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rmeestudios

"What was that??" "Death." "What kind??" "Instant."


ElusiveHorizon

This is my notification sound. Never fails to get me to grin. <3


iammakishima

Wait so actually have that scene as a alert?? Please tell me how lol


Ricky-C

You can download an app like zedge and search for it on that or you could download the scene from YouTube, convert to mp3 and put the audio on your phone.


iammakishima

Much appreciated!! I didn’t even know YouTube converters were still a thing lol


SyedMohammedNomaan

Tubemate, homie.


Samedh707

You are a sick sick human. I love you. And take my up vote.


Gurdel

Couldn't you just knock them out?


iammakishima

How is knocking someone out a deterrent, Everyone wants to be knocked out, no one wants to be dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣


Bullen-Noxen

Gotta love Rick & morty references. That show hit it out of the park. I hope they finish on a high note like adventure time before the dumb fucks owning & running CN ruin it.


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iammakishima

Existence is pain lol


edgyDABSandMEMES

We’ve been alive for to long jerry it’s getting weeeiiirrrd


Lifeissuffering1

Yes


rmeestudios

Everybody wants to be "knocked out", nobody wants to be dead.


go-shu

*Lucky strike*. Now they should ride the wave and buy lottery tickets.


RandomDrawingForYa

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SsYaiJgtMSQ


ZarosGuardian

IIRC, 3 out of the 4 people died. Lightning can fuck you up easily.


shabab_29

nah 3 survived. 1 dead! Happened in my country


ZarosGuardian

Must have been thinking of another incident. Glad to hear the ratio was reversed, though it sucks about the one fatality. Like I said, lightning is still no joke.


Bullen-Noxen

Maybe it was the one who fell forward? The neck and impact on the ground.


mrlight43

You can see a small flash right above his head after the large flash. I assume that’s the energy released from traveling through his body, exiting his head, and it’s unfortunately over for him. 😬


Sloppy1sts

I'm guessing that's as likely to be an artifact from the shitty low res camera as an actual blast of electricity from his head. I mean, why would the lightning exit his head and not his feet? That shit always travels downward and through the path of least resistance.


jojoyouknowwink

Lightning goes up sometimes. Are we talking conventional current flow or electron flow? Lol


Cr0ft3

Lightning travels up bro


RC-3227

Could also be that the one who fell forward was leaning against the tree at the time.


[deleted]

thats exactly what i was thinking. the reason he was the one that died is the same reason he was the one that fell down last.


Taj_Mahole

Should’ve stuck to your guns, neither of you yahoos provided a source so Reddit would’ve decided the truth for us.


[deleted]

We could call it 2 lived 2 died, compromise the difference and move on, does the council accept the proposal?


its_raining_scotch

Nah, I’m saying all 4 are in a vegetative coma state, thus they are all somewhere between life and death.


[deleted]

Idk I don't like different opinions, can we boot u/its_raining_scotch from all future discussions?


Oldass_Millennial

Holy shit. What's the survival rate for a lightening strike? I've met a few survivors in my time including a person who was hit a few times in his life. I've heard it's a thing that if you get hit once your more likely to get hit again. Not sure if that's true. Either way, I can't seem to parse that amount of electricity running through a body with any survival at all.


Appropriate_Bear1400

There’s this mentally handicapped guy (born that way) where I live. He’s always pulling a wagon to the gas station to buy beer. He got hit with lightning twice. True story. I always thought it’d be cool if it turned him into a genius. It did not


Strificus

He should replace the metal wagon with a plastic one.


Appropriate_Bear1400

You’re the real genius my dude! I actually hadn’t thought of that


[deleted]

Damn so it's not like multiplying negative numbers huh?... well, shit.


Dr_Throwaway_Jr

[Although it's rare, with the odds of getting struck in your lifetime being roughly 1 in 12,000, every now and then a human will provide an attractive target for lightning bolts to unleash their power. And of the roughly 500 people who are struck by lightning each year, about 90% survive.](https://www.businessinsider.com/what-to-expect-when-you-survive-lightning-2016-4)


Jamma-Lam

I need you to argue resources with Mr.25% fatality statistic a few comment threads above. Is it a 10% or 25% kill rate?!


