April 29, 2011 6:39 PM

Man struck by lightning caught-on-tape?

By
William Goodman
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FAIL!

(CBS) - I've heard of people being struck by lightning (and have even had a close call myself), but to actually see it caught on tape?

This is one of those videos that will leave you in shock (no pun intended) and have you watching again and again. Take a look.

I will say that the video is so incredible that I do question if in fact it's totally legit. I've scrolled through it a few times and it looks real, but with the array of editing tools out there and the low-resolution of the video, it could easily go either way.

If it is in fact real, let's hope for this man's sake the quote "lightning doesn't strike twice" is true.


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by 1ManNamedDan May 3, 2011 11:33 AM EDT
I was at 3 day concert in the Polo Fields in SF, when I saw a girl 20 feet from me answer her cell phone and get blasted over my head!
The sound and light were like a flashbang grenade with much the same effect as 100 people dropped down and coverd up.
The paramedics luckily were nearby to massage her heart back into beating, but the smoking cell phone grafted to her hand I'm sure became a more permanent reminder to stay of the phone in a lightening storm (unless you are trying to get a personal phone invite to the next possibility)
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by thejoker12 May 3, 2011 4:45 AM EDT
I think this guy was drunk to begin with. He looks and acts like one of my supervisors.
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by BubbaSmith2011 May 2, 2011 5:08 PM EDT
Old man looks like Johnny Knoxville
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by davebakes May 2, 2011 11:13 AM EDT
Where is the air-ripping sonic crack that sounds like a grenade has just exploded next to you? Maybe it was something other than lightening that day I jumped underneath my corrugated tin pole-barn to escape a sudden deluge from a fast moving violent summer thunderstorm. All I know is that the whole world went white and the sound of the crack stunned me. It took me a second or two to realize that I was unharmed, and it had hit nearby. It was sort of like this video, but there should be an intensely loud boom I think. Maybe safety features in recording equipment/cut-off circuits blocked it?
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by edgeofbladeLR May 2, 2011 10:28 AM EDT
And the camera wasn't completely fried in the process? I say bogus.
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by swandancer6 May 2, 2011 8:27 AM EDT
How about being struck twice? http://www.break.com/index/man-walks-away-from-lightning-strike-2050919
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by swandancer6 May 2, 2011 8:26 AM EDT
How about being struck twice? http://www.break.com/index/man-walks-away-from-lightning-strike-2050919
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by Chandima-Gomes May 2, 2011 7:11 AM EDT
If this is a genuine record, then most probably the lightning may have hit an object nearby (probably the car behind) and the man has been subjected to step potential. Even in a direct strike, in contrast to the common belief, you may hardly see "smoke and flame" when a person is hit by lightning... One disturbing aspect of this video is.. "what kind of a person will keep on recording a person who is struck by lightning few meters away from him, without giving a helping hand"!
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by vjoharmon May 2, 2011 4:54 AM EDT
I call ******** on this one
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by rwsmith29456 May 2, 2011 12:50 AM EDT
The guy looks really bogus and why was somebody recording him walking across the street?
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by Scimajor May 3, 2011 12:02 AM EDT
That's what first crossed my mind. Secondly, lightning produces a large EMP in the immediate area of the stike. There's no chance the camera would keep recording uninterupted that close to the stike.
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