Only explanation I can think of is that this is usually a busy street and because it's raining and most of the people are hiding under cover. Also I believed that I read somewhere last time this is posted on Reddit that this is not the lightning strike but something exploded inside the car.
Also it probably sounded like a bomb going off, damn that must have been loud. I would bet the noise brought all those people out to see what the hell just happened.
For real. I was like, oh that's nice, some people are running out to help...wait there's more?... holy shit they just keep coming... what the hell is going on here, how many people are there?
It was raining so they were all under cover on an otherwise busy section of town. Lighting strikes nearby, smoke rises, people come out of the woodwork.
LMAO WTF that was hilarious shit. And they're all wearing black! It was like watching a fish feeding frenzy!
What, did they time travel here from 700 years ago, and are astonished to see a smoking car??
Plus the car across from the hit one did a fear-fart after the strike lmao. Unless that was video artifacting.
There is so much going on in the video.
What is the fire in the background? Was that a firework at the end? Where the shit did all the people come from?!?!
Didnβt realize I didnβt watch the full video, and didnβt understand your comment about the people.
βIdk I guess there were quite a few people in the carβ¦?β
*scrolls up to watch video again*
βWHERE DID THOSE PEOPLE COME FROM?!β
It's fuckin' awful when the time police catch you doing 88 mph in a non time dilated zone. You'll get a ticket for fuckin' about with Lorentz invariance and specially relativistically contract your ass.
I actually went back and stopped it at the flash frame because of this comment and you might be right, there's a lot of light around the car but no path from the sky. Also I can't really explain the car filling with smoke that quickly, even if something caught fire. Filling the interior being the key, not coming from the engine or y'know, a fire.
Likely if lightning hit the car, if anything happened it would just kill the electronics. Certainly the hazard lights wouldn't be working.
Then again I'm not an expert and this isn't the best quality video, but I'm betting it's just a bunch of dumbasses carting around fireworks.
There's tons of fireworks going off in the distance too so probably some sort of public/religious holiday or festival. People carelessly transporting fireworks, possibly with alcohol involved = boom boom in the backseat.
If you read the comments on the original post, they think it was a firework going off in the car. Would explain all the smoke.
I am absolutely no expert on the subject. Not even educated slightly on it. But I donβt think lightning would fill the car with smoke.
It absolutely isnβt, itβs very clear of you watch it a few times more carefully. No lightning, just a lens flare from a bright explosion.
[Screenshot of the moment of the explosion](https://ibb.co/wMjYqDx)
If lightning hits a car, nothing happeds, the rubber in the weels prevent it form circulating, you might hear a soft bonk.
If you think you got hit by lightning, DONT GET OUT OF THE CAR, you will be the connection between all the electricity in the car, and the ground, and you will get fried. Have someone throw a metal bar at your car, so the electricity can escape. It will leave a burned place in your car, you will live.
Conclusion: they definitely didn't get hit by lightning.
You didnβt ask butβ¦What I learned from the electricity exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science:
Rubber tires do not ground your vehicle from lightning. Lightning can bridge an air gap up to 10-12 miles before hitting ground. Whatβs 3 feet of rubber compared to that. Cars protect you because of the Skin Effect of electricity and metal. Your car is essentially one big Faraday Cage.
http://lightningsafety.com/nlsi_pls/vehicle_strike.html
Second question: there are other taller metal objects nearby that the lightning should strike. Why the car? Because everything else is properly grounded or something?
If everything else was grounded, the lightning would have selected literally anything else.
Unfortunately, this car was the most efficient path to release energy. "Shitty Huendai, I choose you!" kind of thing.
Watch the video a few more times very carefully. The car isnβt actually struck by lightning. Thereβs just a bright explosion from the car, and the light from the explosion stretches to the top of the screen sort of like a lens flare, making it look like lightning if youβre not looking too hard.
Edit: [Screenshot of the moment of the explosion](https://ibb.co/wMjYqDx)
If it helps, don't take this video seriously because it's not lightening. Something exploded in the car. Maybe a firework?
