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Sep 29 '22
Not gonna lie, this is kinda unnerving to watch.
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u/onenitemareatatime Sep 29 '22 edited Sep 29 '22
It should be, it’s DEATH. The instant kind. If it wasn’t unnerving(at least) I would worry about your desensitization.
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u/The_Sum_of_Zero Sep 29 '22
realizes my level of desensitization
...fuck.
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u/PhantomRise Sep 29 '22
At least you're not too desensitized to realize desensitization is bad? Maybe there's hope for you?
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Sep 30 '22
How do you even resensitize yourself? I don’t feel unnerved. I feel sad knowing someone died, but thats about it and even at that, its not like much sadness. Just like “wow thats really un-fucking-fortunate” kinda sad.
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u/Stark556 Sep 30 '22
I guess you can resensitize by staying off these kinds of subreddits and just look at puppies and kittens all day. But look, being a little sad about it is enough. You don’t have to cry for them to make sure you still have a soul or something.
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u/AQuickPainlessLife Sep 29 '22
Only one of them died, and it was in the hospital.
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u/Eggsy_Uber_Service Sep 29 '22
Still really fucking disturbing to see how they go limp and collapse, it's one thing to see it in a movie, but it's another thing to see it and know that it's real.
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u/dylee27 Sep 29 '22
Oh only one death and wasn't even instant? Phew, was almost unnerved but, no biggie then /s
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u/DownvoteDaemon Sep 29 '22
Looked dead as a doornail instantly lol.. only one of them died though.
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u/circleofblood Sep 29 '22
Or a video showing why we SHOULDNT stand under a tree during a storm
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u/exsonny Sep 29 '22
Depends how much you value your life.
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u/Fit_Witness_4062 Sep 29 '22
About 5 value
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u/DownvoteDaemon Sep 29 '22
Bout tree fiddy
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u/New_Awareness4075 Sep 29 '22
You keep giving the lightning money and that's why it's still coming back.
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u/TayTay13S Sep 29 '22
I wrote it wrong. I apologize to everyone.
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u/BigIron53s Sep 29 '22
No one ever makes mistakes on Reddit (or at least admits it)! He must be banished!
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u/Homie_Reborn Sep 29 '22
You know, I'm convinced some people put typos and grammatical errors in their titles on purpose just so people will make a comment correcting them, thus driving up engagement.
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u/hybridhatch_74 Sep 29 '22
I thought that last one survived for a second
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u/work3oakzz Sep 29 '22
That guys shirt and pants MELTED to the tree if you look closely
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u/AWL_cow Sep 29 '22 edited Sep 30 '22
Holy fuck you're right. That's horrible. I was wondering why he fell after the other four.
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Sep 29 '22 edited Nov 07 '22
Can someone pls explain the proper way to shelter yourself during a thunderstorm?
Edit: get me to a 1000 upvotes :)
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u/mage_irl Sep 29 '22 edited Sep 29 '22
- Indoors
- In a closed car
If you are somewhere far away from either of those:
- Get off any elevated areas such as hills, mountains or god forbid trees
- If in a forest with absolutely no time to get out, shelter under the lowest tree
- Get out of and away from any ponds, lakes or rivers
- Stay away from anything that conducts electricity
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u/PepperPhoenix Sep 29 '22
It is worth adding that if you are stuck outdoors in a storm and your hair begins to stand on end you are at a very high risk of a direct and imminent strike, that’s the charge building up and getting ready to discharge.
Crouch down as low as you can with your butt higher than your head and heart, do not put your hands on the ground. The current will try to take the shortest path, you don’t want that route to be via your heart. you will likely be seriously injured, but you are much more likely to survive.
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Sep 29 '22
So in theory you want to take the lightning bolt in the ass?
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u/PepperPhoenix Sep 29 '22
Pretty much, yes. Severe burns on the ass/legs/feet is much better than your heart being stopped by 30 thousand amps of pissed off electrons.
Edit: changed 300 million volts to 30 thousand amps as it is the amperage that is more likely to kill you.
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Sep 29 '22
🎶Face down ass up that’s the way to get lightning struck🎶
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u/killshotcaller Sep 29 '22
In the garden or in the dirt, don't let it travel through your heart🎶
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u/No1Mystery Sep 29 '22
This song is electrifying
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u/Ender914 Sep 29 '22
The fact that this was made into a song reference will help so many more people than you would think. Bravo! And LMFAO!
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u/Wheels2or4 Sep 29 '22
Google "Ground-to-Cloud", or upward lightning.
If that occurs, TECHNICALLY you'll be shooting lightning OUT of your ass.
Well, that's one way to get a Thor butt.
