This is exactly the reason you don't stand under trees in thunderstorms - the sap boils internally and the tree fractures spraying hot splinters of wood shrapnel all over the place... no one knows if he'd have walked away or not but I certainly wouldn't want to have been there!

#(removed comment) You site fox as a reasonable source of unbiased information, despite them clearly being huuugly biased against the new plans! I am willing to bet the woman sited had an inoperable tumor (by that I mean the risks would be extreme / with no real change of outcome) you gullable ****. Of course, I bet you can't prove that case either way. The private companies are always going to be willing to take extra risks if specifically requested by the 'customer'.

TBH I am glad I live in the UK. I actually have a heart problem. I have been through times when I have been well off, times when I have been not so well off.. To think I would presently be saddled with crippling debts because I happedned to need help when I would have otherwise been unable to afford health insurance scares me!

Seriously you guys are hearing some pretty below belt lies from the powers that be and believing them.

"People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless." haha MUPPETS!

"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! - I am not a number, but a free man!"

LOL Great!

@no5 That would not stop him falling over though! (think CoG) He must somehow be anchored to the floor as mentioned above.

"What's the first song he's playing ? (not the grandpa' one... the next one)
I know it's a classic but I can't find it"

Jesu, joy of man's desiring, Mozart piano sonata then then William Tell's overture.

All played on a C Diatonic gob harp.

If anyone wants to know this series was called Weird Nature, shown on the BBC a few years ago. I highly recommend people here go looking for it (and it is available ;-) ) because the whole series was amazing from start to finish!

I would say reason telly set on fire is because it was plugged in!!!
Anyway, is this really a BB gun? Made good work of the tube!