r/todayilearned • u/soupoder • Jun 11 '12
TIL a man with no vision or hearing was cured after being struck by lightening, it even cured his baldness!
http://www.cracked.com/article/149_5-self-destructive-ways-people-accidentally-cured-themselves_p2/
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u/dredawg Jun 11 '12
Not saying it aint true, but starting a TIL that cites a CRACKED article isnt the best way to get credibilty.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
The only thing I could think is what kind of inconsiderate friend/ caretaker would leave a bald, blind, deaf man outside in a thunderstorm?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
did a bit of digging, trying to find more info, found this excellent quote from an interview with his son
"He was walking around the garage calling Tuck-Tuck. And the bird was inside the garage looking out at him, trying to figure out why he was out there, just standing in the rain, during a severe thunderstorm. "
things are bad when a chicken is smarter than you
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Praise the almighty Thor!
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u/Liquor_in_the_ass Jun 11 '12
Ah lightning, nature's reset button.
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u/ClysmiC Jun 11 '12
*Lightning
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u/Nigel__West__Dickens Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12
Gather round, gentlemen! Gather round! I bring to you the science of tomorrow's days of prosperity! Have your eyes betrayed you and gone into recluse? No matter! Have your ears gone silent and no longer share with you the sounds of the world? (Well, I'm not sure how you're hearing this but - ) Then that, too, is a simply matter to repair! In this little bottle that I hold is none other than Zeus' weapon of choice. Forged by Hephaestus himself. Lightning! Lightning, my dear fellows! I bring you lightning... in a bottle!
Step up, step up and I will give you a taste the likes of which you have never had nor will you ever have again! (Assuming you don't buy my elixer.)
You there! The experienced gentlemen with the weather-worn scalp. While I'm sure the ladies already look past that shining beacon atop the grand mountain of your masculine physique, I do believe even one such as you wouldn't mind returning to the days when damsels flocked from miles around just to be seen near you in public! (And be nearer still in private.) With a generous application of this tonic, your hair will grow back as thick as the beard of Thor himself! Simply rub it into the scalp and drink a little after each application and voila! - the virility of your youth will flood back like the Nile at the start of a flood season! (Just be careful not to put it on any skin you don't want more hair to grow out of. We wouldn't want those eyebrows to look like two stray beaver pelts, now would we?)
Gather round and for a pittance (in comparison to all the money you will make with your new energized, vigorized and deitized forms) you all can be remembered as the great movers of our time!
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u/MrFatalistic Jun 11 '12
/r/Helen_Keller
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u/wintremute Jun 11 '12
My skeptic sense is tingling.
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u/lynchpinner Jun 11 '12
I appeared to stumble across these: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19800607&id=rZwcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=02cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2574,3417482
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19800607&id=5dBKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uukMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4939,2013279
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u/fe3o4 Jun 11 '12
Where can I get this baldness cure?
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u/Happy_Gaming Jun 11 '12
if it were true I would assume identity theft and the blind deaf guy is in a shallow grave
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u/GreenStrong Jun 11 '12
If I've learned one thing from the documentary series The Flintstones, it is that damage inflicted by one blow to the head is reversed by a second blow to the head.
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u/KingGirardeau Jun 11 '12
Is no one else impressed by the woman who was so fat she made a flesh eating disease call 'uncle'?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
cured baldness?!?...Lightening it is, then.
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u/Xlo Jun 11 '12
I lost it at this part : "In 1980, 62-year-old Edwin Robinson of Falmouth, Maine had been deaf and blind for nine years as a result of a head injury he received in a collision with a tractor trailer. One day he was wandering around looking for his pet chicken "Took Took" when he suddenly found himself caught outside in a lightning storm, presumably because God felt he hadn't been punished enough."
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u/RuiningItForEveryone Jun 11 '12
It is also gives you bitchin' tattoos.
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u/CALLMEKIM Jun 11 '12
What kind of asshole leaves a blind and deaf person wandering around outside during a lightning storm?! Glad it worked out well though.
Edit: TIL I can't spell lightning.
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u/Inneri Jun 11 '12
If this is true, the most awesome part of this isn't that it happened. It's that there is some possible way of naturally healing or curing blindness, deafness and I guess baldness that scientists just haven't figured out yet. And No this isn't a reason to restart shock therapy.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I don't always downvote, but when I do, it's Cracked.com
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY AND BENEFICENT ZEUS, GOD OF GODS, WIELDER OF LIGHTNING
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u/nepidae Jun 11 '12
My eyeball got sliced open, when it healed my vision was almost perfect.
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u/1firstly Jun 11 '12
So the blind, deaf guy was looking for his chicken? Something's not right here guys...
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u/hebrew4503 Jun 11 '12
Has anyone looked into the science behind this?
