Kid Hit By Lightning Through Game Controller

[mcs328]

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/4670416/detail.html

N.H. Boy Hit By Lightning Through Video Game Controls
Teen Expected To Recover

POSTED: 11:58 am EDT June 30, 2005

MIDDLETON, N.H. -- A 14-year-old boy was injured Wednesday afternoon when lightning traveled through a television set and a video game controller the boy was holding in Middleton.

A family member said David Robinson became disoriented and was taken to a hospital, but is expected to recover.
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<sarcasm> See...games cause violence and act as natural lightning rod. Ban all games or DIE!!!!<sarcasm>

Anyways...weird right?

[Gothic Girl]

Damn. That's gotta suck.

[zenbooty]

Guess the folks never told him to shut off the TVs and computers during a thunderstorm.

[Nija]

Guess the folks never told him to shut off the TVs and computers during a thunderstorm.
I've honestly never heard that. Of course it could have something to do with the fact I've never knowingly been in a lightning storm (thunderstorms are loud, lightning storms are bright AND loud :P)

[Thesifer]

I had lightning Strike my computer when I was on it once.. but It didnt hurt me .. just killed my powersupply.. and I saw this really cool Ball of Light.. I was hoping I would gain something from it like ESP.. or something.. but .. no such luck.

Guess video games arent for the "rainy days" anymore

[LPMiller]

wireless.

[DarkFury]

Now THAT's what I call a "rumble pack".


IT'S IN THE GAME!!! :eek:

[Burzhui]

Now THAT's what I call a "rumble pack".


IT'S IN THE GAME!!! :eek:


EA Sports

[bachviet]

Damn that really sucks. He didn't need shock feedback controller.

[zenbooty]

I've honestly never heard that. Of course it could have something to do with the fact I've never knowingly been in a lightning storm (thunderstorms are loud, lightning storms are bright AND loud :P)You live in SoCal, right? Where people flee to their basements when it storms because they've never heard thunder or seen lightning before :D?

Yeah, my Dad used to hammer that home when I was a kid. Not that I pay it much mind now, though :laugh:. It storms pretty good in the late Summer in New England.

[speedracer120]

You live in SoCal, right? Where people flee to their basements when it storms because they've never heard thunder or seen lightning before :D?

Yeah, my Dad used to hammer that home when I was a kid. Not that I pay it much mind now, though :laugh:. It storms pretty good in the late Summer in New England.

You obviously never been to SoCal, cause half the people here wouldn't know what a basement actually looks like.

[Nija]

You obviously never been to SoCal, cause half the people here wouldn't know what a basement actually looks like.
:stupid:

I've only seen 1 household basement in my life. It was my mom's boyfriends' brothers home in Oregon.

[zero2dash]

Gamespot reported that the kid was worried his Ps2 would be broken.
Oh, so I see how it goes...
"I'm more worried about my Ps2 being broken than I am of me being dead."

What an idiot. :stupid:

[DarkFury]

Gamespot reported that the kid was worried his Ps2 would be broken.
Oh, so I see how it goes...
"I'm more worried about my Ps2 being broken than I am of me being dead."

What an idiot. :stupid:
C'mon zero... it's a kid.

Kids don't think about dying... Hell... when I was a kid, my cousin and I were playing football outside during a light "rain shower"... next thing we know a big bolt of lightning strikes the tree right above us... and we run like hell into the house.

Afterwards... it was pretty funny, but during, it was scary as hell.

[riskykougra]

Ya teenagers think they are indestructable. So you can tell them a hundred times not to play games or watch t.v. in a thunder storm and they wont listen. I remember when I was younger my aunt was in the shower and the lightening travelled through the pipes and hit her in the back of the head. She was OK but she had one hell of a headache for a few days. :eek3:

[Markel]

You obviously never been to SoCal, cause half the people here wouldn't know what a basement actually looks like.
The house in Pasadena where we lived had one. So did many of the homes I remember.

[speedracer120]

Well Pasadena and certain neighborhoods are well over a hundred years old, before the white folk realized the earth moved under their feet and decided not to build multistory wooden buildings.