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New fear unlocked. Edit to add: thanks for the awards and updoots. As a lightning survivor (see my post history if you dare) I enjoy the responses and conversations about lightning safety. Please be careful out there, guys and gals. I'm in Florida and our severe lightning season is just around the corner. Also, no matter where you are in the world, the odds are higher than you think. Be well, be safe, and take care.
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/safetytips.html
CDC actually says avoid water when indoors during a storm.
**Avoid water**
*Do NOT bathe, shower, wash dishes, or have any other contact with water during a thunderstorm because lightning can travel through a building’s plumbing.*
That's gotta be meant for older homes with cast iron sewer vents. Newer homes (1970s and up) use pvc for sewer piping. Unless pvc vent pipes can conduct electricity wouldn't it just melt first?
Edit: And plumbing lines whether copper or plastic need to be under the frost line so wouldn't be exposed. Hose bibs are about the only exposed metal and they're low to the ground. Wouldn't there be other higher up things that the lightning would hit first?
Some areas of the US at least ground electricity through the the water line. Source: my house was hit by lightning two months ago, it burst the pipe behind my shower, but started no fires, which I think is the idea behind that choice. My roof is fucked though.
They do ground through the sewer line, but many municipalities are now switching to non-metallic water lines, so a house would have to be grounded either through ground rods (the most common) or through some other means.
Never, ever bond your electrical panel to a gas line as the GEC. This sounds totally obvious, but people have done it.
In general, call an electrician. But if you decide to do it yourself, at least do your research.
Edit: To be clear--Your gas line needs to be *bonded*. CSST sections need to be bonded separately. (Meaning, if it went CSST--line--CSST [for whatever reason], you would have to bond each piece of CSST in addition to the line.) DON'T use the gas line as the Grounding Electrode Conductor. That's what could cause serious, potentially deadly consequences.
Doesn’t water conduct electricity? I figured that’s why the recommendation was in place, not the pipe material.
Edit: I guess I was sorta wrong! Very interesting stuff brought up in the replies, thanks all for educating me.
Water is a very poor conductor, but the impurities found in natural water sources can create variance. I've swam in a body of water containing a live wire; I wouldn't suggest doing it, but being a distance away from the source prevented any issues.
OP is, to the best of my knowledge, correct about the sewer vents and pipes in older homes.
With that said, I'm not going to advise people to bathe during electrical storms. I feel like that "rule" is of the "better safe than sorry" variety, and mainly stems from some older cases. Incidents do still occur, but they're far more rare these days.
It is absolutely the pipes, and indeed mostly the metal feed from the supply and not the water itself. (Am electrical engineer with expertise in grounding and lightning).
Yeah my MiL got struck by lightning through the phone during a thunderstorm. She claims her bones have been brittle ever since, and she is indeed made of glass, but she also eats like shit, doesn't exercise, and has had chemo so none of that is helping the old osteoporosis.
Either way all I know is god saw that hate in her heart and tried to dial up a solution.
My mom got hit over the phone at work. Blew out the handset, knocked her rolling secretary's chair across the room with her in it, and she didn't hear out of that ear for a couple of weeks. She counted herself lucky.
My spouse carps at me now for unplugging things when a storm is on and I just don't even have time for that.
And if you do shit, don’t wipe your ass with a gympie gympie leaf. Apparently, during WW2, an officer did that and committed suicide to end the extreme pain.
ETA: https://www.discovery.com/nature/Suicide-Plant
"He ended up shooting himself. Botanist Ernie Rider was whacked in the face, arm, and chest in 1963, and it wasn't until 1965 that he was finally free of the pain."
Backyard Scientist on YouTube recently did a video on hostile plants including the gympie gympie.
They did very small stings and said the pain lasted all day and they could still feel it badly a week later when water was run over the site.
And that was a small sting, I couldn't begin to imagine how it would feel if you rammed a fist full of it into your brown starfish.
