Pfft… They just fucked up and forgot to add the concrete…
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Yeppers…a friend will bail you out if jail…but a best friend will be sitting right next to you in the morning waiting for his gf/wife or yours to bail you both out …just commenting for a friend if this statement resembles anyone living or dead is purely coincedental
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For a split second i was like holy shit look at the compactness of those nugs wheres the trics? then i seen the google eyes and tripped out for a second and then my mind processed the whole thing(Within a couple seconds but it seemed longer)I realized smokie Frankie in the morning with my coffee is a wonderful thing,Far out man
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Singular in 1964, certainly. I’m pretty sure today that would be a plural, The Dead Kennedys.
I have tickets to go see him in Toronto in February.
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In 1964, I was at a week long Boy Scout summer camp during a summer thunder storm. We were all standing in tents watching this seriously torrential downpour when “BOOM,” a bolt of lightning strikes a tree maybe a hundred yards across a field! It was so fucking bright! I think it also was probably the single loudest thing I have ever heard. It was quite literally stunning, and just to be clear, it was scary as hell!
Burnt the shit out of the big ass pine tree that it hit. A bunch of the kids were screaming and crying. It was quite the scene! Thankfully, nobody was physically hurt, but I’ve sometimes wondered how those who were crazy scared have fared though the years, and if that experience had long term affects on their lives.
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I’ve never understood the fear of lightening. Truly awesome, devastating and beautiful. But if you’re going to get hit you can’t stop it and you’ll never know it unless you survive. Mitigate the risk, but don’t fear it.
I can’t claim as I’ve been struck directly, but it hit close enough to throw me into a blackberry tangle. I remember climbing out but not how I got into/ on to the massive thorny bush.
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Up here it’s NG but same deal.
When i was in boot at paris island. We were at the rigke range in the old h style barracks the platoon was sitting in front of me i was tge scribe that day and th DI was giving a lecture when all of a sudden a lightning bolt csme in one door went threw the iron bolts hildingbthe beams together and out the otger door and hit a treee outside…scared tgevfuck oyt of everyone there including the DI he looked at me and i at him and we were like didyou just see that ?
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I had a close encounter with a lightning strike a few years back.
It was evening just after the sun went down and I was working as part of a network team supporting site-operations at a festival and had the early shift with gates opening around 5-AM the next morning.
The wind started picking up after the sun went down and a fast moving summer storm was rising. A co-worker and I went to check on an outdoor wireless access point at a gate before heading to the crew-hotel for the night when the bottom dropped out and the rain started falling.
My buddy and I ducked under the canopy of the nearby OPs shelter/tent set up for the next morning and were joking about smoking a bowl and waiting the deluge out.
Then shit got real.
Up to that point it had just been a lot of water, when suddenly a bolt of lightning struck the utility pole where our AP was hung directly next to the tent, about 20-feet feet away from where we were .
The noise was phenomenal, louder than a gunshot, bigger, like a cannon and all encompassing.
Everything went completely white. I felt it in my teeth. Afterwards as my ears rung and vision slowly returned I could taste what seemed like ozone.
Neither of us was hurt, but both looked at each other and exclaimed something to the effect of “HOLY SHIT” and quickly decided to skip the bowl and head for the cars with their nice rubber tires.
(AHHHHHHHH)
Amazingly the AP mounted to the pole survived, but the switch-port it was attached to in a trailer about 100-yards away was toasted.
I can only speculate the strike hit below the AP at the outdoor lighting fixture and followed the lighting pole’s electrical lead to ground giving our PoE (Ethernet) cable some attention along the route. (?)
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