| Re: Mobilephones a risk in a storm
You are correct.
This is absolute garbage. Electricity always seeks the path of least resistance to return to earth. Holding a mobile phone, or any other object, would not increase this unless the phone was earthed seperately and then touched by the user. A phone held in the hand is only as earthed as the person holding it
Chances are that someone sheltered under a tree whilst using a phone and got struck, and 'scientists' put 2 plus 2 together.
Its about the same risk as a cellphone blowing up a filling station. Far more likely to get sparks of your quarter taps (Blakey's) than a mobile phone.
Scaremongering |