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Being struck by lightning really brings out the LOLs

Mike Pollitt | Friday 1 July, 2011 09:51

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Strange goings on in Sutton this week.

By an extraordinary coincidence, the pair who were struck on Tuesday afternoon were both teachers – in the same week when hundreds of their colleagues went on strike.

Teaching assistant Tom Langham was standing outside the front of Hackbridge Primary School after a bolt of lightning struck the building, setting off its fire alarm, when he was hit by a second strike at about 1.45pm.

He said he received more than 100 texts and e-mails of support after the incident, with many saying “the strike was meant to be on Thursday”.

LOL.

And here you’ll find an American man who has been struck 6 times by lightning being interviewed by a woman who sounds for all the world like The Day Today’s Barbara Wintergreen.

Source: This is Croydon

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