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Becky survives holiday horror lightning strike [lip and tongue piercings alert]
ic.Berkshire.co ^
| Jul 3 2003
| Ollie Stallwood, Reading Chronicle
Posted on 07/05/2003 8:59:55 AM PDT by aculeus
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posted on
07/05/2003 8:59:55 AM PDT
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aculeus
To: aculeus
Given some of the places that get pierced, it could have been a lot worse.
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posted on
07/05/2003 9:01:55 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
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To: aculeus
To: Tijeras_Slim
Given some of the places that get pierced, it could have been a lot worse.
>^>^>^>ZOT!>^>^>^> Mmm, that felt good!
To: mountaineer
I know him! His name is Van De Graff isn't it?
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posted on
07/05/2003 9:07:50 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
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To: aculeus
What exactly does a "special service agent for Virgin" do, anyway?
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posted on
07/05/2003 9:08:03 AM PDT
by
AF68
To: aculeus
Nothing like having your tongue turned into a bacon strip.
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posted on
07/05/2003 9:09:05 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Bumperootus!)
To: aculeus
ZOT!
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posted on
07/05/2003 9:10:06 AM PDT
by
gitmo
(Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.)
To: aculeus
This storoy begs the question: did she subsequently remove the metal paraphrenalia -- or not??? If not, I hold no sympathy for this bimbo.
To: gitmo
I guess Barney has gone punk on us...
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posted on
07/05/2003 9:12:21 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
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To: AF68
"What exactly does a "special service agent for Virgin" do, anyway?"
Virgin is an airline. Not sure if it was named to shock, or named after Elizabeth I, the virgin queen, as is Virginia.
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posted on
07/05/2003 9:12:54 AM PDT
by
jocon307
(Enough is enough, and that's too much - Pearl Gould)
To: mountaineer
Lovely. All he's missing are the copper neck-stretching rings and the plate in his lower lip.
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posted on
07/05/2003 9:12:58 AM PDT
by
AF68
To: jocon307
Virgin Airlines is owned by Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Records.
To: jocon307
Not sure if it was named to shock, or named after Elizabeth I, the virgin queen, as is Virginia.It is rumored, even to this day, that Miss Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and Ann Bolyn, didn't miss near as much as some people assumed she missed.
In other words, Virgin Queen was probably just an honorary title.
I hope the gal hit by lightning only had mouth piercings. And I trust she's discarded them by now, unless the lightning welded them in place.
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posted on
07/05/2003 9:56:08 AM PDT
by
Ole Okie
To: aculeus
Lucky she didn't have braces in her mouth.
To: afraidfortherepublic
This storoy begs the question: did she subsequently remove the metal paraphrenalia -- or not??? If not, I hold no sympathy for this bimbo. Lightning that has just jumped 2000 feet through the air is not going to care whether your body has a little metal or not in it. She would have been hit even if she had no metal within 100 yards of her body.
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posted on
07/05/2003 9:57:50 AM PDT
by
jlogajan
To: aculeus
The 26-year-old special service agent for Virgin at Heathrow is still shaken and recovering at her west Reading home after the lightning bolt zeroed in on her lip and tongue piercings. This is typical pig ignorant media reporting. Lightning is not "attracted" to metal. Lightning is just trying to follow the path of least resistance to ground. After breaking down normally non-conductive air, thousands of feet worth, a tiny bit of metal in the path makes no difference.
She was hit because she was standing in the path where lightning was going to strike anyhow. It had nothing to do with her, or any small amount of metal in the vicinity.
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posted on
07/05/2003 10:02:57 AM PDT
by
jlogajan
To: jlogajan
Yes, you are right, of course. It has surprised me how many people actually DO get struck by lightening. I recall hearing some stories people who had their sight or hearing being restored after such an event. And I remember a woman in NYC who was in a phone booth which got struck by lightening, she was killed. Scary, you wouldn't think that would happen in such an urban environment.
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posted on
07/05/2003 10:30:54 AM PDT
by
jocon307
(Enough is enough, and that's too much - Pearl Gould)
To: aculeus
You're grounded!
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posted on
07/05/2003 10:34:56 AM PDT
by
ChefKeith
(NASCAR...everything else is just a game!)
To: AF68
Very PC of you not to mention the bone through the nose.
Not that there appears to be room for it.
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posted on
07/05/2003 11:38:57 AM PDT
by
lambo
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