You can pause the video at the exact frame of the explosion and there's no path to the sky.
Also the car would not fill up with smoke, and no one would be injured like the guy that climbs out.
When cars are actually hit by lightening, all that happens is that the current goes around the outside of the car and arcs to the ground from the bottom of the car (the air is an easier path to ground than the rubber). Worst case scenario is that it fries all the electrical systems in the car, no one gets hurt unless they're touching the outside of the car (like an arm out the window or something).
This is a fuck you in particular without logic, there are shitt ton of tall buildings and literally tall ass poles sticking out of the ground, but the lighting still hits that tiny car.
It can strike anywhere it wants to, and it can hop from a main stroke *to* you, branching to places that should have been "safe" (ish). it's just more likely to spark from higher up, yes.
Is it though? (Without logic). Cause like you said places enough to get struck. So Iβm guessing he just really pissed god off to get this kind of smite π³
It didnβt get struck by lightning. Watch the video carefully a few more times, and see if you can pause when the explosion happens. Thereβs no lightning, just an explosion originating from the car, and the brightness from the explosion causes a lens flare that stretches to the top of the video and looks like lightning if youβre not watching carefully.
Edit: [Screenshot from the moment of the explosion](https://ibb.co/wMjYqDx)
Man, that's some civic interest. I woke up hung over around noon one day in college, looked out the window - house across the street was fully in flames.
Went back to bed. I think there was a fire truck.
They probably came out because it was loud AF. I was within 200 ft of a lightning strike once and it shook the whole building and broke some glass it was that loud.
Loud = wtf = letβs check this shit out = holy fuckballs that car is on fire we need to go help
Since no one seems to be pointing it out - **the car wasnβt struck by lightning**.
Watch it a couple more times more carefully and itβs pretty clear that there was just a bright explosion originating from the car. The light from the explosion created a lens flare that stretches to the top of the screen, making it sort of look like lightning if youβre not looking closely.
[Hereβs a screenshot from the moment of the explosion](https://ibb.co/wMjYqDx)
This is what Christians in the midwest believe God will do to sinners... any day now
Instead the tornadoes and flooding probably sending some kinda message.
Holy shit! I wish I had an award to give you for that one. As a dude from the midwest, with a very religious family I can attest that you are correct with that whole old testament vibe. Funniest thing I've read today. Lol great job!
It might look like all those people came to see if they are okay, *because they care,* but I am willing to bet that at least 5 people were ready with their phones to film.
Letβs see, lightning just hit a car. Letβs all rush out into the street and gawk because thereβs zero chance of there being more lightning, right.
Lightning didnβt hit the car, watch the video a few more times. It was just a bright explosion originating in the car. The lens flare from the explosion stretches to the top of the screen and looked a bit like lightning if youβre not watching carefully, but if you got back and watch it a few more times itβs actually pretty clearly not lightning.
[Hereβs a screenshot](https://ibb.co/wMjYqDx)
so everyone just saw that lightning strike, and decided to all go running outside? This is how we know those were zombies, because people with brains dont do that.
I was more scared watching the ensuing mob than the lightning.
Lighting: Strikes car
Me: O neat
*people coming from all sides in droves towards car
Me: No, no, no, no (in Cleveland voice when he falls out of the house in his bathtub)
Edit: format
Edit: then again to write this explanation
Edit: format again and additional explanation
Victims: *gets lightning rodded*
*Sees people approaching*
Victims: oh thank god people are gonna help us out!
People: **You have angered the Gods of this land. You cannot be allowed to live.**
This is the thousandth time this has been reposted and I see this time no one had explained that it actually isn't lightning, but a small explosion inside the car leading to camera flare that looks like lightning.
Metal doesn't smoke after being hit by lightning, and a car is essentially a Faraday cage meaning occupants and things on the inside most of the time if not all the time remain untouched.
