Two Koreans with cellphones struck by lightning

Remember that big laugh we all had when China decided cellphones were too dangerous to carry because one "attracted lightning" to the tallest thing—a dude—on the Great Wall? Yeah, that was pretty good. Well, it appears Korea suffered two vaguely-similar incidents when a couple of people with cellphones were struck by lightning and killed. Before any more urban legends get started, at least one of them had their cellphone in their pocket at the time they were struck, so it's not like anyone is really sure that it was the cellphone that got them killed.

[Via MobileBurn]

[Cheng-Jih Chen @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

As the percentage of the population with cell phones increase, the percentage of people getting zapped while carrying a cell phone will also increase. Possibly in the not-too-distant future, everyone who gets hit by lightning in the developed world will be carrying a cell phone.

[Garglebreath @ Dec 19th 2005 1:01AM]

Almost everyone in South Korea owns a handphone or two. It's almost like reporting that someone got struck by lightning because he wore pants...