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you can be struck by a storm that's up to 20 miles away, i'd heard once.

still, i hate it when that happens.

"My wife always said, 'Oh, he's so sweet,' " Yearty said. "He'd come over and mow my lawn. There's a steep slope in my yard that I can't mow with my bad knees, but he'd say, 'Let me mow it.'

*sniff*

Hee hee

At least he went doing what he loved.........

Hee hee. My computer does not like the original production cell "Homers Shocking Event".

I'll bet he'd just finished quaffing a beer, killing a kitten, and posting something sacreligious about teh Virgin.

This is why I always wear my copper helmet when I'm outside people laugh and point but I say you never know and this guy has proved my point bet he wished he had borrowed my copper helmet

Yearty lost one-third of his work force Monday...

To maintain a healthy yard crew, it's important never to mow down more than 1/3 in any one trimming.

malcy - The Science bit: don't wear your copper helmet in a lightning storm, you will increase your chance of dying.

Damn, give me a dumbass tag

/hangs head in shame and leaves

SAD

Last heard yelling "Oh, Rat Farts!!"

"My wife always said, 'Oh, he's so sweet,' " Yearty said. "He'd come over and mow my lawn. There's a steep slope in my yard that I can't mow with my bad knees, but he'd say, 'Let me mow it.' "

Yearty said Ramirez came to his business two years ago and worked

as a helper, sweeping the floors tak-

ing out the trash and mowing the lawn.


but he'd say, 'Let me mow it.' "


No shiat! That's his farking job!

This happened to a teenager in Lexington, KY about a decade ago. IIRC, she was raking leaves in the sunshine when she was killed by lightning.

More like

that guy must have done something pretty bad to have pissed off God like that.

The same thing happened to a high school student in Panama City, FL about 6 years ago. She was walking across a courtyard in between classes and got hit. Interestingly enough, there were several tall pine trees in the courtyard about 50 feet away from her. I guess lightning doesn't always strike the tallest object.

This is exactly why I never mow the lawn or rake the leaves.

Knew a kid this happened to, but he lived. I think there's something about if your hair starts to stand up, get to cover. At least that's what my science teacher said.

I don't go to school in Panama City either.

Hopefully he was a Republican.

That's sad. I hope the owner is able to find another hispanic to do the yard work!

/sarcasm at it's best

There's a park ranger that has been hit more times than anyone who's lived to tell about it. And from what I remember reading about him, he said that by the time hair stands up on your head, it's too late. It's like tap on the shoulder before somebody sucker punches you from behind. Not sure what I'd do. Surely the correct action is to hit the dirt and lay low, but most of us would probably use the last couple seconds to inwardly think "WTF?"

"I was shocked," Yearty said

A few weeks ago this happened across the street from where I work in northwestern Virginia. Sunny day, not a cloud in sight, there were storms still in West Virginia to the Southwest. A single bolt of lightening shot across the sky from the other side of the mountains and hit the tree across the street. The storms never even came this direction; they passed by 20 or so miles south of us. It was startling.

"..and that's why we'll always need an army, and may God strike me down were it to be otherwise..."

/Meaning of Life

Sounds sad; it was a good person.

It was God calling an angel back home

/fundamentalist b.s.

The pic is really cool. Thanks lindseyp. Now I have positive lightning to keep me awake at nights, too.

I bet Guillermo didn't think the lightning was very positive for him.

My sacrifices to Thor are starting to pay off.

Guess he don't read my blood scrolls so good: It was "Michael Ramirez", dammit!

Off to find more adorable pets--don't go outside for a few days if your name is similar to my ex's.

That'd suck. With luck like that, on another day he'd have won the lottery.

If your hair starts to stand up, I believe the recommendation is to get in a tuck position. The bolt will hit your head (or highest point of your body) and travel down to the ground. If you're standing up, it travels much further and lots more chance of things getting damaged. If you tuck, less space for it to travel through, better chance of not getting a vital organ fried. Or so I've heard. Still, makes me feel lucky to have never gotten struck (I used to like to wait out until the rain was actually coming down)

Good one swede!

"He didn't speak English, and I didn't speak Spanish, but it worked out beautifully,"

"Hey Guillermo, what's your favorite alphabet letter?"

"Si."

Oh, I'm gonna miss him.

"I was shocked," Yearty said. "I'm still at a loss for words."

Apparently so...THAT right there should have been edited out...Reporter w\ a dark side, imagine that?

Doesn't lightning actually go UP into the clouds, instead of DOWN as most people think? So technically, the lightning didn't "hit" him, it simply passed through him....right?

I was shocked

rofl...

"Sun-shiney"??

madpiper:

That's a common misconception. Lightning doesn't strike the tallest object, it strikes the dumbest object. Usually that's a tree, but....

therealscrodd: Hopefully he was a Republican.

Obviously democrat since he was mowing a lawn. Republicans hire people to mow for them

"Caught a bolt of lightning... cursed the day he let it go... ah, ah, ah,... nothingman"

/PJ

""We said, 'Guillermo, Guillermo!' But he didn't appear to be alive," Yearty said."
....how can you appear dead? Maybe uncounsious (sp?) would have been a little more intellegent

ps...cool pic, lindseyp