Today's lesson: don't mow the lawn while listening to your iPod during a lightning storm

I was almost hit by lightning but ha I wanted it to!
anyway get better dude and no more mowin' the lawn when theres a frickin' lightning storm!8P

@bryan

Hold on my man... don't EVEN TRY to lump all Americans as being stupid -- enough to;
1.) Live in red neck, Colorado.
2.) Mow the grass in the middle of a thunderstorm.
3.) Hold on to a huge metal conductor in the middle of a field.

I'm sorry the poor bastard is deaf, but... didn't his mom send him to school? Don't they have SCIENCE in Colorado? We'll jump over the most obvious point that “lightning is attracted to metal”, and move on to the second point which is, wasn't it raining outside? Why in the hell would ANYBODY be mowing the grass in the rain?

Good luck, trying to sue Apple on this one. Jobs' (pack of wolves) Lawyers will have these 2 for lunch, right after they stop laughing.

even a gasoline engine produces electricity. It is what fires the spark plug. More than anything being the tallest object in an open area (lawn) is most likely the reason he got struck. There have been documented cases of people being hit by lightening and the rivits anf buttons of their jeans being the exit point and the only place they got burned.

Ride The Lightning? poor boy, but thanks God he´s alive to tell it, could happen to anyone, anywhere....

Mom's a bit ignorant; maybe she should check out the Wikipedia article on lightning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning , especially the business about the "tall, grounded object." Hmmm... that describes (a) and iPod or (b) Bunch. They should be thanking Apple -- the iPod almost certainly provided the "path of least resistance" between Bunch's butt and head...

I hope the apple care protection plans cover this in the future. It is an obvious issue which needs to be addressed promptly.

I have also heard that ipods have been implicated with petrol station freak fires.

it could be obvious to say, ipod is the devils portable music player of choice.

! be careful when listening to your ipod.. as your number might come up..

Yeah, it may be his own fault for mowing the lawn during a thunderstorm but I still feel sorry for the guy. He got hit by lightning for cryin out loud. I can't understand why alot of these commenters are being pretty cruel about what happened. There are more important things to rant about.

People, people, see it that way : The ipod is so damn simple, even idiots can use it :D

"could we, perhaps, spare at least a little bit of sympathy for our poor, senseless-and-now-equilibriumless, redneck friend?"

Umm, L'me think..................No. Why encourage stupidity?

Looks like boy and his mother need to read some basic physics book. And it seems that iPod saved the life of the guy.