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In what sounds like some sort of sick Ben Franklin experiment, a lightning bolt struck a British bricklayer directly in the ear, sending 300,000 volts of electricity through him before exiting through his left ankle. The man lived to tell the tale.Brad Gifford, 38, was out walking his cocker spaniels around a lake when a thunderstorm struck. He and his friend took refuge under a tree when, suddenly, lightning struck Gifford in his right ear, knocking him unconscious and causing his chest to burst into flames.
"The only thing I remember doing is driving to the lake after work on Friday," Gifford said. "I don't remember any bang or being hit." He was rushed to the hospital and treated for shattered eardrums and burns on his shoulder, groin and left leg.
Gifford is now recovering at home, where he is otherwise unaffected by the lightning strike. Too bad. We were kind of hoping he'd gain the superhuman ability to hear people's thoughts.
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Wednesday 05 August
By Heavytoka
Talk about painful, glad to hear he lived.
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Wednesday 05 August
By Dean
Yeah he did the right thing,taking a walk during a storm and hiding under a tree! Kids,PLEASE DO THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THIS MORON DID.
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Thursday 06 August
By lita
YOU are the moron, Dean. It doesn't say that he went walking during the storm. It says he was walking the dogs around the lake when the storm came up. (Sometimes they come up suddenly, without warning.) And not knowing what the terrain was like around the lake? Well it could have been heavily forested with little choice but stand under some tree. Maybe he picked the smallest tree he could find. Please, Dean, use your head for something other than processing feces.
Wednesday 05 August
By tinkerbell
Glad to here he's all right.What a freak thing to happen..
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Wednesday 05 August
By Tiana
The article doesn't say that the man went out during the storm. The way it is written makes me think the storm didn't begin until they were out.
Anyway, I'm glad to hear the man is okay.
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Wednesday 05 August
By pat
He went under a tree in a lightening storm????
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Wednesday 05 August
By zebra365
I wondered about the dog too. The original (Sun) article says there were two dogs, and suggests they were not hurt:
Brad, from Kettering, Northants, said: "All I know is what has been relayed by other people.
"The only thing I remember doing is driving to the lake after work on Friday. I don't remember any bang or being hit.
"I think I got off very, very lightly. There was a bloke in hospital the week before me who got hit by lightning and died.
"I'm just glad I wasn't holding the dogs' leads when I got hit. That would have been the end of them.
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Wednesday 05 August
By shocked
anything can happen when you least expect it. I got electrocuted at work by faulty installed wiring. arm to arm and blew out my thumb. .Today I suffer from seizures and short term memory. amongst other things. I too lived and am greatful everyday it didnt take my life. you just never know when a freak accident may occur cut him some slack...from someone who's been there.
Wednesday 05 August
By gjc
How many times must we be told NEVER to seek shelter under a tree during a lightening storm? Are people really that stupid?
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Wednesday 05 August
By Bigshot
"Shocked" says he got killed by electricity and is able to tell us about it?! Look up "electrocute" in your dictionary, Shocked.
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Thursday 06 August
By shocked
ooopppsss I meant non fatal electrocuted...geez you guys are mean people...have a heart
Thursday 06 August
By patrickbgawne@aol.com
Obviously never had a hot dose of 220, huh? When you burn a handprint into a stainless steel housing it sure as heck ain't just a walk in the park. What else would you call getting lit up like an Edison lamp but electrocution? Galvanization? Electrification?
Just 'cause it says it in Webster, doesn't mean it's necessarily so. I refuse to pronounce the word "iron" as "eye-urn", but that's what Webster says it is. Ironic, no?
Thursday 06 August
By THEKellyHill
How many times do people have to be told to STAY AWAY from trees in a thunderstorm?
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Thursday 06 August
By venusdelycra
Actually, this story says he was already out walking his dog when the storm struck ... "Brad Gifford, 38, was out walking his cocker spaniels around a lake when a thunderstorm struck." It does state more than one dog was being walked ... the "s" on the end of spaniel means the pleural form, more than one. The part I take exception with is the flippant statement at the end of the article ... "We were kind of hoping he'd gain the superhuman ability to hear people's thoughts." Why not just wish he and the dogs had been killed and were coming back to haunt the lake to prove there were such things as ghosts. Geeze! Have a little sympathy with someone who is very lucky to be alive to tell about his accident. And, yes, he was stupid for getting under the tree. The only other thing he could have done wrong was to hold his golf club up in the air while under the tree and defy the lightening to strike him! Now, what about the other person who took shelter under the tree with him ... what happened to that person?
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Thursday 06 August
By VIRMAREGO
When something unintentional or out of control happens, it is call an ACCIDENT. Yes, there are certain times we can try to avoid the possibility of an accident but there are no certainties especially when dealing with mother nature. I agree, cut the man some slack and be grateful he lives to tell us about it and warn others of his experience. I saw my brother struck by heat lightening when I was five years old in Arizona, no way to know it was coming but Thank our Lord we all lived to talk about it 47 years later. My brother does not remember getting burned and hitting the pavement like a log, but we four sisters do who witnessed it. I to this day have a nervous respect when there is lightening present. My brother on the other hand becomes excited and energized by it, no fear at all. A month ago I was upstate NY with friends watching a huge theatre production outside. The skies were perfectly clear when we arrived at the site, halfway through they had to cancel it as a very fierce storm hit, my group ran for cover under a building overhang but we were horrified to see people standing under trees. Panic and fear can make people do things they otherwise would know better to do. Whether it's not knowing the danger, or fear of being out in the open, mother nature can strike at any time and attack those not looking for trouble. Let's just try to make the best decisions daily and stop these horrific tv shows and videos that tempt danger and put ourselves at risk. WHAT ARE WE TEACHING OUR YOUNG ONES WITH THERE?????
God Bless.....
Thursday 06 August
By Al
Was wondering the same thing!
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Thursday 06 August
By mike
the question is to so many of us in this world is the dog ok? to many this may sound odd or a bit off to ask, but watch the movie independence day, it becomes clear. while millions were being obliterrated by aliens a woman and her dog escape death, and the audience cheers when the dog jumps at the last minute to safety. just goes to prove as humans, how off the chain we all are. so i ask, what happenned to the dog?
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Thursday 06 August
By Dean
Lita,your a skank!
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