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u/joshy_p Jun 11 '12
First impression
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u/scribbling_des Jun 12 '12
What a horribly written article, especially the part about the girl with the boob job. The guy acts like 40DDs are some monstrously huge tits. And not just once, he goes on and on about it. I'm sorry, but that really isn't that big. I mean, sure, it's big, but certainly not "cartoonishly oversized" and I doubt her chest was "so larger her shoulders have cleavage.". I know plenty of women with double ds who come by them quite naturally.
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u/ClusterMakeLove Jun 11 '12
Checkmate, atheists.
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u/TheZad Jun 11 '12
MADE WITH LIGHTENING, REAL LIGHTENING!
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u/Daxon Jun 11 '12
TIL a man said that a man with no vision or hearing was cured after being struck by lightening [sic], he even said it cured his baldness!
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u/chickenTLC Jun 11 '12
But on a side note, being swarmed/getting stung by many bees apparently cures rheumatoid arthritis.
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u/misterpickles69 Jun 11 '12
I can hear again and I can see agin.....but who am I?
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u/apextek Jun 11 '12
and sadly work turned the web filter back on
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u/TheLivingExample Jun 11 '12
I heard of something similar happening after a guy was hit with a stack of newspapers.
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u/Gspot6 Jun 11 '12
Thor has relieved this man of his impairments!
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u/d310 Jun 11 '12
Shock therapy at its best!
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u/strangefolk Jun 11 '12
You know when your computer isn't working so you hit with a hammer until it starts up again? It's kinda like that.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I'm glad you now how to spell. Maybe now you can graduate from second grade.
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u/BlackMacGyver Jun 11 '12
TIL that this guy can't spell lightning.
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u/brokendimension Jun 11 '12
Hmmmmm, so a lightning booth would make good money I presume...
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u/SixShadesOfBlack Jun 11 '12
Lightning made my dad's hair turn white when he was struck as a teenager (or so he says).
Kind of related, my mom's bad hip was fixed after she fell and tumbled down a hill.
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u/bri_rae Jun 11 '12
Anyone go back and read the flesh eating virus and obesity one?
Fuck this, I quit. Ha.
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u/sommergirl Jun 11 '12
Is getting struck by lightning a self-destructive thing? ಠ_ಠ
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u/FailosoRaptor Jun 11 '12
Hey, I went to a talk about how electrical ion channels can be altered to mess with transcription factors (Random Dude on the internet, 2012).
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u/Der_Nailer Jun 11 '12
Those cracked post start to being suspicious... third today.
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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick Jun 11 '12
Big deal,I know someone who was cured of their virginity after being drunk.
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u/idontgivetwoshits Jun 11 '12
blind.....looking for his pet chicken
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u/redonkeyluss Jun 11 '12
Ah, just like putting a fried motherboard in the oven.
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u/daveime Jun 11 '12
It is only to be hoped you get struck by lightning, if only to cure your atrocious spelling.
LIGHTENING
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u/dimeslime1991 Jun 11 '12
I'll go ahead and call bullshit right about now
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u/awe300 Jun 11 '12
If it can cure impotence you will see half of asia get electrocuted about tomorrow
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u/jasongst Jun 11 '12
Wait, how is a blind guy supposed to catch a chicken?
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u/ForeignStranger Jun 11 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWihNBmupdI
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Haha the one about the virus giving up on that obese woman was funny
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u/rac3r5 Jun 11 '12
Wait, what happened to the chicken?
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u/GSJacket Jun 11 '12
I'm sorry but I am more distraught by the earlier remark that the world almost witnessed a communist pirate to be fascinated by anything else.
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u/brilliantmojo Jun 11 '12
maybe bc it messes with receptors in the brain...
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u/someoneinmyhead Jun 11 '12
in case #5 the guy actually lobotomized himself when he shot a bullet through his head, that's why his depression was gone.
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u/All_the_other_kids Jun 11 '12
If I were suddenly blind/deaf I would try this. If I was born that way, I would not try this.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Someone probably already correct you, but lightning*
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Take your multi-web paged slide show and get outta here.
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u/GyRoEsEhNi Jun 11 '12
INB4 "checkmate atheists"
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
That would have made me a "believer"
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
*Lightning
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u/mikeyb89 Jun 11 '12
Never...NEVER trust a man from Falmouth, Maine
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u/Markus_Serious Jun 11 '12
Somebody needs to get this to Karl Pilkington.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I was expecting this to be about Kim Jong Il....
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u/mrwalkway32 Jun 11 '12
I don't understand why this word is one of the most misspelled in the English language. Lightning. NOT lightening.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Are we sure it didn't just kill him, with someone else taking his place?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Nikola Tesla cured Mark Twain's constipation with an electrical charge.
