Two people were struck by lightning. News reported that both survived and are in stable condition.

What's the opposite of a Darwin Award? Something to give people who survive random acts of nature.

The Violet Jessop Award?
Nothing is perfect not even Darwin.
I mean, they walked in the middle of the street with a metal pole raised up during a thunderstorm.

I guess they were dumb but lucky to survive.
- Those are umbrellas, and there are much higher metal poles in the surrounding buildings. I don't think this would qualify for a Darwin award if they died, it's the usual thing to go out with an umbrella in storms.
- They're in a city surrounding by buildings that should have lightning rods. Doesn't seem all that dumb to think it's extremely unlikely to be hit by lightning there.
  
  The video is likely fake.
- their intelligence has nothing to do with it. only whether they kept themselves in the gene pool.

Ouch. Hopefully they didn't actually feel that. I didn't when it happened to me, either time. Conveniently woke up later.

This is just a reminder, that this is more likely to happen than winning the lottery.
- And you don't even need to buy a ticket!
Either time.

You're saying that happened to you twice?
- Yes. Witnesses figured I died each time. Temporarily paralyzed the first time and with a "missing" few seconds, knocked out cold the second time. I try to avoid thunderstorms these days.
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Sullivan#:~:text=Between 1942 and 1977%2C Sullivan,and "Human Lightning Rod".
  
  How about 7
  
  Number 7 is a banger
Did you get burned?
- Some redness and temporarily paralysis, but nothing permanent, unless it's hidden in my brain. Disappointed I didn't get superpowers.

Whoa.

Whenever you hear the intro, you should probably be putting your metal umbrella away... :P

Glad they are alright!

fuck you two in particular

Before reading the title I thought this was a poor quality movie rip

fuck you two in particular

Why were they filming?

You can see this is a video of a computer screen.

Presumably this is from a security camera.

You would totally think "God struck them down" in this scenario, given the right cultural context.

There's a cottage industry that creates fake lightning strike videos. They're usually grainy to cover up the fakery.

Lightning strikes are relatively easy to put into a video. Getting the reflections right is harder though.

I'm not an expert, but the reflections don't look quite right to me. More light in the reflection than there should be in places where we don't see a reflection of the people before the lightning strike.

I could be wrong but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6yQOs93Cgg

I had a feeling it was fake bc the guy in the background didn't react at all. But who knows, I could be wrong too. Just gave me the same feeling.
- I think you are right to be skeptical, especially considering their proximity to a seemingly tall building, but no, it's real.
  
  https://std.stheadline.com/realtime/article/2004688/