Hit By Lightning Caught on Tape and the nasty results

From video poster:
I was filming a thunderstorm when suddenly lightning hit my hand. I lost my hand but I survived. I only saved the tape. Caution: Don't film a thunderstorm!
K0MMIEsays...

BLAAAAAAAAAARRRGH! EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!! FUCKING GROSS!!!!!!! EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

11989says...

>> ^NordlichReiter:
nsfw
BTW most electrical damage to the body involves massive burning and entry and exit wounds, thats... if you are grounded. You better hope you are grounded because if you aren't its not going to be good.


Surely the point is you don't want to be grounded!?! If you are grounded, electricity flows THROUGH you to the ground. If you aren't grounded, it won't. Eg: Being sat in a car, the rubber tyres insulate the car and prevent it being grounded.

Oh and fake IMO, I don't think there is any way a camera would survive a lightning hit to make the film recoverable. Magnetic tape would probably burn and a digital one would never survive.

Aemaethsays...

>> ^chilaxe:
Would the video be recoverable if that was what it did to his hand?


No, not if he had that kind of damage to his hand. Lightning creates an EMP when it strikes due to the huge release of electrons. Video tape uses magnetic fields to store the video data on the tape. Assume there was not extensive physical damage to the tape, it would have been erased on recovery. I also find it strange that the camera would capture 5 whole frames of the lightning strike.

12188says...

Oh my god, please tell me that someone didn't just attribute car/lightning safety to their rubber tires. Tell me you are still in grade school please. It's the metal cage of the car that diverts the electricity around its occupants, has nothing to do whatsoever with the tires, rubber can actually conduct electricity, albeit very poorly. Seriously, are schools teaching science anymore?

Plus, if you've seen an electrical burn, it looks nothing like the picture. Like someone said when you are struck by lightning there is an entrance point and an exit point, both of which are burns, but lightning doesn't "roast" a person. That picture looks more like an acid burn of some sort.
Again, is science not in schools anymore?

Aemaethsays...

>> ^iloseatlife:
Plus, if you've seen an electrical burn, it looks nothing like the picture. Like someone said when you are struck by lightning there is an entrance point and an exit point, both of which are burns, but lightning doesn't "roast" a person. That picture looks more like an acid burn of some sort.
Again, is science not in schools anymore?


I'm afraid I'm not equipped to comment on the car comment, but the burn in the video is actually an electrical burn. Feel free to read the whole thread, but eric already showed where the picture came from and that it WAS in fact an electrical burn.

NordlichReitersays...

If you get struck out side of a car you would want it to flow through you and into the ground... not just circulate around your body.

BTW I don't think a lightning strike will let you survive, it is rare and this video is a troll(Fake).

>> ^Bluebeard:
>> ^NordlichReiter:
nsfw
BTW most electrical damage to the body involves massive burning and entry and exit wounds, thats... if you are grounded. You better hope you are grounded because if you aren't its not going to be good.

Surely the point is you don't want to be grounded!?! If you are grounded, electricity flows THROUGH you to the ground. If you aren't grounded, it won't. Eg: Being sat in a car, the rubber tyres insulate the car and prevent it being grounded.
Oh and fake IMO, I don't think there is any way a camera would survive a lightning hit to make the film recoverable. Magnetic tape would probably burn and a digital one would never survive.

HadouKen24says...

BTW I don't think a lightning strike will let you survive, it is rare and this video is a troll(Fake).

There are actually quite a few examples of people surviving direct or close lightning strikes. They're not all equally powerful.

As long as the current doesn't pass across your heart--or if it does, there's someone nearby who can do chest compressions until the EMT's arrive--you have a decent chance of survival.

eric3579says...

1. Electricity(lightning)will always follow the path of least resistance.
2. You never want electricity to flow through you.
3. A car struck by lightning is grounded, and the lightning will pass through the tires. It is possible that it will also flow through an occupant.

snoozedoctorsays...

Interesting facts,
24,000,000 cloud to ground strikes per year in the US
A human casualty occurs about 1/60,000 strikes
Florida has twice the lightning injuries of any other US state.

Golfers remember, when caught in a thunderstorm on the course, take your 1-iron out of the bag and hold it high over your head. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

jmdsays...

I would have to say fake on this. Although video footage would easily survive a lightning strike. Lightning does not have a particularly strong magnetism (its a spark.. not a coil of wire), how ever the suddenly over charged flying head would def have made the tape it was touching.."colorful". Yet here we see it cuts off "cleanly" at the lightning strike.

crittttersays...

In a film tech class we were taught to keep our left hand in our pocket when checking for live current - keeps the current from crossing the heart, contains it to the right side if things go wrong.

MarineGunrocksays...

I thought I had left a comment when this video was still queued, but I guess it never went through.

I had mentioned that electricity has to go out in order to go in. So it would have cooked all his organs between entry and exit, as well as fried the camera.

As far as the TIRES go (yes, THAT is how it it spelled, you weird foreigners!) they do not automatically provide insulation just because they are made out of rubber. Yes, they insulate greatly against it, but they will still conduct if the voltage is high enough. Being that lightning strikes with about one gigavolt and 1.21 jigawatts, it's more than enough to fry just about anything.

zorsays...

IMO, this video is staged. The burns are electrical, but are from being 'grabbed' by high voltage, usually by workers, not during a lightening storm. Cooking like that takes time and high amperage.
When you are in a car, what protects you from ultimate harm during a lightening strike is that the roof and body act like a Faraday Cage, protecting you from carrying the current.
What's important here is what you (or anybody) can do with amateur special effects and a little mild misinformation. We'll probably see some more of this just before November. If you do it right you can change the course of history.

Kerotansays...

"I'm filming lightning, I'm still alive, I'm getting struck by lightning, I'am still alive, and when my hand is fried, I'll be still alive and when I'm posting this on youtube I will be still alive, still alive, still alive."

spoco2says...

Those of you saying that being in a car during a lighting storm isn't safe have no idea what a Faraday cage is obviously. It's not so much that the car isn't grounded (as hey, that much voltage will easily just arc over to the ground), what a car gives you is a cage surrounding you that is made of metal, far more conductive than you, and a path of far less resistance for the electricity... hence, you're safe inside

Unless it's a plastic car.

Then you're fucked.

Which is also why Aeroplanes (yes, we spell it that way in Australia) which start moving to other materials for their skin actually have to insert metal back into them to give a path for lighting to follow lest the plane be hit.

I just love internet know it alls who don't really know anything.

And yes, many people have survived lighting strikes. But yeah, this would seem to be pretty darn fakey fake fake.

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