Anybody want to volunteer to make history?

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/08/us-weather-lightning-fatailities/

The United States has yet to see a lightning fatality this year, a record to date

Washington Post|2 hours ago
Nobody has been killed by lightning in the United States this year, according to data from the National Weather Service. This is a new record for the latest in the year the nation has made it without recording a lightning fatality.



C'mon, you want your name in the paper don'tcha' Sparky?


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[Artorias]

Well yeah kind of makes sense since a lot of people spent indoors.

 

[YuliApp]

why they do not count electrocution by electricity as lightning deaths?

 

[nakedfrog]

why they do not count electrocution by electricity as lightning deaths?

...because it's not lightning unless it's lightning, like from the sky?

 

[YuliApp]

...because it's not lightning unless it's lightning, like from the sky?

its still lightning, just very low in the sky and very short in distance?

 

[nakedfrog]

its still lightning, just very low in the sky and very short in distance?

I mean, yeah, if we want to casually discard the actual meaning of words, then you can call it Yankee Fucking Doodle for all I care.

 

[LikeLinus]

C'mon, you want your name in the paper don'tcha' Sparky?

Thought you were trying to get someone to finally have sex with Shorty. 😎

 

[YuliApp]

I mean, yeah, if we want to casually discard the actual meaning of words, then you can call it Yankee Fucking Doodle for all I care.

i think it is discriminatory. it is like hating short people. sparks life's matter ya know

 

[nakedfrog]

Short people got no reason to live.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Short people can short out a circuit too.

 

[sdifox]

its still lightning, just very low in the sky and very short in distance?

That word, it doesn't mean what you think it means.

 

[sdifox]

i think it is discriminatory. it is like hating short people. sparks life's matter ya know

Hating short people is a requirement here

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

'By the way, his breadbasket isn't quite where I pictured it. He's got a tough little forehead though.'
-- Steven Rhoades

 

[highland145]

Aren't you ded yet?


Strange.

 

[brianmanahan]

i volunteer to not get killed by lightning

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Wife was already struck as a kid. I told her 2nd times a charm for the history books but for some reason she gave me a very offended look.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

I've been mildly shocked by lightning strikes twice in my life - once indoors, once outdoors. Indoors I was touching a mouse (appropriately), outside I was touching a metal fence.

 

[kt]

What's the point trying to have your name in the paper when you're not around to brag about it?

 

[Captante]

What's the point trying to have your name in the paper when you're not around to brag about it?

😀

 

[MrSquished]

We took care of this in NJ

Man dies after being struck by lightning on New Jersey golf course

A 70-year-old man died after he was struck by lightning while on a New Jersey golf course on Wednesday afternoon.

abc7ny.com

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

His name wasn't Don, was it? He was in Joisey last I hoid.

 

[Captante]

We took care of this in NJ

Man dies after being struck by lightning on New Jersey golf course

A 70-year-old man died after he was struck by lightning while on a New Jersey golf course on Wednesday afternoon.

abc7ny.com

I blame the OP. 😉


(just HAD to go and say it ... sorta like "this guy hasn't hit a HR in 9472 AB's" lol .... CRACK!)

 

[Jon-T]

Had such a good streak going. Then this thread tempted fate now it ain't safe to go outside.

Tybee Island lightning strike kills a 15-year-old swimmer

A 15-year-old girl died Saturday after she was struck by lightning. The teen had been swimming in the ocean near 17th Street, according to the Tybee Island Police Department.

www.cnn.com

 

[brianmanahan]

wow

forget mcowned getting charged for shoplifting CPU cycles

OP went and tempted fate with lightning and this poor girl took the hit

officer i just witnessed a murder

 

[Spacehead]

Lightning kills an average of 49 people and injures hundreds more in the US each year, according to the National Weather Service.

Floodgates are now opened.