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OK, it's not like we've finally discovered the origin of the red ring of death, but who knows, this might be an explanation: a 12 year old boy from New York has the "ability" to crash everything electronic that he touches, including his craved Xbox 360 console.

As every kid his age, Joe Falciatano has dreamed of incarnating one of the super-heroes with which Marvel's comic books are filled with. Voluntarily or not, he eventually stopped at 'Magneto Man'. And that's because he actually possesses the power to attract metal objects and to... crash electronic devices.

No one knows exactly how his body 'manages' to produce the electrostatic charges, but it's a fact that the computers in his school are not happy with Joey's presence, crashing every time the boy touches them. His teacher, which you can see in the video below, advised him to wear an anti-static wrist strap to fend off the crash -threat, and until now the solution worked.

But Joe's problems didn't end up here. An avid gamer like himself couldn't have missed the chance of fragging some friends over at Xbox Live, so his parents bought him an Xbox console just for that. However, the console crashed every time the boy laid his hands on the controller, which, unfortunately for him, wasn't a wireless controller.

Eventually, his parents bought an Xbox 360 console with a wireless controller, but Joe still has to sit in the opposite corner of the room, which is still incovenient, knowing that he wears glasses...