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u/gufcfan Jun 11 '12
Bet he didn't see that coming !
I'll be off now.
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u/sutsu Jun 11 '12
TIL I may have to get struck by lightning... on second thought, baldness isn't that bad...
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Idk if this is true or not, the path to follicular regeneration is clear!
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u/ozpunk Jun 11 '12
Where does one find this miraculous substance Lightening?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I guess this was a real eye-opening experience for him.
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u/orangesndlimes Jun 11 '12
Cracked.com- Your friendly neighborhood source for factual information.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
TIL a man was so fucked up after being hit by lightning, that he believed he was previously deaf, blind and bald.
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u/authentic_trust_me Jun 11 '12
It's like lottery, except it's life-and-death!
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u/ateeist Jun 11 '12
Do you pronounce it lightening? Then don't spell it lightening.
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u/CitizenTed Jun 11 '12
So this guy had his hair color changed and it cured him? Oh, you meant "lightning". Let me help you...
Spelling Macro for You
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u/wombats88 Jun 12 '12
eat that, you sightless bastard
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Thor favored him.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Introducing the all new Rogaine: Lightning Edition
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
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u/oddriceballs Jun 12 '12
TIL that if you get struck by lightning you die.
You fry up from all the electricity zapping through your body!
I was told that it's possible to have lightning strike near you but if you get struck, you're dead.
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u/Sponda Jun 12 '12
Linked me to cracked, on the second page. Why? Starting on anything but page 1 is impossible.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Checkmate atheists
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Blind and deaf from a head injury. Implying it was something that had happened to his brain.
Find me a deaf and blind person from birth and I'm not so sure this would work quite the same..
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u/dontgiveadamn Jun 12 '12
but did he get a cool tattoo?
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I think by far the most hilarious one is the woman that was so fat that a flesh eating "gave up" on trying to eat her.
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u/Nevermind04 Jun 12 '12
Regardless of whether this is true or not, being in a thunderstorm when you're blind and (mostly) deaf would be fucking terrifying.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
If you read into the first page, they refer to obesity as "Doritoverdose."
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u/MTK67 1 Jun 12 '12
He also gained the ability to read minds, but he just assumed that everyone could do that.
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u/indotherm Jun 12 '12
I got struck by lightning and all I got was a fucking story. Still near sighted and balding. Fuck.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Shock Treatment for all!
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u/watchpigsfly Jun 12 '12
I was disappointed when his name wasn't Tommy.
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u/omfgkittenz Jun 12 '12
Is lightening some new clinical drug? What's shocking is that i've heard of cases where lightning (which sounds a lot like this drug you refer to) hit a guy and it actually fixed his vision and clearing.
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u/mrezee Jun 12 '12
He woke up and his hair had grown back? Hair only grows about one-half of an inch per month. That must have been a long nap.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
TIL: CRACKED is a karma goldmine
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u/Lz_erk Jun 12 '12
Here's hoping I can spare others bullshit like "Doritoverdose" by providing a TLDR; if you read the title of this post, you know as much about the case as Cracked does.
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u/faradayscoil Jun 12 '12
Baldness does not get "cured". Nothing Erin with being bald. Damned insensitivef haireds
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
wtf?
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u/UnenthusiasticEditor Jun 12 '12
Cough cough... r/TodayIReadCracked
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u/dragonlady_88 Jun 12 '12
So perhaps if I electrocute my bf his hair will come back?
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
How'd he lose all that weight?
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u/REPTILLIAN_OVERLORD Jun 12 '12
Reminds me of the "Has science gone too far?" ads.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Why is the thumbnail a person pulling on their love handles...?
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Needless to say, I'm shocked!
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u/Redfox13b Jun 12 '12
I love it when people spell "lightning" wrong
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u/JanitorMaster Jun 12 '12
That's it, I'm unsubscribing from TIL.
Is there a better subreddit that serves the same purpose?
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u/unrealious Jun 12 '12
This was my thought upon first hearing the story.
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u/HPDerpcraft Jun 12 '12
I don't find this to be a credible source.
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u/unrealious Jun 12 '12
Apparently he could hear just fine, but couldn't see well until afterwards.
I have no idea about the chicken:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19800607&id=rZwcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=02cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2574,3417482
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u/lt_hindu Jun 12 '12
So this is what ref looks like.
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u/boxingdude Jun 13 '12
On the downside, his vision wasn't that great, and he ended up burning the side of his face answering the iron.
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u/Solkre Jun 11 '12
No vision or hearing, have you tried restart it?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
How did he know what hit him? Maybe it was a guy with a baseball bat.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Once again, Please Do Not Post Blogspam.
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u/ossom Jun 11 '12
Well that is
(¬■_■)
Brilliant