Re: Static electricity in man's jacket leads to burns

> Fire officials in Victoria state said the man, Frank Clewer, had built up at
> least 30,000 volts of static electricity in his jacket simply by walking arou
> "I actually scorched a piece of plastic I had on the floor of the car," he
> said.
> Fire officials took Clewer's jacket and said it continued to give off voltage

Wow, just think how we might run our hybrid cars by sliding our butts on the
seats :0