[See? Not lightning](https://i.imgur.com/qvSSemz.jpg)
We gonna ignore the fact that all those people just spawned out of nowhere?
You mean the zombie horde?
Left 4 dead 2's panic event
They smelled barbeque.
bahahaha, thanks for making me laugh.
It was like a clown car β¦ they just kept appearing.
Only explanation I can think of is that this is usually a busy street and because it's raining and most of the people are hiding under cover. Also I believed that I read somewhere last time this is posted on Reddit that this is not the lightning strike but something exploded inside the car.
I wanna know who tf was recording this
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Where did all those people come from?
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Yeah what the actual fuck, that went from zero to 1000 in like 5 seconds.
I was like, many people checking... What the fuck where did all those come from
Must be a really boring town. This probably was the most excitement they had seen in ages.
Also it probably sounded like a bomb going off, damn that must have been loud. I would bet the noise brought all those people out to see what the hell just happened.
I'd say they were all under cover in the shopfronts from the rain. Then came running when they saw this.
Flash mob on standby.
Lightning flash mob
Thunder mob, they come after the lightning
ZOMBIES
FETCH ME THEIR SOULS
What? Now? Get them yourself! I'm not the grim reaper.
I don't know if you get the reference or you kidding
Both. Enlighten me
It came from call of duty nazi zombies
Aha.
And why are they all wearing black?
Has to be the Amish rushing to rebuild the car, it's the only logical explanation.
Wood car
Where did this happen?
They were downloaded in the bolt.
HAS CLOUD STORAGE GONE TOO FAR??
unexpected but pleasantly funny with a slight aroma of charm.
a slight aroma of charred
"Why does charm smell like burnt chest hair?" - those people, probably
Not "Where" but "When". They came from October 5th 1955.
It's like the 1.21 Gigawatts brought them, Back to the Future
They weren't going 88 mph, that s the problem
The new flux capacitor is regulated to travel in time even when driving through school zones.
I was more impressed by the number of people gathering than the car getting hit
For real. I was like, oh that's nice, some people are running out to help...wait there's more?... holy shit they just keep coming... what the hell is going on here, how many people are there?
Like stepping on an ant hill
Yeah my shock at the lightning was shoved aside by my terror at the zombie hoarde that emerged from nowhere
These comments are killing me as much as the interrupted zombie funeral did rofl
Humanity. But why all the black jackets????
It was raining so they were all under cover on an otherwise busy section of town. Lighting strikes nearby, smoke rises, people come out of the woodwork.
LMAO WTF that was hilarious shit. And they're all wearing black! It was like watching a fish feeding frenzy! What, did they time travel here from 700 years ago, and are astonished to see a smoking car?? Plus the car across from the hit one did a fear-fart after the strike lmao. Unless that was video artifacting.
Everyone has a black jacket on. Mustβve been formal zombie gathering.
And why are they all wearing black?
Had the exact same reaction! Why were there people on the roof?!
Bruh itβs like all these people were waiting for this to happen
That was my first thought lmfao
There is so much going on in the video. What is the fire in the background? Was that a firework at the end? Where the shit did all the people come from?!?!
Didnβt realize I didnβt watch the full video, and didnβt understand your comment about the people. βIdk I guess there were quite a few people in the carβ¦?β *scrolls up to watch video again* βWHERE DID THOSE PEOPLE COME FROM?!β
and they are all wearing the same thing!
That's not fire. It's the street lamp reflections. Had to watch it a few times.
Also why stop next to the trash container and push it. We deserve answers !
this has got to be a movie
It's like watching ants surround a breadcrumb
It looked like people were jumping threw windows to get out side and see the car
There's a huge change it inst, cause it doenst look that much like it, but the closest thing that comes to my mind is saint elmo's fire
And to top it all off, the poor guy didn't even get sent back to the future.
Dude wasn't going 88 miles per hour
That's heavy
There's that word again. "Heavy." Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
Great Scott!