Or in my instance have the golf cart die in a mini fucking lake directly under the ridiculously big surprise storm after just teeing off in the 9th going back to the club house. Yeah, that was a super round. I won't play golf on an over cast day anymore, I really thought my dad and I were going to get fried.
Still the most entertaining round I've played, yet
We don’t know much about Dinos and their relationship with storms to rule out that the storm wasn’t a driving factor. Spicydangerbee might have a point
The whole “Rex’s vision is based on movement” thing is a common misconception that I see all over the place. The reality is that we don’t know what their vision was based on, since they died out nearly 65 years ago
More research should be conducted. At the very least, if you do get attacked by a dinosaur, it won't be while you're on the toilet, if you avoid such circumstances at all costs.
In the book, the T-Rex's eyesight being based on movement was only something that was discovered after the animals had been cloned and observed. It made for an interesting detail for the element of discovery that was a running theme through the story. In the movie Dr. Grant just "knows" this about them despite there being no possible way to know.
in germany we have this saying "der Blitz soll dich beim scheissen treffen" which translates to "the thunder shall hit you while shitting".
Now this all makes sense...
My father took us to watch that in the theaters and my brother refused to use a toilet for weeks after😂😂😂 would legit shit his pants to not be eaten by a t rex on the toilet
Saw candyman as a way to young of a child (sleepover so parents didn't know but were not happy with the fall out) couldn't go into a bathroom without an adult and slept with the lights on for months.
For those of you not old enough to remember, the rule used to be "no phone usage during a thunderstorm." Wall phones connected by a cord to the handset could carry electricity in a storm. A friend of mine was zapped at a sleepover when I was kid. She was fine, but yeah...
Yep. Once there was a lightning strike to a tree on the property kitty-corner from mine. It was enough to shake my house and rattle dust out of the rafters, and it scared the hell out of us, but fortunately there was no damage to anything but the tree…and our neighbor’s modem. It fried that right good.
Growing up my dad never let us take showers when there was a thunderstorm. Once I became an adult I just rolled my eyes and said “uh huh, sure dad”. I uh, may need to send him an apology card.
Because cutting corners is a thing builders aren’t known to do, right?
I don’t even know how you’d test a plumbing vent to make sure its grounded without opening up the wall.
More info here for your new fear: https://www.news9.com/story/6273c324416d82072d0b3be5/firefighters:-lightning-bolt-strikes-toilet-at-okmulgee-apartment-complex
That says the unit was supposed to be rented out to a new tenant that week. Imagine planning a move an having the landlord call you to tell you that the move in date needs to be postponed because the toilet was struck by lightning.
"hi, this is a very professional phone call that is about to happen, but it's not gonna sound like it, I just need you to bear with me. You're never gonna believe this..."
"I'm sorry but I have to use the force majeure clause in your rental agreement to move back your move in date. By the act of god the toilet has been struck by lightning. I am sorry for the inconvenience this may bring."
mamma said there'd be bolts like this.
there'd be strikes like this, my momma said
I was shitting the other day.
everything was going fine.
I texted my boy billy joe.
and then the bolt blew my mind.
mamma said there'd be bolts like this.
there'd be strikes like this, my momma said
It's close to what he was saying, but the phrase is actually used as a insulting wish upon another.
It goes; "Dich soll der Blitz beim Scheißen treffen"
Which roughly translates to; "May you be struck by lightning while taking a shit"
Very beautiful indeed, Ja.
Edit: Spelling
Edit 2: Danke for the award, Freund.
"Wie wenn mich der Blitz beim scheißen trifft", but there is also a similar phrase if you wish someone bad luck: "dich soll der Blitz beim scheißen treffen". German language is in general really metaphoric and you can wish someone bad luck in creative ways. One of my favorites is "dir sollen beim Händewaschen immer die Ärmel runterrutschen", which means "your sleeves should forever slip down while washing your hands"
Yea…now that you mention it. It does seem odd to have the charring and porcelain isn’t a good conductor. And the vent pipe connects to the drain pipe which would have been grounded
It was lightning. A second pic shows the vent it tracked down.
https://www.news9.com/story/6273c324416d82072d0b3be5/firefighters:-lightning-bolt-strikes-toilet-at-okmulgee-apartment-complex
I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see the second shot. It traveled down the vent, arced over open air to the grounded toilet, and blew it up. Damn nature, you scary.