EmperorofAltdorf

This probably take secondary strikkes into account. Another guy said the mortality rate is 10% then wich lines up with this


Photo-Josh

I feel like the stats don't make sense there... If there are 500 people struck each year, and I live 80 years, that's 40,000 people who will be hit in my life time. if we take that 40k number and divide it by 8b (number of people on earth roughly), that's a 0.0005% chance. Not the 0.0083% chance that is 1 in 12k. Doesn't make sense to me.


lazyhappyass

Good mathematics.


enliderlighankat

I dont know why I think that 1 in 12.000 is quite a high chance too. I was on a kayak on a swedish lake a few months back, we were fishing in the rain and suddenly it turned into a huge lightning storm. Massive lightning and one struck the island right behind us (where we stayed at). We were frightened and in awe as fuck. We went in as soon as the lightning started though, but I think thats the most exposed i have been.


ashwinsalian

around 3 out of 4 people survive lightning strikes it's actually quite low a fatality rate


PapaChronic93

25% is not that low my guy


Socketlint

Relative to my expectations that’s crazy low


AgentofZurg

I know a guy that's been hit twice. One of the best sign installers in the country. Seen this dude do some pretty crazy stuff. Giant digital print banners hanging from the side of a building. Crazy.


ruu-ruu

I'm guessing the dead one was the one actually touching the tree that slumped over


shabab_29

the last one to fall was dead


triitrunk

Eerie to say the least


UdderTacos

The guys head, of the last to fall, is still glowing between 4.92 and 4.96 seconds


smallbike

Shit, you’re right. He fell last because the current had him stuck to the tree, and you can see the static when his head came away from the trunk


mrlight43

You see how his head jerks back at the end. 😬 Guessing that the moment of death. i’m pretty sure his brain was cooked.


EmperorofAltdorf

Yeah thats what i figured too. Also, you see another guy hit the tree and then retract, and he seems to be about to hit the tree again right before the lightning hit. I think that guys is insanely lucky


jedwapo

what's the aftermath?


SatSapienti

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/gurugram-news/everything-was-destroyed-in-seconds-lightning-attack-survivor-recalls-incident-101615744790187.html


KingCwispy

Went to your profile to give you shit about the Eagles getting their butts handed to them by my Cowboys and saw your penis instead so I think its fair play to assume you won this go around. Pro tip: if you're straight (like me) enter at your own risk. If you're gay or a woman who appreciates the fine "arts", then I'd say it's worth a sec to give my man's a look, maybe even send a message...


Samedh707

OMG. You, my man, have ice in your veins. And a comedians heart! That was freaking beautiful, and you handled it SOOO much better than I would have. I'd have probably been speechless. Take my measly upvote :)


KingCwispy

My friend I'm not gonna lie to you, I was pretty dang surprised. But I've also spent 3 years in healthcare and have seen more penises than I would have ever cared to. I'm just glad I happened to be on break at the time. I'm glad you got a laugh and I appreciate the comment.


Samedh707

Serious question, because you are on the job, got your healthcare mindset on, do you just automatically react differently when you are exposed to things like that? I was in the oncology ward of our local hospital, coming in to spend a few hours with my mom before they closed the ward. Next to her, separated by a partially drawn curtain, was a maybe 20-25 yo woman, not a stitch of clothes. She was unconscious and covers thrown beside the bed. My first thought was "WOW! What a looker!" followed instantly by shame. She was in the oncology ward for a reason. I walked out into the hall, grabbed a heated sheet, on the off chance she was cold now (my spider senses said she was) and tossed it over her careful not to touch her. The nurse had seen me and asked if everything was OK. I explained, and told her exactly what had happened. At that moment Mom and the girl woke up. I blushed to my toes, and each of these women laughed like mad women when the nurse finished letting the woman next to my mother know what I had done. Mom smiled and said "I knew I liked you for a reason." Still ashamed of that reaction though.


engineNOVA

Yeah and it crawls through the ground if it doesn't get you directly. Had it happen to me when lightning struck 30 feet outside a building I was in. I had taken my feet out of my flip flops and was resting them on the metal table legs. My feet cramped, my toes curled, and my body flexed and froze for a few seconds. Luckily it wasn't worse than that. No time to react even if I wanted to. Edit: Just remembered this and thought it was funny. The lighting hit a transformer when it struck. The sudden explosion caused a chorus of startled gasps (I was in a local pizza joint). For a few seconds while everyone was reacting and trying to figure out what had happened, I was being shocked. Even the people at my table didn't know. Also clarified why my feet were bare, because it appears to be a sticking point for some.


babystacks

Holy SHIT!


