I dunno, seems fishy.
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get this guy a lottery ticket!
He should have stayed in the same place he got hit first.
In other news the leading atheist scientist working to disprove Zeus was struck twice by lightning today.
A new scientific study reveals that tinfoilhats won’t protect you from the CIA’s Deathray Satelite.
When you get struck by lightning, just stay down. Getting up again just makes Zeus angry.
I didn’t like his shirt.
Why isn’t the ground wet all over from the storm? Have to get out the bullshit meter.
I think its real. who would think to have the guy piss all over himself on both lightning strikes? Note to self: hit the head before venturing outside in a storm. Its only prudent.
I feel like that some days.
Thor is coming out soon
Call me mean, but it cracked me up. Funny as S.
Looks real enough to me.
Marks on pavement indicate burns or melted shoes and are probably still there.
Illumination of surrounding area during first strike seems right.
Joe Btfsplk must have been nearby.
Uh-oh! I’ve mentioned Joe Btfsplk in the thirteenth comment. Now I’m worri
I must admit the dark stain on the pavement after each hit stayed in place.
Completely fake. Freeze the video at the moment of the lightening strikes and you can clearly see that the shadow of the van on the lower left does not wash out when the lightening flashes. In fact it seems that it is more intense indicating that the flash is coming from the direction of the camera, not from the lightening. Someone is either cranking up the contrast in their video editing software, or firing a flash strobe and painting in the lightening later.
Painfully fake. The camera would have overexposed itself to buggery. People that have been in the vicinity of a strike are knocked to the ground and taken away in an ambulance. If he was hit by a decent strike parts of his body would have exploded when all the water in the cells vaporized.
1) There are LOTS of trees higher then that man
Lightning does not follow a straight line. The height of objects is not significant when compared to the length of the bolt which can be miles long.
2) There’s a camera mounted significantly higher. And it’s connected by CONDUCTIVE wires to ELECTRICAL WIRING of the building (through video recorder). Which if even not grounded still would be good destination for lighting bolt.
Conductance is unimportant before current begins to flow.
3) That man should have had superconductive clothing directly connected to deeply buried earthing electrode to have lower resistance than 1 and 2.
Resistance is unimportant until current begins to flow. Resistance=1/Conductance
Another thing that makes the video seem factual is the victim fades to the right just before the strike. He feels the charge building.
I suspect this was a side stroke to a main strike because he got up.
I’d suppose the huge heat of lightning would cause some air to explode away and cause some movements to the cars and trees. A few years ago a lightning bolt fell the other side of the street, and all the car alarms were triggered…
Also, houses and trees are taller than people, but that doesn’t ensure safety – actually people are told to stay away from trees if caught by a lightning storm in an open field.
Miguel
The exploding is the superheated air (plasma) surrounding the “bolt” of lightening expanding then contracting. That action is what causes windows to shake and, in your example, car alarms to go off.
People are advised to stay away from trees as they conduct the electricity down the outside of the tree. This can charge the air around the tree and if you are a better conductor than the tree, well, you’ll get a jolt.
Most lightening has already traveled a few miles through the air. Air is a good resistor, even more so than trees. So the lightening will strike the trees first and if he is close enough, he will be jolted. But I doubt he would receive the entire strength.
One other phony attribute is the whole scene doesn’t light up. The electrical bolt is invisible. It is the superheated plasma that surrounds the bolt, which is only a fraction of an inch, that creates the light. The plasma can be several inches in diameter. Much like an incandescent lightbulb, this superheated plasma will remain much longer than the actual strike. The scene should be lit up for at least a half second and maybe even longer with a slow die off.
As well, a tree would have been hit and there should have been some debris, such as leaves, flying about.