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Irregular News for 07.21.06
Cantonment, FL -- A teenager hit by lightning while playing online poker spent Thursday recovering at an area hospital.
Eddie Wilkenson, 17, was electrocuted Wednesday afternoon when a lightning strike traveled through his home computer.
"I heard the lightning and I saw a flash. I felt a jolt go up my right arm and through my whole body," he told the Pensacola News Journal. "I couldn't move. My whole body was weak."
A few minutes later, he phoned his mother for help.
She called paramedics and drove across town to reach her son.
The family said the teen will need physical therapy to recover full use of his arm.
Eddie Wilkenson said he had been warned about using the computer in storms, but didn't take the warnings seriously.
"Where there is thunder, there is lightning. If you hear it, don't get on your computer," he said Wednesday night.
Computers can be protected from lightning strikes by surge protectors.
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Cantonment, FL -- A teenager hit by lightning while playing online poker spent Thursday recovering at an area hospital.
Eddie Wilkenson, 17, was electrocuted Wednesday afternoon when a lightning strike traveled through his home computer.
"I heard the lightning and I saw a flash. I felt a jolt go up my right arm and through my whole body," he told the Pensacola News Journal. "I couldn't move. My whole body was weak."
A few minutes later, he phoned his mother for help.
She called paramedics and drove across town to reach her son.
The family said the teen will need physical therapy to recover full use of his arm.
Eddie Wilkenson said he had been warned about using the computer in storms, but didn't take the warnings seriously.
"Where there is thunder, there is lightning. If you hear it, don't get on your computer," he said Wednesday night.
Computers can be protected from lightning strikes by surge protectors.
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