Originally posted by: DrPizza
???wtf??! That's 2 articles on Yahoo news that were utter bullsh!t.
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.
Yeah, right. I use a van de graaf generator in my physics class and routinely generate 100,000 to 200,000 volts. I have *never* seen anything spontaneously combust. I'd go on to debunk almost every statement of that article, but *sigh*, not in a repost.