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Oh! To answer the question, I won a new BMX bike in a raffle when I was 8 at a local discount store called Yellow Front. Then when I was 10, I won a new 19 inch color TV in another raffle at the same store. However, since I wasn’t 18 years old, I was ineligible to win and they wouldn’t give me the prize. Later that year, the store declared bankruptcy and closed their doors forever. Should have given me the TV 
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My dad was struck by lightning when he was a kid. He was running home in the rain carrying an umbrella, the kind with a metal point on top. Lightning struck a telephone pole right near him, arced to the umbrella then to the ground. He screamed and threw the umbrella. He knows what happened because his mother was watching through the window.
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I knew a guy in college that was working on the volunteer hybrid electric vehicle project we had. Electrical engineering student. He tried to rewire a high voltage outlet in the garage to a lower voltage that was needed. He did it with the circuit live. He shorted it out with a screwdriver and the explosion knocked him about 6 feet across the room. The other students called the campus hospital and medics were there shortly. He was perfectly fine. He always had the nickname, "One-eye Jim". He had two perfectly fine eyes, but always wore this t-shirt that read, "Do not look into laser with remaining eye".
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My older brother’s cabin at summer camp got hit by lightning when he was a teen. He claims everyone was shocked but I have no idea if he was full of poo poo.Dead Sex-Parrot posted:cant be a riptide if you survive I was in a fair amount of rescues in riptides over my years lifeguarding at the beach, they’re absolutely dangerous but it’s not a death sentence. They only pull out, so survival/rescue involves pulling people sideways until we’re out of the pull. You Are A Werewolf posted:I haven’t been in the ocean since, so yes. Completely understandable, but if you ever go back by any means, you can identify a riptide from shore by seeing if the waves break, they don’t break in riptides.
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I have a friend who was leading a hiking trip in Arizona when he and several other people were struck by lightning. One of them died. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/06/28/lightning-kills-one-injures-several-other-at-mogollon-rim-abrk/29434993/ I was originally supposed to join this trip but dropped out at the last minute
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Total Party Kill posted:my wife can get a stuffed animal out of a claw machine in one try. That's a keeper, right there.
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Total Party Kill posted:my wife can get a stuffed animal out of a claw machine in one try.  
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Friend of a friend was doing some kind of equipment maintenance out in an orchard that had these deep long ditches that were half full of water from a recent rain. He made just a small driving mistake and flipped his work truck completely upside-down into the ditch. Maybe, maybe a small guy could've kicked out the window and wiggled out before drowning in the cabin, but this poor fellow was well in excess of 350 pounds and stood no chance, really.
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I know a couple of people, all of whom were wilderness adventure guides
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They must be really good at it if they can guide the lightning into their bones
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I survived an elephant attack and I am almost certain I have observed ball lightning in my home.
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I have been struck by elemental lighting a few times. Once was when I was young and went to turn a lamp off and I was reaching over without looking and the fixture for the bulb was really shallow and I touched the metal part of the bulb which was a good 1/2" or so above the socket. Got a nice little zap from that, fingers were a little numb. Another time while at work this power supply switch stopped working so I took it apart and redid the switch and just tried to test it while it was still open. Well one of the wires was touching the housing of the power supply which the rest of my hand was on while my thumb hit the power supply switch. Loud pop, lights flickering and I missed about 5 seconds and was now a few feet away on my rolling chair. This other time I was sweeping up while my friend's house was being built and there was an exposed wire hanging down which brushed my shoulder, that was just a pop and a little burn on my jacket, no damage to me.
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My dad was struck by lightning as a child. DM for details
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JustCallMeDC posted:it’s not a death sentence. They only pull out, so survival/rescue involves pulling people sideways until we’re out of the pull. Jealous.
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back when sodas had contests that you had to check the bottom of the cap to see the result for, two friends of mine, while they didn't win the contest grand prize or anything, got nearly 20 free sodas in a row by revealing a free soda token instead the odds of even one free soda were supposed to be 1 in 8 
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My mom has three kidneys!
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I gave bone marrow once to an unrelated person. There's about a 1 in 10,000 chance to match with an unrelated donor on the registry. I also got sucked the gently caress out buggy boarding on riptide a few times but wearing a wet suit makes swimming back just super duper poo poo instead of life or death.
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Three Olives posted:I survived an elephant attack and I am almost certain I have observed ball lightning in my home. Want deets on the motherfucking elephant attack. And around 20 years ago, my sister and sister in-law swear they saw ball lightning while they were hanging out in our living room. That's how we learned that’s a thing with disputed existence!
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Metaline posted:My mom has three kidneys! Drunk all the the time but also sober hell yeah
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i won the lottery but the pile of money got set on fire by lightning
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You Are A Werewolf posted:Says who? JustCallMeDC posted:I was in a fair amount of rescues in riptides over my years lifeguarding at the beach, they’re absolutely dangerous but it’s not a death sentence. they say RIP when you die, ergo it's not a riptide
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Ball lightning, located inside the kitchen?
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:i actually did know someone who was eaten by a shark. he worked for a same company as me but he wasn't full time staff at the same place as me. met him a few times but it was his wife who worked in the office on site i knew better. lol your co worker got shred to pieces 
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hard counter posted:back when sodas had contests that you had to check the bottom of the cap to see the result for, two friends of mine, while they didn't win the contest grand prize or anything, got nearly 20 free sodas in a row by revealing a free soda token instead
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One of my standard job interview questions is "is this a new position or just an opening." The follow-up if it's the latter is "how people have had this position in the last five years." One time the resulting conversation while the interviews figured that out was that one of my would-be predecessors was eaten by a shark. The interviewer who didn't know that was deathly afraid of sharks. It was a pretty great interview. I worked there for nine years.
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My grandma used to insist that when she was a girl she and other family members all saw ball lightning float from room to room in their house. For some reason this story would keep coming up year after year when I’m with my parents and every time it causes them to have the same stupid fight. My dad says the ball lightning story is bullshit because my grandma tended to make poo poo up and that doesn’t really happen. Then my mom gets mad at him suggesting her mother was a liar and ball lightning and other weird things electrical phenomena totally were a thing back when electricity in rural homes was still uncommon. They go back and forth about it and start yelling at each other then they sulk for a bit.
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Has there been documented video proof of ball lightning since tens (hundreds?) of billions of cameras were added to the world? If there hasn't been grandma's a liar.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Has there been documented video proof of ball lightning since tens (hundreds?) of billions of cameras were added to the world? Liar is often too harsh a word. These folks aren't intentionally peddling falsehoods.
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Yes they are. If you say you saw something you didn't see, then that's a lie. There's no spin you can put on it. E: No video proof but perhaps a university in China has measured it. 
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Bad Purchase posted:ever met someone who doesn't like beans? I met a woman once who'd never had rice.
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redshirt posted:I met a woman once who'd never had rice. 
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Right? From Ireland. Poe-tay-toes
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my great grandma got struck by lightning twice but she was also some kind of witch and lived to be 98
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Well since there was an overwhelming surge of interest as demonstrated by my inbox blowing up I'll post the tale of how my father was struck by lightning His parents were Ukrainian refugees. They had to flee their homeland when the godless communists charged them with war crimes after World War part two. They persevered and with 3lbs 8oz in gold bullion and half a dozen cyanide capsules they went to the promised land; edmonton alberta. To be cont'd....
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Yes they are. If you say you saw something you didn't see, then that's a lie. There's no spin you can put on it. Are you never mistaken?
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No but it seems like a cool way to get super powers other than radioactive poo poo or aliens or whatnot
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