This is why I still cherish my Game Boy Advance.
I found this story at Not The Bee: the "real life news" daughter site of The Babylon Bee, one of my favorite places on the whole heapin' World Wide Web. Seems that 13-year old Vlad Skuridin of Cypress, Texas was playing a game on his computer. Suddenly a bolt of lightning struck his house and blew him out of his chair. For good measure the lightning strike also set a small fire in the attic and knocked a hole in the wall.
Here is young Vlad describing the incident to KPRC reporter Corley Peel:
Okay, let's be clear: playing the video game itself did not cause lightning to strike Vlad. It doesn't sound like the bolt was channeled through his computer and from there jumped to Vlad. He just happened to be touching a metallic surface when the bolt hit the house. It sounds like a one-in-a-zillion freak of nature situation. Even so, it's not a bad idea to unplug everything you can when a storm is threatening. I certainly do while lightning is a severe threat. Especially the computers.
And Vlad is a wise young man too. It's true: you never know when something might happen. Be good to the people in your life. Let them know that you care about them. That you love them. We aren't guaranteed tomorrow or even an hour from now. So make your life count!
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