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You can tell by the way I walk my walk, I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk. — Bee Gees

Reuters reports: “An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.”

“Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woolen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was building up as his clothes rubbed together.

When he walked into a building in the country town of Warrnambool in the southern state of Victoria Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet.”

Our roving reporters reveal that the suit was purple and the shirt yellow. Very, very dangerous.

“I’ve been firefighting for over 35 years and I’ve never come across anything like this,” said fire official Henry Barton.

Firefighters took possession of Clewer’s jacket and stored it in the courtyard of the fire station, where it continued to give off a strong electrical current.

They are currently searching to recover the man’s “power tie.”

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