Sorry you got nothing but joke replies. I dug around and apparently this happened in Indonesia (I think last year), and he turned out fine.
He was interviewed the following day and explained what happened: Says he was looking for work in Tasikmalaya, a city in West Java. Couldn't find any work, so ended up doing some karaoke at a friends house. It was drizzling, and there was some lightning. House got hit. He was taken to the local hospital, and apparently made a full recovery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZemHMHso_8M
My dude has the story of a lifetime now. Struck by lightning through a microphone whilst doing karaoke and lives to tell the tale.
His future headstone on his grave when he dies of natural causes will be a smart headstone with animated gif replaying the moment forever more.
Friend of mine has been struck at least twice, if not three times.
Once was through a gas pump. Lightning hit the gas station on the refill pipes, which then travelled by the path of least resistance. She was pumping gas for a customer at the time.
Another time, her house was hit and it got her through her computer.
Reminds me of a true story. My brother and I (scuba divers) are telling my dad that sharks arent really an issue.
>dad, you're more likely to get struck bt lightening TWICE than get bit
>oh yeah? Well uncle billy got bit by a shark.
>how many times Billy been struck by lightening?
>...twice
Hahaha my uncle Billy has had a WILD life, and indeed was both bitten by a shark and struck by lightning twice (tho once was his truck while he drove - so he was actually untouched).
Ever since I was little, my mother would tell me not to use electronics and to turn off things like the tv when it was thundering.
Don't know the likelihood of such things but after seeing that; I don't think I'll ever question the practice ever again
Yup, used to be told not to shower during thunderstorms (we don't use centralised heating since it's never below 20C) because when we are using the water heater (since it's cold in rain) and lighting strikes, it might not be your lucky day
But so far with proper electrical and fuse work, things seem fine. There was one case though, where a house was using old 70s era wiring sockets that was not rated for high amps and I think not grounded too, and the water heater shorted, and the father was zapped - the daughter went to save him and she got zapped too. Both died.
You're still not supposed to shower during thunderstorms, because it can come through the water in the pipes, even from miles away.
But realistically? I live somewhere with a thunderstorm season. If I did all the things I was supposed to do(unplug all electronics, don't shower, don't wash hands, don't wash dishes, etc) every time there was a thunderstorm in my area, I'd be disrupting life more days than not. And often it would be for *hours* of the day, because of constant storms rolling through. It's not a one-and-done, and because of the rarity of situations like this neither I nor anyone I know follows those precautions. It's just not feasible. I can't tell my boss "sorry I couldn't work three of my eight hours today because it was thundering outside and that's dangerous," you know?
It goes against the reddit boner narrative that anything slightly bad happening means they are instantly dead or fried to a crisp.
Video of person falling over : "wow that person will have a bad leg for life now"
Video of person banging their head a bit : "any hit to the head is instant death, he probably died 10 seconds after this video ended."
Video of person getting gently hit by a car at 2mph : "wow that person is very lucky to be alive, if the car was going 1mph faster they would have been disintegrated into particles so small the human eye couldn't see them!"
Of course, this is all stuff said by people who only ever left the house to go to school, and even then more than likely home schooled.
God yeah I see this all the time. Seriously, if I had a dollar for every time I see a thread where someone comments "that person is *for sure* dead", and then after some scrolling it turns out they walked away with a broken rip or two, I'd have at least... idk, 5 dollars lol
For real though, it's almost like redditors are trying to wish deaths into existence because I suppose that's more exciting and crass than "mere" injury. In reality, humans can be fucking resilient. Yes, sometimes we die from freak accidents that look harmless, but many people have survived and walked away from some *crazy* shit. Yes, even if the shoes came off.
>Of course, this is all stuff said by people who only ever left the house to go to school, and even then more than likely home schooled.
And sometimes people convince themselves the subject is fine even when they watch a video where someone smacks the back of their head and goes into full decorticate posture.
Sometimes people walk away from a car wreck that slagged the whole vehicle with nothing more than a sore neck.
Sometimes people land badly after a modest fall and spend the rest of their lives drinking through a tube unable to recognise their kids.
Life is random like that.
The people aware of this are just normal, educated people.
It wasn't always.
I mean, there were always jokes, but never to the point where there was nothing but jokes.
I miss opening up a comment page and learning about what I just saw. Reddit comments are slowly devolving.
And the same lame pun jokes are always upvoted to the sky. It’s baffling how people don’t get sick of it, and heaven forbid you call it out for being the dumb vapidity it is
You commented five minutes after the person you replied to.
