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Hooked on Static

Fire officials evacuated a building in southern Australia after a man triggered a massive shock of static electricity that caused burn marks in the carpet, a media report said Friday. Fire officials in southern Victoria state said the man, Frank Clewer, had built up at least 30,000 volts of static electricity in his jacket simply by walking around the western city of Warrnambool, according to a report by the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

He received his first shock when he walked into a local business Thursday afternoon. “It sounded almost like a firecracker or something like that,” Clewer told the ABC. “Within say around five minutes the carpet started to erupt.”

Fire officials took Clewer’s jacket and said it continued to give off voltage, the report said.