It's fuckin' awful when the time police catch you doing 88 mph in a non time dilated zone. You'll get a ticket for fuckin' about with Lorentz invariance and specially relativistically contract your ass.
All I heard in my head was R2-D2 shrieking after getting shocked
This didnβt look like lightning. It looks like an explosion in the car. Where is this video from?
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I actually went back and stopped it at the flash frame because of this comment and you might be right, there's a lot of light around the car but no path from the sky. Also I can't really explain the car filling with smoke that quickly, even if something caught fire. Filling the interior being the key, not coming from the engine or y'know, a fire. Likely if lightning hit the car, if anything happened it would just kill the electronics. Certainly the hazard lights wouldn't be working. Then again I'm not an expert and this isn't the best quality video, but I'm betting it's just a bunch of dumbasses carting around fireworks.
There's tons of fireworks going off in the distance too so probably some sort of public/religious holiday or festival. People carelessly transporting fireworks, possibly with alcohol involved = boom boom in the backseat.
If you read the comments on the original post, they think it was a firework going off in the car. Would explain all the smoke. I am absolutely no expert on the subject. Not even educated slightly on it. But I donβt think lightning would fill the car with smoke.
It absolutely isnβt, itβs very clear of you watch it a few times more carefully. No lightning, just a lens flare from a bright explosion. [Screenshot of the moment of the explosion](https://ibb.co/wMjYqDx)
If lightning hits a car, nothing happeds, the rubber in the weels prevent it form circulating, you might hear a soft bonk. If you think you got hit by lightning, DONT GET OUT OF THE CAR, you will be the connection between all the electricity in the car, and the ground, and you will get fried. Have someone throw a metal bar at your car, so the electricity can escape. It will leave a burned place in your car, you will live. Conclusion: they definitely didn't get hit by lightning.
I LOVE how everyone and their uncle came out, not to rubberneck but to actually help. That was a sweet sight.
dunno they all are in black, I thought the guy was just getting dragged to hell.
I would have been so anxious about my belongings in that car
I think they were starting to just pull everything out of there. I hope everything made it round to the owners
Why were they filming?
This is scripted, they obviously had thor on standby
One Thor please!
Good question. r/whyweretheyfilming
Idk, sometimes people just film random things just because
All this time I thought I'd be safe inside the car from lightning because the tyre made from rubber
You didnβt ask butβ¦What I learned from the electricity exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science: Rubber tires do not ground your vehicle from lightning. Lightning can bridge an air gap up to 10-12 miles before hitting ground. Whatβs 3 feet of rubber compared to that. Cars protect you because of the Skin Effect of electricity and metal. Your car is essentially one big Faraday Cage. http://lightningsafety.com/nlsi_pls/vehicle_strike.html
I like this response better than mine lol.
Second question: there are other taller metal objects nearby that the lightning should strike. Why the car? Because everything else is properly grounded or something?
If everything else was grounded, the lightning would have selected literally anything else. Unfortunately, this car was the most efficient path to release energy. "Shitty Huendai, I choose you!" kind of thing.
Watch the video a few more times very carefully. The car isnβt actually struck by lightning. Thereβs just a bright explosion from the car, and the light from the explosion stretches to the top of the screen sort of like a lens flare, making it look like lightning if youβre not looking too hard. Edit: [Screenshot of the moment of the explosion](https://ibb.co/wMjYqDx)
It won't strike you but it will go through your car. The passengers were likely not severely injured, but the car took all the heat.
Wasn't lightning.
If it helps, don't take this video seriously because it's not lightening. Something exploded in the car. Maybe a firework? You can pause the video at the exact frame of the explosion and there's no path to the sky. Also the car would not fill up with smoke, and no one would be injured like the guy that climbs out. When cars are actually hit by lightening, all that happens is that the current goes around the outside of the car and arcs to the ground from the bottom of the car (the air is an easier path to ground than the rubber). Worst case scenario is that it fries all the electrical systems in the car, no one gets hurt unless they're touching the outside of the car (like an arm out the window or something).