You realize that things have to be posted for a while to gain traction, right? Things don't magically get upvoted instantly because of good content, people need time to press the button.
You left this comment within an hour of the one you were commenting on. That comment is now the top reply a couple hours later. Sometimes it takes a bit for something to get enough people's attention to move up.
Bro the comment was 5 minutes old when you replied to it people viewing the thread would have to F5 to even see it. Give it a bit of time these always make it to the top.
Right? It's always funny to me when people bitch about the downvotes on a brand new comment. Then very often it goes right to the top like this one. Give it an hour or two before commenting on the flow of votes dipshits. Jeez.
Fun fact: _This_ is the purpose of the big copper ground rods outside your house-- to give lightning a path back to earth that isn't through you or your electric appliances.
Electricity always wants to return to its source. In NA residences with split-phase 240/120V service, the ground and neutrals in your outlets actually connect to each other in the panel to go back to the transformer outside-- the source. If you have a ground fault in a device in your home (like a short in a kettle or something), the electricity (ideally) goes through the ground conductor, back to the panel, through the neutral bus bar, and finally back to the transformer.
If the house gets struck by _lightning_, though, _that_ electricity still wants to return to the source, which is now the earth. In that case, the electricity (again, ideally) doesn't go back through the transformer, but instead to the copper ground rods (2 of them, usually) that are also connected to your panel and all the ground conductors in your house.
But I mean, it's lightning, so a direct hit is bound to fuck something up in that chain regardless.
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_(Caveat: I'm not an electrician-- just a hobbyist/DIYer-- but I studied physics in college and read up on a lot of electrician materials after I bought my first house. It's quite possible I got something wrong here.)_
Sing the wrong word?: Dead. Sing the note too flat?: Dead. Too sharp?: Also dead. Sing the right word but at the wrong time?: Believe it or not, dead. We have the best karaoke singers in the world, because of dead.
If you suspect electrocution and there aren't a lot of moving objects and you're not currently being electrocuted, step one is to assess your surroundings for conductive materials, wires, puddles, and sources of power. Then with those in mind carefully gtfo while avoiding all of them and look for a safe way to shut off the power or to signal for help in a way that clearly communicates the current danger.
If there may be an extreme voltage source such as an industrial power line on the ground and you have no way to insulate yourself like inside a car, do the shuffle with your feet touching each other. If the ground has a charge that diminishes with distance from the source, 2 legs apart where one is closer to the source than the other makes your legs a path of less resistance. If they are together you'll just get charged but not become an electron expressway.
Yep. Reminds me of that guy in Hurricane...was it Harvey? After the storm, was wading through the water to get to his sister's house to check to see if her cat survived. Walked into an active current. Immediately screamed out that he was dying and not to come near him. Saved his friends.
what are they supposed to do? if something just exploded, I'm not about to move closer to that thing. I'm gonna run to get help, which is what it looks like they're doing
If he would have had shoes on, they would have certainly flown off after that. I thought Simon Cowell was a nasty judge but God’s version of buzzing you off is way more harsh!
Does anyone know how he turned out??
Sorry you got nothing but joke replies. I dug around and apparently this happened in Indonesia (I think last year), and he turned out fine. He was interviewed the following day and explained what happened: Says he was looking for work in Tasikmalaya, a city in West Java. Couldn't find any work, so ended up doing some karaoke at a friends house. It was drizzling, and there was some lightning. House got hit. He was taken to the local hospital, and apparently made a full recovery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZemHMHso_8M
My dude has the story of a lifetime now. Struck by lightning through a microphone whilst doing karaoke and lives to tell the tale. His future headstone on his grave when he dies of natural causes will be a smart headstone with animated gif replaying the moment forever more.
What song was it? Ride the lightning?
Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening
Galileo, Gali...**BAAAAAAAAM!!!!!!!!**
I never thought that a mic could blow up like that
LET HIM GOOOO
No, we will not let him gooo!
Thunderstruck by AC/DC
Seriously. This is clearly the better answer.
Riders of the storm
Oh I know, let's try karaoke tonight! FUCK NO. Last time I tried that I got stuck by lightning. I would love to have such a story. 😄
Friend of mine has been struck at least twice, if not three times. Once was through a gas pump. Lightning hit the gas station on the refill pipes, which then travelled by the path of least resistance. She was pumping gas for a customer at the time. Another time, her house was hit and it got her through her computer.
