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Teen Struck By Lightning Standing In Garage
WSBTV ^ | July 22, 2010

Posted on 07/22/2010 6:29:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A teenager was recovering from a lightning strike that happened while he stood inside his own garage on Wednesday afternoon.

Stephon Owens, 15, was just about to push a button on the garage door opener when a surge of electricity shot through the house on Bell Meade drive in Douglas County, his parents told Channel 2 Action News reporter Eric Philips.

“They came in here to put the basketball hoop together and ….and that’s when it went through his arm,” said Sabrina Bryan, Owens' mother.

The teenager and his father were working to assemble a basketball net when the storm moved through, according to Bryan.

"It happened so fast. It was just an instant. Just to see the look in his eyes and hear him scream" said Richard Bryan, Owens' father.

Owens suffered no burns or scarring, according to his mother, and was released from the hospital on Thursday."I feel extremely blessed. I mean God left me on this earth. He could have just as easily taken me away so that I could have died," Owens told Channel 2 Action News reporter Diana Davis.

Neighbors living on the street said they saw the storm and then the lightning.

“A big thunder with a big beam. A big white beam of light that went through from the east all the way to the west. When it happened I left my master suite, came downstairs and told my kids to turn off the whole lights in the house,” said Cy Amadi


TOPICS: Outdoors; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: garage; grammar; journolists; lightning
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To: nickcarraway

How shocking!


21 posted on 07/22/2010 7:00:43 PM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: central_va
Did it “sound like a freight train”?

Nope. There was no "woo-woo" or nothin'!

22 posted on 07/22/2010 7:12:25 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism, Communism - it's all shades of black.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom
As for the teen that was in the garage and got hit by lightening, I’m wonder what is the big surprise here.

Well, he could have been on a weight-loss program. /s

23 posted on 07/22/2010 7:14:26 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism, Communism - it's all shades of black.)
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To: nickcarraway

no burns or scarring.. wow.

and how it got in the garage is a good one.. that is some messed up wiring or sumthin’. stuff happens too. freak.


24 posted on 07/22/2010 7:24:45 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: nickcarraway

My brother was indirectly zapped by lightening during an electrical storm while standing barefoot in our garage when I was a kid. He wanted to watch the storm. A strike hit nearby and the charge traveled through the ground , up through the soles of his feet. He jumped about a foot in the air and then ran inside. He never did that again.


25 posted on 07/22/2010 7:27:33 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: nickcarraway
I recall Johnny Carson had a guy on his show years ago who had been struck by lightning several times - 6 times as I recall. He was struck inside his truck, & inside his home while sitting on his easy chair. He has had both his hat & shoes toasted, but he suffered only minor burns from the strikes. It got so bad he would leave his family during a storm to protect them.
26 posted on 07/22/2010 7:42:05 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: al baby

lmao


27 posted on 07/22/2010 7:50:45 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: nickcarraway

maybe the kid should try football instead


28 posted on 07/22/2010 7:51:24 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: nickcarraway
Why was lightning standing in the garage?

To keep out of the rain?

29 posted on 07/22/2010 7:56:32 PM PDT by gitmo ( The democRats drew first blood. It's our turn now.)
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To: Soothesayer9

So does al baby....


30 posted on 07/22/2010 8:02:24 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: NormsRevenge
Lightning can do strange things.

I once worked for a company that had a very large motor shop, machine shop, and welding shop all under one roof. There were steel supports and I-beams for overhead hoist systems all throughout the ceiling. During a heavy thunderstorm one night, lightning hit a power line coming into the building and the guys working second shift said there were lightning arcs bouncing and flashing across the entire ceiling of the building which was probably 300 ft long.

I also have a friend that was driving a light pickup truck in a storm one time with an aluminum ladder lashed to the top. Lightning hit the ladder and blew all four of his tires out instantly.

31 posted on 07/22/2010 8:04:04 PM PDT by 2111USMC
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To: La Lydia
But I make no claims of literacy!

Touché.

32 posted on 07/22/2010 8:15:13 PM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: 2111USMC

It’s a magical piece of the universe, that and cheese. :-}

I hear if ya feel the hair on your neck and head start to stand up, it’s too late.. you’re gonna get it.


33 posted on 07/22/2010 8:21:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: nickcarraway

LOL....


34 posted on 07/22/2010 11:59:42 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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