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Bear Biologist Makes Hyperbolic Claim about Bear Mauling and Lightning Strikes
AmmoLand ^ | 13 May, 2020 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 05/15/2020 5:57:16 AM PDT by marktwain

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To: marktwain

“... or about 1 person every 123 years.”

In truth, there are actually data on this. Several years ago, I looked this up, and there were 7 people in the US who had been hit twice by lightening and survived.

I looked it up in reference to comparing the odds of winning the Powerball vs getting hit by lightening twice. The twice-struck odds were almost 10 times greater than buying the winning Powerball ticket.


21 posted on 05/15/2020 7:45:09 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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It is probably a sort of "cluster" phenomena.

Those who are struck are in a pool of people who are much more likely to be struck.

Just as those who are mauled by a bear are in a pool of people much more likely to be mauled by a bear.

The article says comparing bear attacks to lightning strikes is silly, just propaganda.

I looked it up in reference to comparing the odds of winning the Powerball vs getting hit by lightening twice. The twice-struck odds were almost 10 times greater than buying the winning Powerball ticket.

I think you mean the odds of getting struck twice are 10 times less likely, but the syntax is unclear.

22 posted on 05/15/2020 7:54:14 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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I found a conversion kit for Tiger repellent stones. You can easily convert them into lightning strike stones.


23 posted on 05/15/2020 8:04:35 AM PDT by pas
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Yes. Whatever you said is what I meant. Posting In the morning with less than a cup of coffee is something I should avoid.

If I remember correctly, about 3-4 of them were fishermen in Florida.


24 posted on 05/15/2020 9:00:01 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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I’d have a better chance of getting hit by lightning twice than hitting a bear sitting in the middle of the fairway with my driver.........He’s safer there than in the woods.


25 posted on 05/15/2020 11:33:02 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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Great joke thanks to Lee Trevino


26 posted on 05/15/2020 12:13:07 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.(DT4POTUS))
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and they work. I have been carrying them for years.


27 posted on 05/15/2020 12:14:44 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.(DT4POTUS))
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28 posted on 05/15/2020 12:20:00 PM PDT by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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