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I was filming a thunderstorm when suddenly lightning hit my hand. I lost my hand and my camera but I survived. I only saved the tape.

Caution: Don't film a thunderstorm!

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Hit By Lightning Caught on Tape

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  • How dumb do you think we are?

    You seriously expect anyone to believe that a lightning strike could destroy your hand and the camera it was holding, yet leave the tape inside the camera completely untouched? Also, lightning is a circuit between the sky and the ground, so it couldn't strike only your hand.

    By Sergei Andropov 1214445367 Reply Spam [+6] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Actually

      Sergei has a point there. It would be a miracle that you are still alive, but it would be even a greater miracle that the tape is safe.
      I believe in miracles so I'll give you five ... stars.

      By ELVIS52 1214475625 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Actually

      Not really anything special to survive that. It's actually rarer to die from lightning than to survive it. In fact, many people don't even have a lost limb. It is odd that the tape survived, I'll say that much. but because it hit his hand that he said was resting on a rail, the hand would have been badly burnt and the current would run out of his hand through the metal rail, rather than through anything else, thus the lack of a second exit wound(usually it will destroy the top of the head and the feet; where it enters and exits the body).

      By Advocatus Diabolus 1214802091 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • So narrow minded

      Do you suppose that maybe he dropped the camera when he got hit? Maybe the lightining shorted out the circuit boards or power supply in the camera.

      The point is that you don't freakin' know. What, is your life so pathetic that you have to try to diminish others?

      By B.C. 1214520063 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • No, just informed.

      A lightning bolt is twice as hot as the surface of the sun. It is also waaaaaaaaaay too fast for him to drop the camera, and in any case, he's already said that the camera was destroyed. Also, anything that could short out the circuit boards would also wipe the magnetic film. There's also the fact that, even in the doctored film, the lightning bolt is depicted as passing in front of the camera, rather than striking either it or that hand it's in. This video is not even plausible.

      By Sergei Andropov 1214634731 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • its real

      my elbow touching the rail of my balcony

      By loup226 1214488411 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Anthony Pittarelli is stunned

    Holy crap, like really. You sir are luck to be alive. Sweet vid thoe

    Anthony Pittarelli

    By anthony Pittarelli 1234088106 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Seriously?

    Is everyone here a fucking scientist all of the sudden? Can everyone do me a favor and shut the fuck up and enjoy the video. No need to deconstruct everything you find on the internet. No one gives a shit if you think it's fake or real. Just watch the damn video.

    By minimiya 1234070781 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Tell u what

    If you post a video with urself and that hand ill belive u:P But it seems odd that only ur hand would get burnt even if u were resting it on the rail, the current would still go through ur whole body.

    By cosmos92 1214951130 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • I got hit

    By lightning too, now i have super powers.

    By turbine000 1214605641 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • no way

    if u expect us to believe that, then i hope to c ur next video, of u jumping through a tornado

    By kaniiver 1214557967 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • hmmm

    honestly i dont believe that happened, wouldnt it fry the camcorder and the tape instantly, how did they recover the footage. i think thats totally fake, he just took a picture of a real victim who got zapped. more then a million volts hit him... if thats what it did to his arm, ur telling me the thin film in the tape was ok, yeah right

    By kaniiver 1214557547 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • mmmmmmm

    100% percent real the injury on his hand is 1005 real ant tha ligthing real so this is a real miracle

    By miki28 1214531453 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • I dont think so

    you would be dead if you get strike by that kind of strong lightning, and you will not save your tape also, everything will burn into ashes include you. Those survivors are strike by spark size of lightning.

    By Mikka86 1214514177 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • soo

    the lighting hit u and which part of ur body did it discharge from?? unless it's stuck in you'which is impossible' it would have discharge somewhere. and that part would have been burnt to, so would the part where the lighting flowed.. learn ur science first.. unless you're telling me the tip of the lighting hit you..

    By kennlim 1214475207 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • OUCH !!!

    i bet that doesn't feel good

    By texasgent 1214442684 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • look like it didn't exit from his

    peni.s... but where did it goes?

    By Snoppy_First 1214439652 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • lol

    bollocks

    By jindivik 1214429974 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • seriosly ?

    O.o

    By MaKeNzY 1214314681 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • pity

    really? this is serious, thought thunder affects metals

    By olakay 1214308480 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Thunder?

      Thunder occurrs when the lightning vaporizes the air. When the surrounding air collapses to fill the void, we get thunder.
      How can any metal be affected by the sound of thunder?

      By Burble 1214348012 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Uhh...

      Thunder does not physically affect anyone. It is just the noise that the static friction creates when a bolt of lightning is released. Thunder affects anything it touches other than rubber. If this man hadn't worn shoes, the lightning could have traveled through his entire body and killed him. That is what is known as grounded. Lightning will find any means possible to reach the ground, it will use anything touching the ground that isn't protected by rubber. This is why your car is the safest place for you in a lightning storm.

      By mikeythemonster 1214328454 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • LOL

      "thunder doesn't affect anyone"... and then....
      "thunder affects anything other than rubber"...
      LOL, he got you sayin it too ;)

      Thunder is actually thought to be the collapsing of a small vacuum that is created by lightning as it passes from the ground to the sky (yes.. lightning goes UP), and rubber isn't the only material that will insulate lightning, it's just the only commonly used one.

      By aelwero_too 1214358210 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Lightning

    should have killed you if it really were. So im not that dumb to believe it unless the hand shows your face too. And that is not what a lightning burn is. And for electronic gadgets strucked by lightning? If the elements inside it got burned, how much more of the tape? No way you can make me believe.

    By rikzky3rd 1214703612 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • No way!

    If you were hit by a lightning, all your body would be like "your" hand...!

    By RaZze.pt 1214434449 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
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