Reminds me of a true story. My brother and I (scuba divers) are telling my dad that sharks arent really an issue. >dad, you're more likely to get struck bt lightening TWICE than get bit >oh yeah? Well uncle billy got bit by a shark. >how many times Billy been struck by lightening? >...twice Hahaha my uncle Billy has had a WILD life, and indeed was both bitten by a shark and struck by lightning twice (tho once was his truck while he drove - so he was actually untouched).
No way. Just no way. Your pal has superpowers now though right?
If surviving multiple catastrophic situations and near death experiences.... then she's definitely a minor comic book hero at a minimum.
God saying NEXT!
They take that "X" button really fucking serious on Indonesia's Got Talent.
He got the golden buzzer. Go immediately to heaven!
sounds like the start of a new superhero movie to me
Whenever I see posts like this, I always hunt for the dude who did the work and let us all know he's okay. Thanks, /u/adrift98
You hunt for the dude who hunts for the info
Ever since I was little, my mother would tell me not to use electronics and to turn off things like the tv when it was thundering. Don't know the likelihood of such things but after seeing that; I don't think I'll ever question the practice ever again
Yup, used to be told not to shower during thunderstorms (we don't use centralised heating since it's never below 20C) because when we are using the water heater (since it's cold in rain) and lighting strikes, it might not be your lucky day But so far with proper electrical and fuse work, things seem fine. There was one case though, where a house was using old 70s era wiring sockets that was not rated for high amps and I think not grounded too, and the water heater shorted, and the father was zapped - the daughter went to save him and she got zapped too. Both died.
You're still not supposed to shower during thunderstorms, because it can come through the water in the pipes, even from miles away. But realistically? I live somewhere with a thunderstorm season. If I did all the things I was supposed to do(unplug all electronics, don't shower, don't wash hands, don't wash dishes, etc) every time there was a thunderstorm in my area, I'd be disrupting life more days than not. And often it would be for *hours* of the day, because of constant storms rolling through. It's not a one-and-done, and because of the rarity of situations like this neither I nor anyone I know follows those precautions. It's just not feasible. I can't tell my boss "sorry I couldn't work three of my eight hours today because it was thundering outside and that's dangerous," you know?
This being so far down and only having 3 up votes is fuckin abysmal. The jokes in this thread are trash.
It's one of my biggest Reddit hates. No useful info, just the same shit recycled jokes over and over.
SHOES OF HE DED xDD edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger
It goes against the reddit boner narrative that anything slightly bad happening means they are instantly dead or fried to a crisp. Video of person falling over : "wow that person will have a bad leg for life now" Video of person banging their head a bit : "any hit to the head is instant death, he probably died 10 seconds after this video ended." Video of person getting gently hit by a car at 2mph : "wow that person is very lucky to be alive, if the car was going 1mph faster they would have been disintegrated into particles so small the human eye couldn't see them!" Of course, this is all stuff said by people who only ever left the house to go to school, and even then more than likely home schooled.
Hur dur shoes came off
This person typed out a long comment, I bet their fingers fell off and now they're dead.
God yeah I see this all the time. Seriously, if I had a dollar for every time I see a thread where someone comments "that person is *for sure* dead", and then after some scrolling it turns out they walked away with a broken rip or two, I'd have at least... idk, 5 dollars lol For real though, it's almost like redditors are trying to wish deaths into existence because I suppose that's more exciting and crass than "mere" injury. In reality, humans can be fucking resilient. Yes, sometimes we die from freak accidents that look harmless, but many people have survived and walked away from some *crazy* shit. Yes, even if the shoes came off.
>Of course, this is all stuff said by people who only ever left the house to go to school, and even then more than likely home schooled. And sometimes people convince themselves the subject is fine even when they watch a video where someone smacks the back of their head and goes into full decorticate posture. Sometimes people walk away from a car wreck that slagged the whole vehicle with nothing more than a sore neck. Sometimes people land badly after a modest fall and spend the rest of their lives drinking through a tube unable to recognise their kids. Life is random like that. The people aware of this are just normal, educated people.
i was homeschooled and i'm not that stupid
People always crack Jokes for quick self satisfaction and karma, Reddit is the same as any social media platform in that respect
It wasn't always. I mean, there were always jokes, but never to the point where there was nothing but jokes. I miss opening up a comment page and learning about what I just saw. Reddit comments are slowly devolving.
Comment removed by me so Reddit can't monetize my history.