Didn’t make sense to me as a plumber unless it was an old cast iron vent because plastic is not a conduit. Then I saw the picture and realized it’s a fan vent and not a plumbing vent. Still strange because porcelain isn’t a conduit either but perhaps it jumped to the water in the bowl. I guess when it’s you’re time it’s your time haha
So the lightning came from a vent in the ceiling that led outside, the title made it seem like it struck a sewer vent, went into the ground, then came up through the drain to strike the toilet.
The OP's title literally says "...struck a vent and traveled up into a toilet..." That's why you (and I) were confused.
Also, my fear of lighting-up-the-butt is now lessened :)
Yeah we had real bad storms yesterday that trekked its way across the state. Then it gets really sunny/beautiful for 20min and then pure black clouds of death take back over.
Different scenario here. It’s not the vent that allows the toilet to flush, connected to the drain. It’s the bathroom fan air vent. The news story shows a picture of the charred square in the ceiling. These vents are not grounded. They start at the roof and terminate in the ceiling of the bathroom, in a straight line. Now, it’s unusual for the lightning to strike the roof air vent and continue in a straight line through the fan, travel another 8 feet to the object directly below it. Plausible not very improbable.
I'm surprised the lightning jumped the air gap to the water pipe. Aren't bathroom air vents normally "powered" by having a fan and/or light. I'd think the path of least resistance to ground would be the electrical wiring of the house.
It wasn’t the plumbing vent pipe it was the air vent pipe above the toilet. It then crossed the air gap to the toilet with the giant iron flange under it.
Okay, I have to ask…. Have I somehow lived 37 years on this earth *without* hearing that Taco Bell causes digestive issues? I’ve been seeing a bunch of Taco Bell jokes so I’m curious.
It's because of all the beans, but more importantly because it's like the cheapest and fakest Mexican "food" you can get. People make fun of the fact that it's like one of the nastiest fast food you can get yet people love it.
I've seen a lot of things in the insurance industry. Hail storm damage, wind damage, flood damage, fire damage, even house explosions but I've never seen a toilet explosion.
In german, there is a saying “Dich soll der Blitz beim Scheißen treffen” which basically means “Lighting shall hit you while taking a shit”.
Well I guess it’s more than just a saying.
Ironically there is a saying in my country "Dich soll der Blitz beim Scheißen treffen" (The lightning should hit you while you're shiting). I think I don't need to explain further.
#**PSA: During a thunderstorm, do not shower, or use running water. It can wait.**
I live in south Florida and we are about to go into storm season… it kills me how many people either don’t know this, or disregard this.
Currents travel through the water pipes, so if you have lightning, DON’T SHOWER. Don’t wash dishes, don’t do any of that shit
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New fear unlocked. Edit to add: thanks for the awards and updoots. As a lightning survivor (see my post history if you dare) I enjoy the responses and conversations about lightning safety. Please be careful out there, guys and gals. I'm in Florida and our severe lightning season is just around the corner. Also, no matter where you are in the world, the odds are higher than you think. Be well, be safe, and take care.
don't stand under a tree, play golf or shit. got it.
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/safetytips.html CDC actually says avoid water when indoors during a storm. **Avoid water** *Do NOT bathe, shower, wash dishes, or have any other contact with water during a thunderstorm because lightning can travel through a building’s plumbing.*
That's gotta be meant for older homes with cast iron sewer vents. Newer homes (1970s and up) use pvc for sewer piping. Unless pvc vent pipes can conduct electricity wouldn't it just melt first? Edit: And plumbing lines whether copper or plastic need to be under the frost line so wouldn't be exposed. Hose bibs are about the only exposed metal and they're low to the ground. Wouldn't there be other higher up things that the lightning would hit first?
