Subject: Lightning hits a golf bag ..

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>> Don't let this be you ............!

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>> Lightning hits a golf bag

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>> A man got hit by lightning Monday morning on a golf course in Madison

>> , WI .. The following are pics of what was left of his bag.

>> Please pass this along to your golfing buddies. Read the what the

>> policeman says, then take a look at the pictures. I have been a

>> police officer for 18 yrs and have seen a lot of gruesome and

>> disturbing scenes (if you can imagine it, I have probably seen a

>> variation of it) ... this one was different because it hits close to home and some of us have been in this situation.

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>> This 75 year old golfer (no pictures of him) was out on the course

>> with 3 other retired guys for a regular weekly tee time, and the

>> weather forecast didn't even predict rain at 10pm the night before.

>> They teed off and got around to the back nine when it started to

>> rain, and when there was a little lightning way off in the distance

>> so they headed in.  They waited under a tree half way in when the

>> rain became very heavy. When it let up a little bit three of them

>> then continued in but one guy decided to wait it out under a 50' pine

>> with an overhang of 10' while standing next to his bag.

>> Minutes later a lightning bolt struck his bag and push cart as he was

>> holding onto one of his clubs killing him instantly.

>> On the top of the first photo you will see what was left of his

>> driver ..... also in a later photo are little brown clumps which used

>> to be golf balls.

>> Most of the items in the bag simply disintegrated from the heat and

>> intense initial zap - including the labels to his ping irons and

>> Cleveland woods (which all popped off). The electricity burned holes

>> into the bottoms of the clubs.

>> The strange thing is the tree under which he was standing had no sign

>> of a lightning strike. The bolt literally went sideways under the

>> tree to the golf clubs.

>> Lesson to be learned -  If you are caught out on the course or water ...

>> distance yourself from anything metal OR graphite.

>> (Did you know that lightning  rods  are often made of graphite?) Put

>> your cart 50' away from you!  When you see lightning off in the

>> distance GO IN IMMEDIATEL-, DON'T WAIT.

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