece of lightning isn't going very far. That would barely jump a gap of a few millimeters.

Now if they said 50,000,000 volts, that would be more like it. Anyway, who was there to measure it?

You’re almost right about that Wingsy. Back in high school i built a Tesla coil with an output of 900,000 volts, and it could only produce a spark gap of about 3-4 inches (10 cm). Lightning is easily in the billions of volts range (or for the Brits: thousands of millions), or more.

wow. there really is an app for everything

Jun 22, 09 - 03:02 am Comment from: twilightmoon

jake,

I was thinking exactly the same thing! lol