What’s the opposite of a Darwin Award? Something to give people who survive random acts of nature.
The Violet Jessop Award?
Nothing is perfect not even Darwin.
I mean, they walked in the middle of the street with a metal pole raised up during a thunderstorm.
I guess they were dumb but lucky to survive.
Those are umbrellas, and there are much higher metal poles in the surrounding buildings. I don’t think this would qualify for a Darwin award if they died, it’s the usual thing to go out with an umbrella in storms.
It’s a usual thing to stay inside during a thunderstorm, like the people in the background do. No wonder so many people get hit by lightning every year.
Do you take your day off every time there’s a thunderstorm? Or do you arrive soaked at work?
Some places have very frequent thunderstorms, can’t take a day off for each.
In fact I go to work by bike over an open field. If there’s thunderstorms, that we have quite frequently, I either shift times around to not get into it or take puclic transport.
Thunderstorms rarely come by surprise these days.
Don’t walk in the middle of the street with a metal pole in your hand, at least walk closer to a building.
It’s borderline insane that this is an argument at all.
Just go ahead and do what these two people did if it is deemed safe.
They’re in a city surrounding by buildings that should have lightning rods. Doesn’t seem all that dumb to think it’s extremely unlikely to be hit by lightning there.
The video is likely fake.
There’s no suggestions to stay outside during thunderstorms. It’s always “Go inside”, regardless of where you are. I don’t know where they would get the idea from that it is safe. Maybe a bit safer, but then they should walk closer to the building that they think is protecting them.
Edit: Can you explain to me how this was possible when the car was right next to a lamppost?
What a strange hill to die on
I guess I will live . That’s my point.
WHY AREN’T YOU MORE WORRIED ABOUT BEING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING!!
You know, the thing that’s used as an example of extremely rare events.
Show me your anger, please!
If people would go outside all the time during thunderstorms with metal poles raised up, it wouldn’t be as rare. There’s a reason humans and animals hide from storms. And that’s the reason a lightning strike hitting a human is considered a rare event. When it isn’t even that rare.
You guys just claim the buildings have lightning rods when you don’t even know.
their intelligence has nothing to do with it. only whether they kept themselves in the gene pool.
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.
fuck you two in particular
Whenever you hear the intro, you should probably be putting your metal umbrella away… :P
Glad they are alright!
Before reading the title I thought this was a poor quality movie rip
fuck you two in particular
You would totally think “God struck them down” in this scenario, given the right cultural context.
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!
Why were they filming?
You can see this is a video of a computer screen.
Presumably this is from a security camera.
