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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Cthulhu on June 20, 2008, 08:23:38 AM
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This happened yesterday here in Dallas. So much for being safe in your car.
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Poor Jeep, never had a chance :(
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well....it was only a jeep at least :rofl
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ouch
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God is sending a message to SUV owners...
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woah
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Sad thing is, the first thing the owner probably thought was "Damn, I just filled up this morning".
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God is sending a message to SUV owners...
So, now a Jeep is considered an SUV? :huh
We'll have to re-write history books. "Patton drove the Germans to the Rhine, riding in his SUV...."
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well....it was only a jeep at least :rofl
But it also torched that fine Detroit whatchamacallit beside it too. :)
Sad thing is, the first thing the owner probably thought was "Damn, I just filled up this morning".
Not funny, a full tank in a Jeep doubles the book value.
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Those werent really Tanks, they were Surburbans....
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But it also torched that fine Detroit whatchamacallit beside it too. :)
Not funny, a full tank in a Jeep doubles the book value.
that looks like it was a dodge shadow? still no loss, it was only a dodge...wait..i drive a dakota...DOH!!!! :rofl :rofl
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Looks like a Ford Tempo or Taurus on one side and a Dodge truck on the other. Further proof that God is a Chevrolet man :aok
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Safest place to be in a lightning storm is in a car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUUOdO6eEZA
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Never ever leave a penny on the dashboard!
Mac
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Wowzers!
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God is sending a message to SUV owners...
Use parking garages?
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I wonder if he had a "jerry can" of gas on the jeep that might have been venting.
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Safest place to be in a lightning storm is in a car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUUOdO6eEZA
Proof that the Van-God's hates mini-vans.
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Wow, I guess that thing about staying in your car in a thunderstorm was a load of poo.
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It's ok everybody! That's not a real jeep!
It's a 4 door cherokee with a leather soft top.
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Well, I guess I'll have to rethink my Lightning Avoidance Procedure of, at the first sign of a thunderstorm, rushing out of my house and driving around in my car. :confused:
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It's ok everybody! That's not a real jeep!
It's a 4 door cherokee with a leather soft top.
Uhmm, It's Wrangler Unlimited...
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Uhmm, It's Wrangler Unlimited...
Count the doors.
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If it has more than 2 and a back gate, it's not a jeep.
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Heh thats starting to look like a classic Land Rover :)
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Was that off of the 114?
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Count the doors.
(http://images.fourwheeler.com/eventcoverage/129_0704_05_z+2007_jeep_wrangler_unlimited+drivers_side_police.jpg)
If it has more than 2 and a back gate, it's not a jeep.
But it's still a Wrangler Unlimited...it says so on the front quarter panel.
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God hates Jeeps....
And yes, its a Jeep thing, and yes, He understands....
PWN
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The Jeep belonged to the Antichrist or the devil??? :t
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The Jeep belonged to the Antichrist or the devil??? :t
Those are the same person
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This happened yesterday here in Dallas. So much for being safe in your car.
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The reason a car is safe is it creates a metal cage effect. If the car is not metal all the way around (jeep), it won't make the cage effect. I used to work real high up is a metal office ( metal all the way around) as a dispatcher. In 20 years, lighting hit the office 4 times ( never with me in it) and did no damage.
Edit: Here's a link to the cage effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
When lightning strikes an aircraft or a car the electric currents induced on it are forced to travel on the outer skin of the vehicle's body. If you were in a car, and the car were struck by lightning, it is not in fact the rubber tires that would save your life. If the lightning can jump from the ground to the sky, then it can jump from the ground to your car. What actually happens, is by being enclosed by the car's cabin, the lightning travels around you, through the conductive frame of the car. This is because the car forms a Faraday Cage.
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farraday's cage welcome to the 18th century
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Sad thing is, the first thing the owner probably thought was "Damn, I just filled up this morning".
But the pics were taken at 10:20, so the tank would have probably been close to empty by then ;)
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farraday's cage welcome to the 18th century
Thats the great thing about physics. You can miss a few centuries and not miss much :) Yea I know - relativity - its a flash in the pan.
There was a great line in that sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" where the girl asks the nerd " So, what's new in physics?"
He looks around blankly - " Nothing."
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The Jeep belonged to the Antichrist or the devil???
Those are the same person
Dont think so Repoman, but maybe that's your belief though.
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Was that off of the 114?
Lockheed Martin in Grand Prairie
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well....it was only a jeep at least :rofl
No no no, not the jeep! :cry
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Thats the great thing about physics. You can miss a few centuries and not miss much :) Yea I know - relativity - its a flash in the pan.
There was a great line in that sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" where the girl asks the nerd " So, what's new in physics?"
He looks around blankly - " Nothing."
LMAO, that's actually one of my favorite TV shows right now.
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Yeah I love that show too. I get most of the jokes..........does that make me a nerd? If so I'm a failed nerd because I never went to college :cry
As for the lightning strike on the jeep. How unlucky is that? Does the insurance cover you for 'acts of God'.
We had a lightning storm (rare) here yesterday. One simultaneous flash/bang made my wife scream and me jump. I think it hit a nearby tower crane on a construction site.
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Nobody has stated the two most likely causes:
1. Spontaneous Human Combustion
or (the more likely)
2. He was vulched trying to up from the hanger.
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This happened yesterday here in Dallas. So much for being safe in your car.
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Just curious.
I notice two troubling things about the Jeep.
1.) It appears to have 18" wheels on it.
2.) If one of the said "tires" go, then what good will the stock spare do for them?
I've never understood this at all and never will. Not to mention putting that crap on it to make it a mallcrawler.
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We were in a beachside condo in Florida on the 8th(top) floor when the building was hit by lightning and it knocked out the elevator and the TV, oh and loud as hell to
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Just be glad nobody was hit. Electrical burns travel circuitous routes through the body, usually beneath the surface, making it really hard for doctors to treat them. (i.e. BUMP :D)