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Wide of Jason Bunch under tree2. UPSOUND: (English) Jason Bunch, struck by lightning while wearing a personal music player:\"My last memory is probably by that tree, it did wipe my memory.\"3. Close...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eCastle Rock, Colorado - 11 July 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Jason Bunch under tree\u003cbr/\u003e2. UPSOUND: (English) Jason Bunch, struck by lightning while wearing a personal music player:\u003cbr/\u003e\"My last memory is probably by that tree, it did wipe my memory.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up of line made down on tree by lightning strike\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jason Bunch, struck by lightning while wearing a personal music player:\u003cbr/\u003e\" About 4:30, 5 in the afternoon and to mow the lawn, it stormed about six, seven, 10 miles out to the north, I didn't think about it, next thing I woke up, vomiting with ringing in my ears in my room about two hours later and I was hit by lightning listening to my iPod.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE- July 2006\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various photos of Jason Bunch after being struck by lightning\u003cbr/\u003eChicago, Illinois - 11 July 2007\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of Dr. Mary Ann Cooper of the American College of Emergency Physicians and an ER doctor at University of Illinois Medical Centre at Chicago.\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Mary Ann Cooper, member of  the American College of Emergency Physicians: \u003cbr/\u003e\"In the last couple of years there have been a lot of rumours going around that electronic devices, cell-phones or any kind of metal you are carrying attracts lightning, metal does not attract lightning, metal conducts lightning once its hit.\"\u003cbr/\u003eCastle Rock, Colorado - 11 July 2007\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jason Bunch, struck by lightning while wearing a personal music player:\u003cbr/\u003e\" The I-Pod headphones were almost disintegrated, all the white plastic was completely melted , all that is left is the inside threads of the headphones.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up of I-Pod parts damaged with lightning strike\u003cbr/\u003e10. UPSOUND: (English) Jason Bunch, struck by lightning while wearing a personal music player:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The plug-in cable was melted off, the headphones themselves just disintegrated, no more copper, no more white plastic, this is part of one of the headphones, this is the burned exploded part from one of the headphones and here is the iPod case, burned with a couple of holes in it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eChicago, Illinois - 11 July 2007\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Mary Ann Cooper, American College of Emergency Physicians\u003cbr/\u003e\"There have certainly been several reports of people who have been injured while on a cell-phone, we have no real evidence that increases or changes those kind of injuries you can have. This is the first iPod injury that I am aware of and certainly what seems to have happened to him is the lightning contacted the iPod that the gentleman had, caused a surface burn, went up through the wires and caused the injury to his ear drums.  Ear drum rupture is very frequent with any lightning frankly because of the effect of being close to lightning.\"\u003cbr/\u003eCastle Rock, Colorado - 11 July 2007\u003cbr/\u003e12. Medium shot of t-shirt that has burn hole in it\u003cbr/\u003e13. UPSOUND: (English) Jason Bunch, struck by lightning while wearing a personal music player: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Covered in burn marks and grass stains, it looks like its been exploded from the inside and it was.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close-up of burn hole in shorts where iPod was\u003cbr/\u003eChicago, Illinois - 11 July 2007\u003cbr/\u003e15. Medium shot of woman walking with iPod\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various shots of people walking with cell phones\u003cbr/\u003eMedical experts in the US warned of the dangers of using personal electronic devices outdoors during electrical storms as the metal acts as a conductor.\u003cbr/\u003eA Canadian jogger suffered chest and neck burns, ruptured eardrums and a broken jaw when lightning travelled through his music player's wires.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd last summer, a Colorado teenager ended up with similar injuries when lightning struck nearby as he was listening to a personal stereo while mowing the lawn.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It stormed about six, seven, 10 miles out to the north, I didn't think about it,\" said Jason Brunch.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Next thing I woke up, vomiting with ringing in my ears in my room about two hours later and I was hit by lightning listening to my I-pod,\" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eEmergency physicians report treating other patients with burns from freak accidents while using personal electronic devices such as beepers, Walkman players and laptop computers outdoors during storms.\u003cbr/\u003eContrary to some urban legends and media reports, medical experts say electronic devices don't attract lightning the way a tall tree or a lightning rod does.\u003cbr/\u003eBut wearing the electronic device can cause more serious injuries if your hit by lightning.  \u003cbr/\u003e \"In the last couple of years there have been a lot of rumours going around that electronic devices, cell-phones or any kind of metal you are carrying attracts lightning, metal does not attract lightning, metal conducts lightning once its hit,\" said Dr. Mary Ann Cooper of the American College of Emergency Physicians.\u003cbr/\u003eWhen lightning jumps from a nearby object to a person, it often flashes over the skin said Cooper. \u003cbr/\u003eBut metal in electronic devices  or metal jewelry or coins in a pocket, can cause contact burns and exacerbate the damage.\u003cbr/\u003eA spokeswoman for Apple Inc., the maker of iPods, declined to comment. \u003cbr/\u003ePackaging for iPods and some other music players do include warnings against using them in the rain.\u003cbr/\u003eLightning strikes can occur even if a storm is many miles away, so lightning safety experts have been pushing the slogan \"When thunder roars, go indoors,\" said Cooper.\u003cbr/\u003eBunch, who was listening to Metallica while mowing the grass at his home in Castle Rock, Colorado, still has mild hearing damage in both ears, despite two reconstructive surgeries to repair ruptured eardrums. \u003cbr/\u003eHe had burns from the earphone wires on the sides of his face, a nasty burn on his hip where the iPod had been in a pocket and \"a bad line up the side of my body,\" even though the iPod cord was outside his shirt.\u003cbr/\u003eLike the Colorado young man, the Canadian patient, who declined to be interviewed or identified, has no memory of the lightning strike.\u003cbr/\u003eEardrum ruptures are considered the most common ear injury in 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