Man hit by six meteorites is being 'targeted by aliens'

Metro UK ^ | 7/19/2010 | Metro UK

[Dallas59]

A Bosnian man who claims he is being targeted by extraterrestrials
after a series of meteorite strikes on his house has now been hit by a sixth space rock in the space of a few years.

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Radivoje Lajic first came to international attention in 2008, shortly after the fifth meteorite had crashed into the roof of his house in the northern village of Gornji Lajici.

And now, within the past month, another rock has hit the roof of his house, in defiance of all the odds - making it six strikes since the plague of meteorites began in 2007.

Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the falling rocks he has handed over were meteorites. They are now trying to work out what exactly it is about his house that particularly attracts them. The strikes always happen when it is raining heavily, he says, never when there are clear skies.

Lajic has his own explanation, of course. After the fifth rock struck his house, he said: 'I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit six times has to be deliberate.'

50-year-old Lajic has had a steel girder reinforced roof put on the house to protect it from the alien bombardment - which he funded by selling one of the meteorites to a university in the Netherlands.

'I have no doubt I am being targeted by aliens,' he adds. 'They are playing games with me. I don't know why they are doing this. When it rains I can't sleep for worrying about another strike.'

[perchprism]

Every time I drive by this dude’s house, he’s looking out the window at me. Freaky. So I sneak up thru the back yard and throw a rock or two. Makes us even.

[TigersEye]

Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the falling rocks he has handed over were meteorites.

Meteorites are worth a lot of money. Even more since he had six strike in the same place. God is trying to help him out and he just keeps handing them over to the University. /s

[Dallas59]

You can make lots of $$$$$ finding rocks thrown by Aliens!

[cripplecreek]

Actually I’m wondering why there doesn’t appear to be any charring.

The possible explanation I can come up with would be that it was the inner part of a rock that exploded in the atmosphere and managed to survive till its speed was slow enough that it wouldn’t cook.

[muawiyah]

I believe the center is about 238 degrees below zero, and the outer surface simply gets heated and blows off (ablading ?) thereby leaving the greater body still intact quite cool.

[FDNYRHEROES]

This guy should move. If he keeps getting hit after that, maybe THEN he can claim that aliens are singling HIM out...

[cripplecreek]

That makes some sense.

[PA Engineer]

I was thinking that maybe an african or european sparrow dropped them on his house. They don't look like meteorites.

[SunkenCiv]

Uh-boy... any geologists out there? Is that a meteorite, or just ordinary Earth stone? Thanks Dallas59.

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[Stormdog]

“looks like a carbonaceous chondrite”

Sounds like something you’d have lanced.

[redhead]

Heh...looks like a big leaf of tobacco...

[Amberdawn]

It’s probably a neighbor chucking them on his roof just to freak him out.

[redhead]

In case any of you were wondering how to get some good barter-material, I give you this...

[airborne]

Looks like we have a pretty good indication of where the “big one” is going to hit on December 21, 2012.

[rdl6989]

Call me skeptical!

[Cvengr]

Hey, Mijo, I hav yor 7th meteorite rite here!

[Deaf Smith]

"why there doesn’t appear to be any charring."

The guy reported that they only hit during a good rain. s/

[silverleaf]

Maybe he should defeat the aliens...by moving.

[grey_whiskers]

The odds of this happening by chance are about 384,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1 against!

Maybe it's Zahpod Beeblebrox and Tricia McMillan in the Heart of Gold?

Cheers!

[piytar]

LOL. Was wondering if someone would catch the Hitchhiker’s referrence!