What's the opposite of a Darwin Award? Something to give people who survive random acts of nature.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2024
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The Violet Jessop Award?
Nothing is perfect not even Darwin.
Ouch. Hopefully they didn't actually feel that. I didn't when it happened to me, either time. Conveniently woke up later.
This is just a reminder, that this is more likely to happen than winning the lottery.
And you don't even need to buy a ticket!
Either time.
You're saying that happened to you twice?
Yes. Witnesses figured I died each time. Temporarily paralyzed the first time and with a "missing" few seconds, knocked out cold the second time. I try to avoid thunderstorms these days.
I was gonna ask, where do you hang out for this to happen to you twice lmao.
Oklahoma, but different places and times of year.
No, just lucky I guess.
In Olde English 'Vraylle' surely means 'one who walks about carrying a giant metal rod in a thunderstorm'. That's got to be it.
Seriously, when you were told you had potential this is not how you were supposed to demonstrate it! I hope you're Ok and these incidents are just a good story you can tell now.
Ha! "Potential"
Yeah, was fine in both cases. First time it was cloudy but not storming. Literal "bolt out of the blue" that liked me more than the large metal pole next to me. Second was trying to leave a park before the storm rolled in (obviously didn't quite make it).
You out there flying kites tethered with piano wire on top of a skyscraper or something?
How about 7
Number 7 is a banger
Did you get burned?
Some redness and temporarily paralysis, but nothing permanent, unless it's hidden in my brain. Disappointed I didn't get superpowers.
Oh that's good. I saw pictures of people with crazy lighting bolt burns on their body that looked like a tattoo. That's why I asked.
Whoa.
Before reading the title I thought this was a poor quality movie rip
Whenever you hear the intro, you should probably be putting your metal umbrella away... :P
Glad they are alright!
fuck you two in particular
fuck you two in particular
You would totally think "God struck them down" in this scenario, given the right cultural context.
Why were they filming?
You can see this is a video of a computer screen.
Presumably this is from a security camera.
There's a cottage industry that creates fake lightning strike videos. They're usually grainy to cover up the fakery.
Lightning strikes are relatively easy to put into a video. Getting the reflections right is harder though.
I'm not an expert, but the reflections don't look quite right to me. More light in the reflection than there should be in places where we don't see a reflection of the people before the lightning strike.
I could be wrong but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6yQOs93Cgg
I had a feeling it was fake bc the guy in the background didn't react at all. But who knows, I could be wrong too. Just gave me the same feeling.
I think you are right to be skeptical, especially considering their proximity to a seemingly tall building, but no, it's real.
Neat!
Path of lowest resistance does not need to be the shortest path
That's true, though lighting strikes kinda-sorta create their own path of least resistance. They're complicated, and I still consider it slightly unlucky given the proximity of the building.
Its definitely unlucky and unlikely!