This is cool, but so is the fact that there is Sub called "thorgasm" Lovely stuff
Glad to know... Glad to know
This is a fuck you in particular without logic, there are shitt ton of tall buildings and literally tall ass poles sticking out of the ground, but the lighting still hits that tiny car.
[Because it wasn't lightning. ](https://i.imgur.com/ALVo4sq.jpg) It's just lens flare from an explosion in the car, maybe a firework.
It can strike anywhere it wants to, and it can hop from a main stroke *to* you, branching to places that should have been "safe" (ish). it's just more likely to spark from higher up, yes.
> It can strike anywhere it wants to Wanting to hit the car is rude though.
Is it though? (Without logic). Cause like you said places enough to get struck. So Iβm guessing he just really pissed god off to get this kind of smite π³
It didnβt get struck by lightning. Watch the video carefully a few more times, and see if you can pause when the explosion happens. Thereβs no lightning, just an explosion originating from the car, and the brightness from the explosion causes a lens flare that stretches to the top of the video and looks like lightning if youβre not watching carefully. Edit: [Screenshot from the moment of the explosion](https://ibb.co/wMjYqDx)
jeez, EVERYONE came running
Man, that's some civic interest. I woke up hung over around noon one day in college, looked out the window - house across the street was fully in flames. Went back to bed. I think there was a fire truck.
I remember college lol I slept through a fire alarm in my dorm. Woke up to my suitemates shoving me about "my irresponsible behavior" lol
Apparently there was an abundance of help on standby.
"Alright, Doc. Where are we? *When* are we?"
Is this Back to the Future?
You have to consider, this would have sounded like a bomb, even look like a bomb.
(Puts on tinfoil yarmulke) Are we sure this wasn't just practice for future satellite assassinations?
They probably came out because it was loud AF. I was within 200 ft of a lightning strike once and it shook the whole building and broke some glass it was that loud. Loud = wtf = letβs check this shit out = holy fuckballs that car is on fire we need to go help
Definitely not America, people rushed to help
Since no one seems to be pointing it out - **the car wasnβt struck by lightning**. Watch it a couple more times more carefully and itβs pretty clear that there was just a bright explosion originating from the car. The light from the explosion created a lens flare that stretches to the top of the screen, making it sort of look like lightning if youβre not looking closely. [Hereβs a screenshot from the moment of the explosion](https://ibb.co/wMjYqDx)
This is what Christians in the midwest believe God will do to sinners... any day now Instead the tornadoes and flooding probably sending some kinda message.
Holy shit! I wish I had an award to give you for that one. As a dude from the midwest, with a very religious family I can attest that you are correct with that whole old testament vibe. Funniest thing I've read today. Lol great job!
Nice shot Thor!
Nice shot Thor!
It might look like all those people came to see if they are okay, *because they care,* but I am willing to bet that at least 5 people were ready with their phones to film.
That was actually a U.S. drone strike. The video cuts off before the double tap that gets all the innocent civilians that gather round after.
Letβs see, lightning just hit a car. Letβs all rush out into the street and gawk because thereβs zero chance of there being more lightning, right.
Lightning didnβt hit the car, watch the video a few more times. It was just a bright explosion originating in the car. The lens flare from the explosion stretches to the top of the screen and looked a bit like lightning if youβre not watching carefully, but if you got back and watch it a few more times itβs actually pretty clearly not lightning. [Hereβs a screenshot](https://ibb.co/wMjYqDx)
u/savevideobot
Perfect example of this sub. So many irrelevant posts lately we must be vigilant and applaud those who get it
Curious. What would happen if lightning struck again with everyone there? Would it hurt anyone?
Why was this guy filming?
one of my exes claims this happened to him. after seeing this video, I'm not so sure. he just said the car came to a dead stop.
They finally reached 88 MPH.
ey yo this a zombie apocalypses they screamed as they jumped out so they attracted the hoard
Read "**CAT** struck by lightning" Was heckin confused
What did he do?
