Shocking. Must be the Duracell batteries they just keep going. 😉
Once, I could believe. It seems very wet with the umbrellas, and very wet clothes may act as a sort of Faraday cage. Twice seems a bit unlikely, although, contrary to perceived wisdom, lightning IS more likely to strike in the same place twice, all down to shapes and electrical fields and stuff.
I didn’t see a secdond strike… I assumed he just hadn’t recovered enough to walk away the first time and collapsed again.
I had to look twice for the second strike too, Pseu
lots of argument in the blogosphere.
Er yes, Bravo, how true!
I’m inclined to think this is not real, but maybe I’m just a cynic.
btw, I have no idea where this is – the characters mean ‘website.’ Whether it’s an elaborate hoax or not is way above my geek grade.
This is precisely the problem with the Internet, Bravo. How on earth do you tell?
Awesome – A better stone than weed 🙂
One other thing. I would have though that a lightning strike that close to a CCTV camera would at least have produced some interference. Beginning to tend more to the the hoax side of things.
feeg, I don’t hink I’ve seen that point made elsewhere, and it’s a good one.
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Shocking. Must be the Duracell batteries they just keep going. 😉
Once, I could believe. It seems very wet with the umbrellas, and very wet clothes may act as a sort of Faraday cage. Twice seems a bit unlikely, although, contrary to perceived wisdom, lightning IS more likely to strike in the same place twice, all down to shapes and electrical fields and stuff.
I didn’t see a secdond strike… I assumed he just hadn’t recovered enough to walk away the first time and collapsed again.
I had to look twice for the second strike too, Pseu
Er yes, Bravo, how true!
I’m inclined to think this is not real, but maybe I’m just a cynic.
btw, I have no idea where this is – the characters mean ‘website.’ Whether it’s an elaborate hoax or not is way above my geek grade.
This is precisely the problem with the Internet, Bravo. How on earth do you tell?
Awesome – A better stone than weed 🙂
One other thing. I would have though that a lightning strike that close to a CCTV camera would at least have produced some interference. Beginning to tend more to the the hoax side of things.
feeg, I don’t hink I’ve seen that point made elsewhere, and it’s a good one.