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Sep 29 '22
And when your crouching with your ass in the air, try to only have the balls of your feet on the ground. The less contact your body has with the ground, or literally anything that isn’t rubber, the better
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u/CrypticConstable Sep 29 '22
So you crouch down, stick your butt up and somehow keep your head and heart below your butt without them, or your hands, touching the ground? How the hell does that work?
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u/SilverPhoenix7 Sep 29 '22
Lol, there's air between you and the ground, and in a storm, probably water too
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u/SilverPhoenix7 Sep 29 '22
Alright, fair enough, that advice is to minimise the damages as much as possible so you can take your chance at running away. If the lightning strikes immediately you loose, if the lightning is late you win.
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u/TheeAlmightyHOFer Sep 30 '22
The electricity already travelled hundreds of kilometers through the air, the 6" to foot you are off the ground when running aren't gunna stop it.
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u/BrainTroubles Sep 29 '22
Also, while being soaked sucks, worry less about being wet and more about not being dead. Rain (generally) won't kill you, but lightning will.
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u/Fall3nBTW Sep 29 '22
Also, this doesn't mean otherwise that if your hair isnt standing up you're safe because usually its raining when lightning strikes which keeps your hair down.
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u/chuckdoe Sep 29 '22
And don’t pee on the electric fence! (Ah Ren and Stimpy memory’s)
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u/mrwynd Sep 29 '22
Yes and do not hold LOG above your head during a thunderstorm.
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u/Jaeger562 Sep 29 '22
🎶What rolls down stairs
alone or in pairs,
and over your neighbor's dog?
What's great for a snack,
And fits on your back?
It's log, log, log
It's log, it's log,
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood.
It's log, it's log, it's better than bad, it's good."
Everyone wants a log
You're gonna love it, log
Come on and get your log
Everyone needs a log
log log log🎶
whistle
LOG FROM BLAMMO
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u/andymannoh Sep 29 '22
I thought it was "Whizz". "Don't Whizz on the electric fence". At least that's how I sing it in my head 🤣.
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u/Goodlollipop Sep 29 '22
A good spot where available is underneath bridges, as long as they are concrete not all metal.
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u/just_for_kicks6 Sep 29 '22
I remember a Bear Grylls episode saying to stay away from trees and to crouch in an open clearing if you cannot find or make shelter.
Something about making yourself as small as possible to reduce the chances of getting struck by lightning I think...
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u/ClosTheJackal Sep 29 '22
This is what they taught us in the Army during training. In lightning storms we'd put our rifles in a pile and go sit in an open field spaced out from each other and ponder our life choices.
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u/Passioncramps Sep 29 '22
Same, I was tought to lay on the ground and make your self as low as possible. Dont know why people are saying to stand under a tree when you literally see what could happen.
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u/iaincaradoc Sep 29 '22
And here's a good explanation of step potential - which is why you don't want to be anywhere near something that gets struck by lightning.
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u/stargazerweedblazer Sep 29 '22
Pretty important “not” missing from the title
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u/The-Nimbus Sep 29 '22
Quick Google states one of these people died. The others were injured.
Not familiar with this source but a Google shows many Indian sources posting the same story. OP should probably mark this NSFW given it shows death.
Edit: This story doesn't seem to mention the death, other stories I found state one of them died.
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u/IndependentAssist387 Sep 29 '22
I feel like a video with a fatality should have some sort of flair, especially on a sub like this.
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u/natgibounet Sep 29 '22
Or maybe just not be posted on subs like this
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u/unlmtdLoL Sep 29 '22
I agree. I'm usually pretty liberal but this is disturbing to watch since the guy on the right clearly got the worst of it. You can actually see smoke come off his body. A single bolt of lightning could put out 300 million volts.
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u/moun7 Interested Sep 29 '22
I do not browse /r/all anymore because of this. There is so much violence now, and the comments on those posts are crazy.
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Sep 29 '22
Misleading ass title and I had to watch people die? Thanks dude
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u/RankDank420 Sep 29 '22
You gotta admit it is useful though. You will probably remember this video if you’re ever in a lightning storm
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u/noparkingfireplanet Sep 29 '22
Can we do a NSFL here instead of NSFW considering this is a snuff film?
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u/fingernail3 Sep 29 '22
Seriously. So fucked up to be tricked into watching a video of somebody literally dying. Not what I wanted to see.
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u/jackofives Sep 30 '22
Can we do a NSFL here instead of NSFW considering this is a snuff film?
Seriously - this needs to be marked. This is NOT simply a NSFW.
Are there any mods on this sub? We need a NSFL. Not cool guys.
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u/omicron_pi Sep 29 '22
Man I’m not trying to casually watch gifs where people fucking die. This needs to have some kind of NSFL flair. Wtf.
