whooooaoooww... so the stories are true!! Is that Powder?

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I can't believe this because, well, I might be demented but I find this to be really funny. At least the first one had me laughing.

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/medical.htm

The chances of being struck, once, are 1 in 6250, but twice and consecutively? Fuck that.

http://www.uic.edu/labs/lightninginjury/ltnfacts.htm

It's not so much that he got hit twice as it is that he got up after each one.

>> ^NordlichReiter:

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/medical.htm
The chances of being struck, once, are 1 in 6250, but twice and consecutively? Fuck that.
http://www.uic.edu/labs/lightninginjury/ltnfacts.htm


Maybe . . . http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/bizarre&id=5520679

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I'm with the majority of the LiveLeak comments, looks fake to me. I'm no scientist but wouldn't the flash be much brighter for a lightning strike that close? And wouldn't all that energy and the resulting thunder have at least some noticeable effect on the camera, the car, the leaves, his shoes? He just drops to the ground like one of those startled goats.

Zeus is an asshole!

PS: Why mystery? Nothing mystical in the video.

Stay down! Stay down!

God must hate him.

Yeah, gonna have to say this is fake unless proven otherwise by trustworthy sources.

Too many objects around him that are more lightning-friendly, a.k.a. grounded. Once, mmmmmaybe. Twice? Fake.

Probably fake. Why YouTube video of a LiveLeak video?

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omg that's insane. It's just not fair.

Come on.

I can't believe anyone would think this was real. Oh wait, the majority of society are fucking morons.

What we don't know is that he was on his phone chatting up some girl. 'Yeah its 12 inches, and if I'm lyin so help me, God can strike me down right here.'

Unfortunately I have a hard time believing this as well. Most of these security cams have AGC and with it being that dark at night the lightning flash would have been a complete whiteout for at least a few frames of video. Instead you see a clearly defined bolt (for a single frame no less) and the rest of the frame looks like they just turned up the brightness.

Hell, even if this was broad daylight lightning that close would have overloaded the camera sensor anyways. Sorry. This is a bad attempt at a fake in my book.

Metal plate in the head?

Fake. I savetubed it and a snapshot of the single frame with the lightning shows no shadows thrown from the trees, and existing shadows, like in front of the closest van, are unaffected.

I recommend *nochannel *lies *comedy 'cause it's still funny.

Invocations (nochannel, comedy, lies) cannot be called by messenger because messenger is not privileged - sorry.

ZOMG I can tell by the pixels. I still LOL'd.

lol omg that is one unlucky sob wow to get strukc 2wice he must be like made of medal lol

Don't get up, man. DON'T GET UP!