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Mike Temporale
07-27-2004, 06:45 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/entry/5608362271648027/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/entry/5608362271648027/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"You hear the one about the fifteen tourists visiting the Great Wall of China who were struck by lightning when one of them was chatting on their cellphone during a thunderstorm? No? Well, the Chinese government has, and in response has issued an official warning that people turn off their cellphones during lightning storms. Pseudo-science? You betcha."</i><br /><br />This has to be one of the craziest things I've read in a while. I would have expected the Chinese government to be a little more rational in their decision. :roll:

seanhanley
07-27-2004, 07:51 PM
don't ya mean, "Cellphones and Lightning:" or does the chinese government want us to use our phones in the dark??

Mike Temporale
07-27-2004, 07:56 PM
don't ya mean, "Cellphones and Lightning:" or does the chinese government want us to use our phones in the dark??

:oops: fixed. Spell checkers just don't catch those typos eh?!