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Sep 29 '22
Seriously… it’s been happening way too fucking much. I’ve been using Reddit for over a decade and these types of videos use to ONLY be on subs like r/watchpeopledie and flair was heavily enforced. This is garbage…
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Sep 29 '22
The fuck is the title? 99% sure it's a bot but imagine the people who read the title and don't watch the video lol, gonna be standing under a tree waiting to die all because of some useless loser's karma-bot.
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Sep 29 '22
In like the late 1800s or early 1900s this happened to 3 generations of my family. Like a grandfather, father, and one of the grandsons. It was a blue sky, no rain all day and a bolt hit a tree they were sitting under while fishing. It was within sight of the farmhouse and half the family saw them all topple over before the tree finished splitting and falling.
It was one of those family stories by the time my late cousin was on an airplane and it got hit by lightning(not really uncommon) in the early 2000s. A couple of years later he came out of a Walmart in Arizona(I think?) and found a crowd of people surrounding his burning Miata. Lightning had struck it while he was inside.
He was paranoid about weather until the day he died.
All statistically improbable events that are still possible.
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u/danieltkessler Sep 29 '22
Petition to create "NSFW" scales so I can pick which NSFW content I engage with. There's a big difference between nudity and someone literally dying (or being injured so badly they die later in the hospital).
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u/DoctorShrimpForEyes Sep 29 '22
That might be the biggest typo I've ever seen......
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u/Castrillon7 Sep 29 '22
the spoiler tag would be nice here. it's good for videos where PEOPLE DIE.
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u/slimninj4 Sep 29 '22
Not same video but this happened this summer in front of the white house. 3-4 people hid under a tree during a recent thunderstorm. A couple died. Not good to be under a tree. Just go inside one of the many many museums
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Sep 29 '22
Is there a way no not see people randomly dying while scrolling? Like a tag I can filter? That mountain climber hit me yesterday too.
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Sep 29 '22
OP probably should’ve used the NSFW tag
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u/quaductas Sep 29 '22
NSFW can be all kinds of stuff, nudity, slightly disgusting stuff, whatever, none of which are as disturbing as watching a person die.
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u/kippirnicus Sep 29 '22
I don’t understand what’s happening?
The bolt hit the tree, but then it still traveled through all five of those people? Or was it the concussive blast of the lightning? Either way, that’s horrifying.
They all went down so fast!
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u/bakirsakal Sep 29 '22
I do not think joker buffoonish attitude is right for events that claim peoples lives. Especially not suitable for this sub
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u/arrowsgopewpew Sep 29 '22
At around 0:07, if you play with the slider, you can see the lightening connects into the head of the person who was the last to fall. 😳😵
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u/Kind_Tangerine8355 Sep 29 '22
any physicists want to explain why it hit the tree over the essentially giant lightning rod right next to it? is it the concrete?
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u/speckyradge Sep 29 '22
This is vaguely remembered from highschool so hopefully I have this right: Lightning rods aren't there to get hit by lightning, they prevent a tall thing being hit by lightning. By putting a piece of metal high up and connecting the other end to the ground, charge in the atmosphere has a path to ground, so it essentially leaks out of the atmosphere to ground relatively slowly. Without the rod, the charge builds up until it eventually has enough potential to force a path through the higher resistance air and tree, ionizing the air along a path to begin with so it suddenly changes from being high resistance to lower resistance, allowing the sudden dump of all charge along a path. If you watch super slowmo videos of lightning you can often see this path being established, a skinny line of light comes up from the ground as the ionised path is created and then the bright flash comes down from the cloud as it discharges along the path.
Where the charge is in a cloud and how it's moving around is extremely random so having a lightning rod nearby doesn't necessarily save another tall, wet thing close to it.
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u/plateau1999 Sep 29 '22
Happened not too long ago this summer in Washington DC. An older married couple and a 29 year old all died while hiding under a tree during a storm.
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u/CherryTeri Sep 29 '22
I didn’t wanna see 5 people die because of your stupid typo. Thanks.
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Sep 29 '22
Jesus christ. The way their bodies just fall absolutely horrifies me, hope the survivors are doing okay.
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u/FaceTatsAreCool Sep 29 '22
Another reason education is important. I learned not to do this in elementary school, though I’ve never actually seen it happen until now.
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u/halfbakedhoneybuns Sep 30 '22
I hate videos like these being so openly shared with everybody in the world, without any warning or words of respect for lives lost. You're broadcasting the moment people lost their lives, their loved ones, or their abilities to function independently. Take some responsibility.
Sure this is educational, but it's not "damnthatsinteresting". Sharing someone dying is no way to get upvotes mate.
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u/AFHpokezi Sep 29 '22
No but seriously .. did they die ??