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Girl, 10, struck by lightning through window

By T.K. Randall
May 11, 2011 · Comment icon 14 comments

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A 10-year-old was left shaken after a lightning bolt hit her shoulder while she was sitting at a window.
Its not the first place you think of at which you'd be vulnerable to being hit during a thunderstorm. "Everybody we've spoken to, the doctors in the hospital, were just absolutely amazed," her father said. After hitting her shoulder the lightning arced in to the floor through her foot, leaving a red mark.
A 10-year-old girl struck by lightning in Merthyr Tydfil has amazed doctors with her speedy recovery. Erin Moran was sitting in the window of her house at King Edward Villas when she was hit in the shoulder on Monday.


Source: BBC News | Comments (14)




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Comment icon #5 Posted by Alienated Being 14 years ago
Not only was she probably scared to death, but it probably demolished her entire shoulder.
Comment icon #6 Posted by Jamajkus 14 years ago
Dont know, but glass should be nonconductive lol... Even if its wet should stay the same...Pretty weird situation
Comment icon #7 Posted by Paracelse 14 years ago
Dont know, but glass should be nonconductive lol... Even if its wet should stay the same...Pretty weird situation My thoughts exactly, unless there was a crack somehow in the glass or between the glass and the frame.. was the frame metallic or wood? If the frame was metallic, was there a crack in the plastic coating? In any case something slowed (?) the jolt.. otherwise she would not have been taken to the hospital, perhaps in the hospital's refrigerated based.. She's a lucky girl to be able to speak about it.
Comment icon #8 Posted by :PsYKoTiC:BeHAvIoR: 14 years ago
Interesting question , was she the conductor or was it something in the room or the window itself ? TiP. I would think she was the conductor. She may have been the negative charged ions, in which produces a ground-to-cloud lightning. So she connected with with the positive charge in the cloud from line of sight to the window.
Comment icon #9 Posted by Purplos 14 years ago
Possibly the window was open and she was leaning her shoulder against a metal screen? Would that attract it to her more? Pretty freaky and a rather interesting scar she has left.
Comment icon #10 Posted by Cryptozological Mascot 14 years ago
Shocking. Electrifying. Illuminating?
Comment icon #11 Posted by allanp 14 years ago
Back in the '50's my mother told me never to go to a window during a lightning storm.
Comment icon #12 Posted by tadpole16 14 years ago
dude shes gunna have super powers! People who get struck by lightning usually cant be around computers and telivisions or else they blow them up. Idk how it works but its true.
Comment icon #13 Posted by terbo559 14 years ago
my mom told me that back in Laos, if you shine a flashlight up in the sky during a lighting storm, then you will get shocked.
Comment icon #14 Posted by Feelingz 14 years ago
dude shes gunna have super powers! People who get struck by lightning usually cant be around computers and telivisions or else they blow them up. Idk how it works but its true. I heard about that. A woman developed Electro-kinesis from getting struck. But, that's rare. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger, in more ways than one.


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