No, your cellphone doesn't attract lightning

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

At the Tibetan Freedom Concert in Washington, DC in 1998, a young woman was hit by lightning. She was talking on her cellphone at the time, and it was assumed/determined that she got smited because of all the extra EMFs she was throwing off.