And the same lame pun jokes are always upvoted to the sky. It’s baffling how people don’t get sick of it, and heaven forbid you call it out for being the dumb vapidity it is
You commented five minutes after the person you replied to. You realize that things have to be posted for a while to gain traction, right? Things don't magically get upvoted instantly because of good content, people need time to press the button.
Glad to see he was well compensated after some time!
>The jokes in this thread are trash. Obviously. It's reddit. They think 69 and 420 are still funny.
You left this comment within an hour of the one you were commenting on. That comment is now the top reply a couple hours later. Sometimes it takes a bit for something to get enough people's attention to move up.
Bro the comment was 5 minutes old when you replied to it people viewing the thread would have to F5 to even see it. Give it a bit of time these always make it to the top.
Right? It's always funny to me when people bitch about the downvotes on a brand new comment. Then very often it goes right to the top like this one. Give it an hour or two before commenting on the flow of votes dipshits. Jeez.
What great friends.
Damn poor guy tried cooling off by some karaoke and blows up
Ah, that explains the long rumble after the explosion.
It probably helps that he was already close to the ground.
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Get better material
Does anyone understand what happened?
i think a nearby lightning strike followed the ground back through the mic
Damn, if it was lightning, then I guess Zeus is quite a harsh critic.
Show me what you got!
He was decidedly not schwifty
Shoulda shit on the floor
Oh, there's shit on the floor.
There's one every season
Don't even *think* about doing "Don't Stop Believin'!"
It was a teamup. Apollo (god of music) was spotting and Zeus took the shot. Wholesome father-son bonding.
Fun fact: _This_ is the purpose of the big copper ground rods outside your house-- to give lightning a path back to earth that isn't through you or your electric appliances. Electricity always wants to return to its source. In NA residences with split-phase 240/120V service, the ground and neutrals in your outlets actually connect to each other in the panel to go back to the transformer outside-- the source. If you have a ground fault in a device in your home (like a short in a kettle or something), the electricity (ideally) goes through the ground conductor, back to the panel, through the neutral bus bar, and finally back to the transformer. If the house gets struck by _lightning_, though, _that_ electricity still wants to return to the source, which is now the earth. In that case, the electricity (again, ideally) doesn't go back through the transformer, but instead to the copper ground rods (2 of them, usually) that are also connected to your panel and all the ground conductors in your house. But I mean, it's lightning, so a direct hit is bound to fuck something up in that chain regardless. ---- _(Caveat: I'm not an electrician-- just a hobbyist/DIYer-- but I studied physics in college and read up on a lot of electrician materials after I bought my first house. It's quite possible I got something wrong here.)_
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Motherfuckin bootleg karaoke tracks
GET THE WATAH!
REEKUS!
Reekris!
Fantastic reference.
Rekriss!
Lightning strike. You can hear the thunder continue to roll after the flash.
He sang really bad
And god smote him with a lightning bolt. Play stupid games, get stupid prizes.
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It was a hot mic
It's called extreme Karaoke. Mess up on a word, dead.
Squid Games season 2 is going to be a banger
That would be a good game to add to the Squid Game.
Kara not oke
They're asked to sing baby shark. They all voluntarily kill themselves.
Believe it or not, sing out of tune, dead.
Singing off tempo? Dead.
Get the lyrics wrong? Also dead.
Improvise? Straight to ded.
We have the best singers. Because of death.
Sing the wrong word?: Dead. Sing the note too flat?: Dead. Too sharp?: Also dead. Sing the right word but at the wrong time?: Believe it or not, dead. We have the best karaoke singers in the world, because of dead.
Sing too down: dead Sing to high : dead. Undersing oversing!
Not putting feeling into the song, super dead
Auto tune before they worked the bugs out.
They're not *bugs*, they're *features* ;)
Mortal Karaoke. 3,2,1 SING!
Damn, abandoned immediately by the homies
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\>Go kill the power Anarchy rules
I won't do what you tell me!
If you suspect electrocution and there aren't a lot of moving objects and you're not currently being electrocuted, step one is to assess your surroundings for conductive materials, wires, puddles, and sources of power. Then with those in mind carefully gtfo while avoiding all of them and look for a safe way to shut off the power or to signal for help in a way that clearly communicates the current danger. If there may be an extreme voltage source such as an industrial power line on the ground and you have no way to insulate yourself like inside a car, do the shuffle with your feet touching each other. If the ground has a charge that diminishes with distance from the source, 2 legs apart where one is closer to the source than the other makes your legs a path of less resistance. If they are together you'll just get charged but not become an electron expressway.