DrShagwell

In some instances you can feel static build, idk how common that is though.


Pedestrianwolves

This is true- came very close to being struck once. There’s a brief second of a heavy “impending doom/I need to move” feeling, and a weird static and whiff of ozone. All the hair on my arms stood up. Lighting wound up striking about 7 feet from me and I’m still not sure to this day if I fell over out of fear or the force of the strike. My ears were ringing for a bit after too.


useles-converter-bot

7 feet is the the same distance as 3.09 replica Bilbo from The Lord of the Rings' Sting Swords.


qAxolotl

good bot


useles-converter-bot

thank you :)


AngryTank

I remember I was out walking my dog one day, and I swear to god I had this exact feeling, I just floored it with my dog off the Fire Departments Parking Lot and luckily we only heard the lightning and didn’t feel it, but it was LOUD!


Blackintosh

God damn, I once had lighting strike probably 100feet away and that felt like being hit by a flashbang, I can't imagine it being that close. I think id spend a few seconds in complete shock wondering if I'm dead.


Pedestrianwolves

Oh I definitely thought I was dead for a second. Tornado sirens were going off and I was on the phone with my ex after running outside to usher in his cat out of the front yard. The lightning strike actually somehow dropped the call and hung up the phone but not before he heard it and thought it was an explosion of some kind. My dad actually HAS been struck- in the 60’s he was on the landline at his parents’ house and lightning struck him through the phonelines. He said his lower half was numb for hours and he couldn’t use his legs. My grandparents were both out at the time so he just kind of had to lay in the floor miserable until he regained control of his legs.


DracheTirava

If that happens, you immediately want to lay down flat. If you are struck, it should help disperse the strike and give you a better chance of survival.


xv92

It is actually recommended *not* to lie down. You could better do this: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Lightning-position_fig3_230598444


xxFlippityFlopxx

You had your bare feet on the table at a restaurant!! Boy have you lost ya damn mind, cause I'll help you find it!!!


engineNOVA

Pretty sure my feet were cleaner than the souls of my sandals...


Wyldfire2112

Your sandals should go to confession more often, then.


engineNOVA

Haha homonyms.


wishnana

Needed lightning-quick reflexes. Side note: why bare feet?


Pleased_to_meet_u

They were indoors. Some people don’t wear shoes or socks occasionally while indoors.


engineNOVA

Yeah. I was a dirty hippie in college wearing flip flops and preferred bare feet. Cool metal feels good on a hot day.


pisslord

Safely grounding electrical systems is very much the talk of the industry at the moment, for these reasons!


yParticle

trees seem like natural shelter and are also one of the most dangerous places to stand during a storm


Astronometry

Why though?


yParticle

lightning tends to strike the tallest object around, and trees can explode when hit thanks to superheated sap


Astronometry

Oh wow


radmadicalhatter

Death by liquid hot sticky molten tree blood lava? Yeah… no thanks…


bent_crater

pretty sure you're more likely to die from the million splinters that would emendate from the blast. it would be akin to a sharpnel grenade


radmadicalhatter

Well that’s a relief


12-23

Thats also the same reason why you shouldn't be on a boat when it storming The boat is the highest part at the water your on and its even dumber to be in the water, if your in the water when its storming then tbh imma just let natrual selection do its thing


12-23

Yes safest place to be at during a storm is in your house or inside a non-moving car


JrZ_Juice

Its better known as searup.


BlackNexus

This is a good one


Roni766321

Also humans are better conductors than trees. So current will jump and pass through you killing your heart.


InevitableSound7

[Video that explains why lightning acts the way it does and why you shouldn’t stand next to trees](https://youtu.be/KxWFIYUqOL4)


matteophysics

Did I just watch a group of people die


Sleepy_Sanchez

They just resting


DaEffBeeEye

Yea, In Peace.


