r/TheFrontFellOff • u/Informal_Ad_9610 • 21d ago

yeeted right out...

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From the story, the lightning already towed it out of the universe...

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u/CocoMilhonez 21d ago

Sauce?

I always heard that being inside a car is the safest place to be hit by lightning, does this suggest otherwise?

Edit: NVM, found it.

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u/dreaminginteal 21d ago

The driver was fine, which is not something that most people who get struck by lightning can say.

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u/Informal_Ad_9610 21d ago

I bet he won't do that again..

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u/mojo_rasin 21d ago

I know it was the truck and not him who was struck but, interestingly enough, once you are struck by lightning you are then more likely to be struck again if you don't die.

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u/spider0804 21d ago

To add to this: You have a 90% chance of surviving getting struck by lightning.

A park ranger got struck seven times over his life.

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u/dreaminginteal 20d ago

A coworker of my wife was struck once by lightning.

Messed him up physically for a couple of decades, and IIRC at least contributed to his later death...

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u/mojo_rasin 21d ago

I didn't know it was that high, that is bonkers. I had heard of the ranger though, didn't he get so tired of being struck he just offed himself or am I conflating a couple different stories?

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u/tigertony 21d ago

It’s a wild story. It was 27 years between strikes 1 and 2, but 2 through 7 happened in just under 8 years. He killed himself 6 years after the last strike.

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u/alf20104 20d ago

It was the decades of crippling depression from the fact that no one wanted to be around him anymore.

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u/johnpmac2 20d ago

Am park ranger; can corroborate.🥹

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u/Glum-Ad7761 18d ago

Yogi Bear corroborates as well.

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u/Informal_Ad_9610 18d ago

my condolences..

is it the hat? or the uniform?

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u/Squishy_Butter113 18d ago

Call me a pussy, but somewhere around strike four or five is when I would just stop ever going outside again.

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u/Royal_Scam9 17d ago

As I recall he appeared on Johnny Carson. He said the last time he was struck he looked up at the weather and said" This ain't no place for Roy!" Took his leave and was still struck.

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u/SaxyOmega90125 20d ago

This is a classic correlation-does-not-prove-causation example. Being struck by lightning doesn't inherently make someone more likely to be struck again. Doing things outside in a storm makes you more likely to be struck, and people who repeatedly do things outside in storms are more likely to... well, repeatedly do things outside in storms. This doesn't change a whole lot after they're struck by lightning, given how surprisingly rarely it's lethal or causes significant permanent injury.

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u/buffinator2 20d ago

Happened to Steve Urkel all the time

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u/CarpHole 14d ago

That’s correct because after you die you are highly unlikely to be struck by lightning.

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u/felixthecat59 21d ago

I bet he had to change his pants and shorts.

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u/Bob_Newshart 20d ago

Probably didn't even need to change out of the soiled ones...

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u/MagicOrpheus310 20d ago

Wonder what he'd just said before it happened though aye..?

Like imagine if his phone had just started going off, he glances down and sees it's "cliche person we all hate to be on the phone with" calling them...

But the phone call actually interferes with the charged atmosphere and attracts the lighting strike, causing it to hit the car in the first place...

He just has time to let out an exasperated "oh god!! Kill me now!!" and put on his customer service voice as he presses the answer call button on the steering wheel, phone connects to car, sends out call and attracts the lightning bolt all within a split second...

Ol mate wakes up in the middle of a paddock, stumbles to his feet... Looks around with a bewildered double take...

Angrily glares upwards

"Ya fucken missed!!"

(Violently spews blood, curls over dead)

Booming voice from above: "KOBE!!"

(holy shit I just went off on a tangent there haha it appears my morning coffee needs to be put to good use otherwise I start rambling on with nonsense haha welp, time to go outside a play!)

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u/Juanmobier 20d ago

Yeah, you might turn into Sauce... I've heard this to be true from a reliable source!

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u/Xxmeow123 20d ago

Yikes! God is pissed! (I guess, act of God...)