Filming storm is 'struck by lightning' but survives thanks to new mobile case

[Zucca]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5998907/Woman-claims-iPhone-cover-saved-electrocuted-lightning.html

 

We know that lightning bolts carry from 5 kA to 200 kA and voltages vary from 40 kV to 120 kV.... I simply don't believe the cover saved her ass. 

[Richard Crowley]

Wow "news reporting" has really become a farcical joke. When I was a child, broadcasters actually had separate news departments operated by real reporters.  Now, the "news" department is a branch of "entertainment".  They produce sensational stories to gain viewers for the adverts.  The modern term is "click-bait" but they have commercialized it.

[Zucca]

From the www:

Fat has lower water content and is not highly conductive.

That's how she survived. 

[CJay]

Wow "news reporting" has really become a farcical joke. When I was a child, broadcasters actually had separate news departments operated by real reporters.  Now, the "news" department is a branch of "entertainment".  They produce sensational stories to gain viewers for the adverts.  The modern term is "click-bait" but they have commercialized it.

Yeah, but that article is in the Daily Fail, a nasty little rag that supported the Nazis prior to WW2 and is still as xenophobic, racist and unpleasant as it ever has been if not more.

Generally regarded as a joke and, like Fox in the UK, not actually a source of news