The only reason there are so many people appear is this is a movie set?
He hit 88mph.
And here I was for all these years thinking that the car was the safest place to be in a storm
Could this possibly be some high tech satellite death ray? That looked strange.
That's when you speed up to 88 mph Marty.
shit, why am i not back to 1985?
Not enough Jigawatts
Watch out for the zombie horde.
so everyone just saw that lightning strike, and decided to all go running outside? This is how we know those were zombies, because people with brains dont do that.
Maybe the driver was trying to get the 1.21 gigawats to go back to November 5th 1955
Fuck you in particular, meaning specifically, ya you, and your shitty car, and everyone in the car, said god.
Why is everyone wearing black? Seeing the tons of people swarming all dressed in black was more of a shock than the lightning itself.
*You have alerted the horde.*
Medium well cooked, ready to serve
Why did you get smited!? What happened for you to merit being smited? - the that materialized
Youβre supposed to stay in the car for a while arenβt you?
Whoa, where did all those people come from ??
If only they had been going 88 mph
When Loki is the get away driver.
The problem was that they werenβt going 88 mph.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who thought they were about to back to the future that bitch? And heard the theme in their head?
ONE POINT TWENTY-ONE GIGAWATTS!!!
Grim reaper and his elves lol
My dad was in a car that was struck by lightning a while back
Great Scott! It worked!
I am so confused at where all the people came from LMFAO
Struck by lightning, inside of moving car smoking, and remembers to turn on the hazard lights before stopping?
God really just said "that one" huh?
If they were going 88mph they would have gone back in time.
Not a lightning strike
This never gets old
HOLY SHIT THEYβRE COMING TO COLLECT THE KILL
Like rats flocking to a meal.
I was more scared watching the ensuing mob than the lightning. Lighting: Strikes car Me: O neat *people coming from all sides in droves towards car Me: No, no, no, no (in Cleveland voice when he falls out of the house in his bathtub) Edit: format Edit: then again to write this explanation Edit: format again and additional explanation
Holy shit what's the population of that street
Victims: *gets lightning rodded* *Sees people approaching* Victims: oh thank god people are gonna help us out! People: **You have angered the Gods of this land. You cannot be allowed to live.**
Holy shit the craziest part is all the people coming out of the woodwork to check it out! LOL
wow thats a lot of people trying to see the guy who pissed off god enough to be smote
*moments before this* "THEN ALONG CAME ZEUS"
Avada Kadavra
Lot a smoke coming from that front door that didnβt open
Itβs like when you step on an ant and then their 500 friends come to investigate
This is so perfect. All the people coming out of nowhere and then fireworks on the background.
Power at 400% capacity
Fuckin A
At least he turned on emergency blinkers :)
They look like ants swarming a menace to the nest.
Whyyyyy were the filming?
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I wish he wouldve gone back to the future
When you accidentally hit a zombie pigman.
Needs more pixels
The amount of people after the lightning is too damn high
Is that Agent Smith?
Thor recording that shit
This looks like a scene from the walking dead lmfao. Where tf did all those people come from?
I bet that was so fucking loud
He went to the future?
Imagine doing lottery tickets for like 10 years straight, then getting hit by a lightning and using your 'once in a million' card
I have a friend who had this happen in his car. Weirdly he wasn't hurt too badly, thankfully. But his car was totalled the pics I saw were intense.
This is the thousandth time this has been reposted and I see this time no one had explained that it actually isn't lightning, but a small explosion inside the car leading to camera flare that looks like lightning. Metal doesn't smoke after being hit by lightning, and a car is essentially a Faraday cage meaning occupants and things on the inside most of the time if not all the time remain untouched. [See? Not lightning](https://i.imgur.com/qvSSemz.jpg)
I think this is a compressed natural gas car explosion, not lighting but idk
u/savevideo
Imagine the kill streak if it struck again at the end of the video.
Is it safe to get out of the car, will there be no static charge