Brush with death...

[Karlos]

Blimey dude!

Were you the only tall thing in a wide radius? Sounds like it struck nearby. There's enough charge running through the ground where you are standing to stun you. Apparently it happens to cattle a lot (or so a friend tells me).

[Karlos]

So, what are the chances that on developing the images, he finds a quirky self potrait of himself resembling a dark skeleton at the centre of a dazzling white glow, complete with electric blue corona and fractured tendrils of lightning streaming outward in all directions?

[Karlos]

@falemagn

Really, if you are going to be precise to the nearest metre per second, you better start factoring in the effects of the air density, temperature and any prevailing wind conditions :-D

It could have been anything from 320 - 360m/s....

[Karlos]

*ducks*

[Karlos]

At the risk of being entirely tactless and tasteless...

[Karlos]

X-ray wrote:

I didn't like being made to fall over, but once I got up and realised I was okay I felt pretty good the rest of the day.
I wonder if that is the mechanism for 'shock therapy?'

Or even 'sock therapy', if you happen to live in Chiswick?