Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

(And yes, I know that Electro wasn't quite a mutant)

“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.”

Let me tell you my own story about static electricity. I'd taken a low dose of LSD, maybe four hits. This was about the sixth time I'd taken acid, and I was sitting in my dorm room with the lights out using my computer. I noticed that if I turned the monitor off, that if I ran my hand over it, a trail of light would follow and then dissipate.

I thought that was sort of neat, so I kept turning the monitor on and off to repeat it, and the effect became more prominent. Suddenly there was what seemed like an electrical explosion, and my hand was blown off the monitor by what I now assume was a huge static electricity spark. All the muscles in my arm and hand contracted and it atrophied into a tight, distorted ball.

For a moment I thought I'd actually destroyed my arm forever, but a few moments later I was alright and everything was working properly. My brain, temporarily sober, put together what had happened and I realized I didn't have anything to worry about. That said, I waited until the next day when I'd totally come down from the drug before I tried it again.

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