Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/07/24/lightning-hits-a-car-going-dow.html
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You’re supposed to reach 88 mph to activate the flux capacitor and achieve time travel. This car only managed to summon the dark shadow people with their slow speed.
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Nothing a little SCE to AUX won’t fix.
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I’d love to know the story behind this. Very strange 
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Read some commentary over at Reddit suggesting this wasn’t lightning but rather some sort of fireworks explosion. Lightning strikes don’t usually generate that kind of smoke w/o something sulfurous to burn.
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Flash mob!
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They were returning from their corncob run and the ‘zombies’ came for the instant popcorn.
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Yeah, doesn’t look like lightning at all.
Here’s the thread on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/61hk3x/lightning_striking_a_car_directly/
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Get out!
(Actually, I’m just jealous you beat me to that pun 
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then it gets creepy
Reminds me of something I heard about Russian literature, after any horrible event would come “and then things got worse”.
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traditional Quechua, Aymayra, and Callahuaya protocol demands that people struck by lightning be killed because they offend the mountain spirits.
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Came for this. Leaving with faith in humanity temporarily restored.
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Zombies? That was AAA roadside assistance.
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Maybe a Jewish Orthodox part of town?
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I wonder what they did to piss off Zeus? I mean, that bolt went right for that car, it did not pass go, it did not arc towards the much taller, more conductive stuff around said car…
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You think AAA arrives that fast?
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As I’m told by my Russian friends, all of it.
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Has the footage been confirmed as real? Not a staged piece, and not CGI of some kind? Something about it just doesn’t look right.
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