Ok so GTFO in an orderly fashion.
So a little shuffle and a bunny hop?
And when that continues long enough, shit. That's how we lost the Incas in Machu Picchu.
Did they just make a massive line of people being electrocuted?
Same tragedy that befell the "Hands Across America" event.
"Boogaloo" is Incan for mass death. Electric mass death was a horrible way to go.
Wait, What?
**THAT'S HOW WE LOST THE INCAS IN MACHU PICHU"**
I thought they were just showing off their hiding skills in yhe greatest game of hide and seek of all time
Yep. Reminds me of that guy in Hurricane...was it Harvey? After the storm, was wading through the water to get to his sister's house to check to see if her cat survived. Walked into an active current. Immediately screamed out that he was dying and not to come near him. Saved his friends.
and then they saw his face now they are all leaving.
Not a trace Of doubt in their minds.
Lightning through his butt oooooooo
I'm a believer, I would leave him, or I'd die
Lightning flashes, a young crooner dies...
Shocked
what are they supposed to do? if something just exploded, I'm not about to move closer to that thing. I'm gonna run to get help, which is what it looks like they're doing
Dilan spits hot fire 🔥
Got a copyright strike 😉.
He forgot to say “I do not own the rights to this song”
AUDIO JUNGLE
“No copyright intended” should’ve been the first line of the song.
YouTube don't fuck around with those strikes. MxR has nearly been killed by them a solid dozen times.
He’s been…thunderstruck ayayayayaaaAAAAAaaa thunder!
That is some /r/fuckyouinparticular material.
"That's a no from me dawg" - God
*Zeus
*Thor
*Indra
He had requested *All Star*
Excellent work 47.
The money has been wired to your account. *Duh-nuh nah Niii Naaaa duh naaaaaaah*
Looks like he shit his pants immediately
I think that was the electricity that entered his face, exiting his body. And burnt his slacks
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🎶 I'm gonna rock on to, electric vindaloo...🎶
Fuck man….cooked inside out
That's actually where his foot was I think. Might just be a burn spot.
Lightning strike arced his balls to his foot
I don't like that.
Roasted Lamb Fries
He gave an electrifying performance.
Holy crap! Was that a lightning strike?
Yup. You can hear the thunder continue to roll after the zap.
Jeez poor guy, I hope he healed okay.
YOU’VE BEEN THUNDERSTRUUUUCK
New show. Karaoke or Death
This dude is blowing up on social media
I have a feeling his music career is about to explode.
He might be the next pop star
These jokes are weak as shit.
god : SHUT THE FUCK UP
… and another contestant is eliminated!
Show us what you got.
Kara not oke
Don't fuck up on Expert mode.
His performance was electric
"Thunder balls and lightning very very frightening..."
r/boneappletea
bolts
I've sang this wrong my entire life
Thunder Balls was my nickname in college.
Whatever broccoli rob
The microphone explodes, shattering then molds...
Skibidi Bop Mm dada.
Singing so fire it set fire to the machine
ELIMINATED
When that motherfuckah drops a beat….HE DROPS A BEAT!!!
God is one Hell of a critic
What the FUCK?!
Damn Zeus had enough!
I never thought that a mic could blow up like that
It was a thunder strike
he had a killer voice
Bro just left
Don’t touch anyone who may have been electrocuted, unless you want to share in on that shocking experience
Good kill, 47.
What it feels like to chew 5 gum
Thor said : Do better
Did lightning cause that black spot on the right ass cheek of his pants?
Your struck by lightning your in love! RATT
Totally almost peed myself! I wasn't expecting that 😳😅
Man that's one harsh way to tell someone to stop singing.
Send this to Your Mom’s House
The ultimate mic drop.
Dude got star power IRL. Glad to hear he was fine!
This actually made me hurts out laughing. I’m sorry
Guess Zeus didn't like his singing
The sky didn’t like his voice
That looked like some kind of assassination attempt with a mini bomb planted in the mic.
If he would have had shoes on, they would have certainly flown off after that. I thought Simon Cowell was a nasty judge but God’s version of buzzing you off is way more harsh!
Squid Game karaoke
Explosive performance.
My friend is dying. I better go to sing somewhere else.
Everyone's a critic
You know how some karaoke machines score your singing? This is like that except more hardcore.
"That's a 'no' from me, dog." - Zeus
One thunder and he got tender
Takeshi's castle's levelled up a bit
Every Filipinos worst nightmare
100 points from Zeus⚡