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- From: dchouina@sobeco.com (Daniel Chouinard)
- Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
- Organization: Sobeco Ernst & Young
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 18:00:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.180000.15888@sobeco.com>
- References: <1992Jul18.175339.10396@newstand.syr.edu> <1992Jul22.055148.8779@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au>
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- In <1992Jul22.055148.8779@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au> johnh@macadammq.edu.au (John Haddy) writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul18.175339.10396@newstand.syr.edu>, feliccia@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Nicholas J Feliccia) writes:
- >|> ..
- >|>
- >|> Ok. I want to know from the net people. What is the largest voltage shock
- >|> you have ever received (and survived.) I am not talking about rewiring
- >|> a light switch. I am talking about kissing the flyback transformer.
- >|>
- >|> Nick.
- >|> -------------------------------------------------------------------
- >|> feliccia@rodan.acs.syr.edu
- >|> N3FKS
- >|>
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- >Perhaps one shouldn't be bragging - it might prompt some bozo out there to try
- >and better the "record". Surely the largest shock _anyone_ has ever received
- >is already documented in the Guiness book of records: those few (extremely lucky)
- >people who have been hit by lightning and survived.
- >[:.,$d]
-
- My ex-girlfriend is one of those. Sitting in her appartment, watching TV,
- she saw a thin "blueness" cross the room to her tv and BOOM! She woke up
- 2 or 3 hours later, throwing up. Her left hand was burnt 2nd degree and
- all electronic equipment blown. She was in bed for 2 weeks after that.
-
- Personnaly, it almost happened to me too. I clearly rememeber the after-
- image of the bolt, approx. 5 meters/yards in front of me, the odor of ozone
- and the tingling sensation that all my legs and arms hair stood up, the
- temporary deafness and blindness.
-
- We get magnificient July lightning storms up here in Montreal.
-
- dchouina@sobeco.com
-