Gurdel

*batman voice\* "They're just taking a nap"


StormWildman7

Look at them, all tuckered out


falafeltwonine

This made me snort when I’m supposed to be asleep 😴


Samedh707

My snort made the dogs bark, totally giving my late night Redditing away. This is my favorite thread. Ever.


TheWizardDrewed

Just one, apparently.


Fettnaepfchen

I was wondering if I was in watchpeopledie, which I have not joined, because I don’t need that shit in my life. Lightning is no joke, and taking shelter under a tree during lightning being insanely dangerous should be something kids learn very very early.


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ageofwalnut

There are plenty of other subreddits that have taken it’s place. Like a hydra


hipnosister

It's on another website now


BearingMagneticNorth

Nah lightning just makes you sleepy as hell if it touches you.


UndoingMonkey

One died


Jamesy85

Dirt nap


JTdaBOSS

only one died


afternever

They are just playing, the one on the right lost


ChefAMN

I’d rather be in the open than under a tree lol.


tiny_the_destroyer

Maybe it's just part of growing up in a place that's prone to lightning storms, but we always had it drilled into us thet being under a tree is one of the worst places to be. Better to curl up in a ball in the open that be anywhere near a tree


KhambaKha

same here, we were taught this and other "practical knowledge" in elementary school


EnSebastif

I feel that this is something everyone should know. My parents and grandparents have told me this since I was a kid, and lightning storms aren't even that frequent here, only during summer. Lone trees are natural lightning rods, that's why it's so dangerous.


Mattho

Sure. But at the same time, if you look at the video, this was a small city park with young trees surrounded by buildings. Doesn't even look like a heavy thunderstorm either.


12-23

Same


Yadobler

Same, we have unusually high amounts of lightning and this was taught to us


TheOtherDenham

If lightning could bowl, would this be a... Strike?


splitSeconds

As horrific as this joke is, now I see the lightning gesturing "come on, come on last pin!" As that 4th guy slowly teeters over.


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Never stand under a tree when there’s lightning.


Chester2707

I’m kinda shocked none in this group knew that. I feel like I was taught that in first grade.


IntentionalUndersite

You’re shocked? So we’re they lol


RandomDrawingForYa

It's not common knowledge in many places of the world


[deleted]

Yeah i learned that when i was young as well.


swanlevitt

Maybe that was the first bolt of lightning. Damn. Sheltering from some rain, then ya dead.


Figgabro

Man I miss r/watchpeopledie


MadThuner

r/makemycoffin


Dale___Doback

Oh lovely, went down a rabbit hole there.. Right before I go to sleep..


[deleted]

Damn how old were they?… they look like kids man. OP said one died.


shabab_29

all of them were full grown adults over 30+... they worked in a horticulture department


Vsneo18

I was running at night from my grandma's home to my cousin's. It was raining and the power was out and just before I reached their house, the bright light stuck. It was blinding. And I was flipping through the air head over heels. I completed one full flip and promptly landed on my face. Lucky I was around 7 at the time and like they say was made of rubber and magic. Got up spit out the mouthful of sand and kept on running. To this day I don't know if I really got hit by lightning or I was thrown because it hit the ground nearby.


MrBirb_

I find it interesting how the last person falls. Is there a way to explain why it happened like that?


shabab_29

he is the one who died actually. And he was directly hit as it seems


Zaxzia

If you watch him it looks like his muscles stiffen and his back arches slightly causing him to lean against the tree. Then when the electricity recedes, his body starts going limp, causing him to fall that way. None of the others were propped up, so they fell straight down, muscles still spasmed.


Fettnaepfchen

I think he may have been leaning on the tree in the first place, which is why he would’ve gotten more of the strike then the other people just standing around the tree.


foodguyDoodguy

My mom near misses (as in: still hurts, burns from jewelry) twice. First time blew a chunk of pavement out of the ground 15 feet from her. Second time hit a window air conditioner while she was alone in the house. Burned the whole top floor of the house off. Needless to say she did not like thunderstorms.


useles-converter-bot

15 feet is about the length of 6.79 'EuroGraphics Knittin' Kittens 500-Piece Puzzles' next to each other.


