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Uncategorized Friday, April 29th 2011 at 2:37 pm

Man Struck By Lightning Stands Up, Dusts Off, Walks On [Video]

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While crossing a road, one very lucky (or very unlucky) gentleman is suddenly struck by a bolt of lightning. Seconds later, he stands up and seems completely unphased by his experience. He likely came out better than the fellow in another lightning strike video making the rounds these days, who appears to be struck twice within seconds.

Considering a human population in excess of six billion, an average of 100 lightning strikes per second world wide, and the ubiquity of digital recording devices, these videos could very well be legitimate. But as with most things dredged out of the bowels of the Internet, we can’t positively verify their authenticity. Let us know your thoughts, and in the meantime I’ll be standing outside with a metal pole trying to recreate these farfetched scenarios, in the name of journalism.

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  • Skeptic

    wonder if this is legit… why was someone filming this elderly man crossing the street in the first place?

  • skeptical

    that looks like johnny knoxville in that old man costume he wears in the Jackass movies.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Reyes/1590322425 Jonathan Reyes

    Fake! Wouldn’t there be tons of electrical interference on the camera? I guess it didn’t have to be a digital camera.

  • Anonymous

    Man, even if it’s not real, think of what it would be like living your life after surviving something like that. “Oh you got a headache today Timmy? Can’t go to school? Daddy got hit by lightning, suck it up, bitch.”

  • Dhward1

    I doubt very seriously if this is authentic. It looks staged to me. Why anyone would be filming a single person crossing the street in a storm seems suspicious and then, immediately after the so-called “lightening strike”, the camera conveniently is taken off the man only to refocus on him lying on the ground: all appears very staged.

  • http://sdhardie.tumblr.com Sheila

    I was holding onto a metal gate, years ago, when a lightning bolt struck the ground only a couple of yards from where I was standing. I don’t actually recall the strike, but I awoke a few seconds (I assume? I suppose it could have been minutes) later, lying flat on my back on the ground. I have known horses who were struck and experienced basically the same thing as the man in this video… so I don’t know if it’s real or not, but it’s certainly possible.

  • Banff

    I don’t know if it’s legit; if it is I highly doubt that it was a ‘direct hit’ as most web pages carrying this keep stating. They take an illogical leap from the fact that you can see a flash in front of the camera somehow proves that he was struck directly. If it’s legit, I think it far more likely that the strike was near enough to knock him down, but not kill him – and not a direct hit onto his body, in which case he would be dead.