Lightning does strike twice

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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I have a short video clip recived fomo a colleague in USA that was taken from a CCTV camera that shows a man being struck by lighting, not just once, but twice. He recovers from the first strike and walks on for a few a yards and is then hit again. He is lucky to be alive after being hit twice , but walks on after recovering for a few seconds. Can send this to you, I believe it to be authentic, please let me have an email address to send to as an attachment. I have a couple of personal coincidences that I will write up and submit. Nic H
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:50:00 +0000Coincidence ID:3878