iPod shock

By Armando Hernandez on July 11, 2007 4:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

At least two people have been seriously injured when hit by lightning while listening to the iPod.

The first, a Canadian jogger who was wearing his iPod while exercising in the rain, suffered a broken jaw, ruptured ear drums, dislocated ear bones and minor burns when lightning hit a nearby tree and then him.

The second is the case of Jason Bunch, a Colorado teen who was listening to Metallica on his iPod while mowing the grass at his home. According to Bunch, it wasn't even raining when he got struck, but there was a storm brewing in the distance which resulted in him Riding the Lightning (pun shamelessly intended for all of you Metallica fans out there.)

A spokesman for Apple Inc. declined to comment, but the iPod packaging warns against using it in the rain.

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