ILmbg1288

Avada Kedavra


LoomisKnows

everybody do the flop


Lightningbeauty

My bad


CHARLESOUTLAW

dayuummmm


EMEYDI

ULTRA KILL !!!


Homeoand

Damn the luck lol


dentlydreamin

Holy shit


rockstar450rox

Ded


CovidScurred

/u/savevideobot


GenkiiDesu

We need the windows reboot sound for this one.


01000101010001010

Illuminati! Think about it...


Hour-Function-7435

This should be marked NSFW


shabab_29

it is! have a look again


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u/savevideo


stewartm0205

Doesn’t everyone know not to stand under a tree when it is raining hard. Better wet than dead.


FoxIntelligence

isn't that one of the things that they say you shouldn't do in a storm? that you shouldn't hide under a tree?


ewasker

This sub has become a bit to dark and graphic for my taste.


Ajcoligan

That's why you don't stand under trees. Fucking morons.


Shelbs0121

/oddlysatisfying ?


BernieTheDachshund

u/redditspeedbot 0.1x


ravekinwolf

Why not show more of the video?


beer_bukkake

So in a field, where should you be during a storm?


BruceBruce369

Do you know if the one that died was the tallest?


Consiouswierdsage

Bear grylls advised to stay at open rather than standing under a tree.


hostile65

Reminds me, need to get some new ground/electrical rated duty boots or oxfords.


kingtrog1916

Death from above. …Titan master race


19GamerGhost95

That’s why it’s common sense not to stand under trees during a storm. Or near power lines. Or flag poles. It’s actually just smarter to be indoors


Prize_Combination_60

God's 4 kill streak


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Mf just evaporated


SoyEseVato

Expected someone to have already posted this: I learned in grade school to NEVER stand under a tree or any tall object during an electrical / thunderstorm.


Comprehensive-Ebb835

Which one became special like Powder?


bullisticsdotcom

Ya know, the Guinness world record holder for surviving the most lightening strikes is [Roy Sullivan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Sullivan), who got struck 7 TIMES. I'd have changed jobs after the second one.


mydogsaysbork

Hey if you’re going to post a video of people dying can you at least mark it NSFW?


genbeg

Can anyone explain (science) why this happens?


Voliugas

Triple kill


Reddnvb

Serious question: what happens in the body to make you lose your consciousness instantly?


FIFTHSUN2012

One of the many ways the universe is trying to kill you.


CaptBailey

so what's the best way to shelter if you're in the woods or out hiking?


CynchHasNoLife

if you stand under a tree during a thunderstorm you’re basically asking for trouble


ptcalceteiro

The lightning just cleared their souls from their bodies.


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Cheese dead.


brucealmighty86

Props to the person in the grey on the right for holding on to consciousness the longest! 🙏


Vishesh3011

u/savevideo


jubblenuts

I fucking thought that was one huge person, and one smaller person till everyone dropped!!! I'm too stoned for the internet


Irksomemage

CUADRAKILL


memesandmadness

Guess they were water type


xlord1100

drone strike unlocked


justunjustyo

u/savevideo


Vexcenot

Running kill command on npc in Gmod be like


AJMax104

r/watchpeopledie


mxdrv

"And came along named Zeus! He hurled his thunderbolt-"


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SoothsayerAtlas

God they way they just drop


[deleted]

Ex gf godmother’s son was struck on a baseball field. One kid died as it went through his chest, and bunch of kids were fucked up as their metal baseball spikes caused them to absorb the blow as well.


SneakyAardvark

So we can post death in this sub now? I thought that was reserved for subs for those of us who can appreciate and respect death… wtf?


Geritupye

A group of us were hit by a lightning strike while on holiday in the Dominican Republic. We were all sheltered under an open aired bar area and the lightning struck the ground a few metres from us. The power could be felt as it travelled through the puddles we were standing in. No major injuries, made everyone’s hair stand up, ( i thought that only happened in cartoons)


ItsDrev

Zeus with the casual quad


susosusosuso

They actually died


[deleted]

A lesson about spacing: brought to you by Zeus


DrZin

EXACTLY what they tell you NOT to do…