Girl's miracle escape from lightning strike
A Russian teenager survived a lightning strike which was so powerful it vaporised a gold cross on her neck.
The bolt hit Marina Motygina, 16, from Ekaterinburg in western Russia on the top of her head and seared through her body into the ground.
The necklace she had been wearing was 'atomised', leaving burns in the shape of a cross on her neck, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported.
Only a couple of links of the chain could be found.
A doctor at the local hospital who treated her said: "It is a miracle she has survived. She is fine now but will be staying in hospital for another two weeks.
"But she will have deep scars on her neck where the cross was for the rest of her life."
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Wow! that is a miracle
Now she's marked forever by that burn that looks like a cross. Expect the fanatics to start making their vigils to touch her any day now. 
QUOTE(coldethyl @ Jul 23 2006, 02:45 PM) [snapback]1280638[/snapback]
Now she's marked forever by that burn that looks like a cross. Expect the fanatics to start making their vigils to touch her any day now.
If she has a kid soon they'll be calling it the second coming
People have survived lightning strikes before...nothing new. Glad she's alive.
QUOTE(Avinash_Tyagi @ Jul 23 2006, 06:58 PM) [snapback]1280877[/snapback]
If she has a kid soon they'll be calling it the second coming
Yeah just what we need.
QUOTE(frogfish @ Jul 23 2006, 09:39 PM) [snapback]1281007[/snapback]
People have survived lightning strikes before...nothing new. Glad she's alive.
Yeah I know but because she was wearing that necklace every extremist out there is going to say it saved her because it burnt the image on to her. Good grief. I can hear them already.
QUOTE(coldethyl @ Jul 24 2006, 10:27 PM) [snapback]1281917[/snapback]
Yeah just what we need.
Yeah I know but because she was wearing that necklace every extremist out there is going to say it saved her because it burnt the image on to her. Good grief. I can hear them already.
That's exactly what I thought as I was reading this
QUOTE(Anvil @ Jul 24 2006, 06:00 PM) [snapback]1281986[/snapback]
That's exactly what I thought as I was reading this
Great minds think alike.
You know if she was really lucky she wouldn't have been hit by lightning at all.
QUOTE(AtticusBlueprint @ Jul 25 2006, 01:27 PM) [snapback]1282819[/snapback]
You know if she was really lucky she wouldn't have been hit by lightning at all.
Too true.
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