Groan, can anyone sort out my link? Briefly, a man in australia wore a combination of wool and nylon and built up a static charge of 40,000 volts, causing the carpet to melt and smolder as he walked through his building. The fire department was summoned and the jacket removed for safety, being measured a few volts short of causing a spontaneous combustion <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />