Blame it on the video game

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N.H. Boy Hit By Lightning Through Video Game Controls

[ChadTower]

That can't be possible, the amperage of a lightning strike would fry the console to the point that it could never get through that far.  The console would burst into flames or just melt.  How you gonna get lightning through a 7805 or 7812 VR?

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but the internet would never lie to me............

[TOK]

They're probably setting the ground work to sue the cable company, Sylvania, Nintendo and mother nature. 

My telecomm job lets me see a lot of the aftermath of lightning strikes. I've seen some crazy stuff, and a lot of stuff related to things that are bad conductors of electricity. A couple years ago, I saw a stone chimney that got hit and fell over an a new Lexus GS400.
The weirdest was a tree that got struck. The strike hit the tree 30 feet into the rear property, travelled along a metal fence, went into another tree touching the fence, travelled along the roots, blew 7 inch chunks off asphalt out of the driveway that was OVER the roots, then flattened all 4 tires and cooked the electrical system of a Camaro parked on it. All the phones and everything electrical in the house was destroyed.