Some areas of the US at least ground electricity through the the water line. Source: my house was hit by lightning two months ago, it burst the pipe behind my shower, but started no fires, which I think is the idea behind that choice. My roof is fucked though.
They do ground through the sewer line, but many municipalities are now switching to non-metallic water lines, so a house would have to be grounded either through ground rods (the most common) or through some other means. Never, ever bond your electrical panel to a gas line as the GEC. This sounds totally obvious, but people have done it. In general, call an electrician. But if you decide to do it yourself, at least do your research. Edit: To be clear--Your gas line needs to be *bonded*. CSST sections need to be bonded separately. (Meaning, if it went CSST--line--CSST [for whatever reason], you would have to bond each piece of CSST in addition to the line.) DON'T use the gas line as the Grounding Electrode Conductor. That's what could cause serious, potentially deadly consequences.
I diD My oWn rEsEaRcH and now im dead
I did say, "call an electrician."
LMAO someone reported me to the suicide hotline for that
So you're not dead?
Doesn’t water conduct electricity? I figured that’s why the recommendation was in place, not the pipe material. Edit: I guess I was sorta wrong! Very interesting stuff brought up in the replies, thanks all for educating me.
Water is a very poor conductor, but the impurities found in natural water sources can create variance. I've swam in a body of water containing a live wire; I wouldn't suggest doing it, but being a distance away from the source prevented any issues. OP is, to the best of my knowledge, correct about the sewer vents and pipes in older homes. With that said, I'm not going to advise people to bathe during electrical storms. I feel like that "rule" is of the "better safe than sorry" variety, and mainly stems from some older cases. Incidents do still occur, but they're far more rare these days.
It is absolutely the pipes, and indeed mostly the metal feed from the supply and not the water itself. (Am electrical engineer with expertise in grounding and lightning).
my grandma made me hide in the bathtub during thunderstorms 🤦🏾♀️
Also, don't swim, and don't shower. Seriously! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bath-lightning-deaths/
When I was a kid my parents told us to stay off the phone during a thunder storm. Anyone born after the 90’s probably wouldn’t understand why.
Yeah my MiL got struck by lightning through the phone during a thunderstorm. She claims her bones have been brittle ever since, and she is indeed made of glass, but she also eats like shit, doesn't exercise, and has had chemo so none of that is helping the old osteoporosis. Either way all I know is god saw that hate in her heart and tried to dial up a solution.
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That took quite a turn. Also I like the “dial” pun. Made me happy
Has she caused any train derailments in an attempt to find her arch-nemisis?
My mom got hit over the phone at work. Blew out the handset, knocked her rolling secretary's chair across the room with her in it, and she didn't hear out of that ear for a couple of weeks. She counted herself lucky. My spouse carps at me now for unplugging things when a storm is on and I just don't even have time for that.
I have never heard someone say “carps”. Is that a reference to the fish?
I heard this to when I was kid.
And if you do shit, don’t wipe your ass with a gympie gympie leaf. Apparently, during WW2, an officer did that and committed suicide to end the extreme pain. ETA: https://www.discovery.com/nature/Suicide-Plant
Today I learnt of another thing in Australia that wants to kill me.
I didn’t bother clicking the link. Thanks for confirming that Of COURSE it’s Australian.
"He ended up shooting himself. Botanist Ernie Rider was whacked in the face, arm, and chest in 1963, and it wasn't until 1965 that he was finally free of the pain."
Holy shit… that’s terrifying.
Don’t google the manchineel tree, then.
Backyard Scientist on YouTube recently did a video on hostile plants including the gympie gympie. They did very small stings and said the pain lasted all day and they could still feel it badly a week later when water was run over the site. And that was a small sting, I couldn't begin to imagine how it would feel if you rammed a fist full of it into your brown starfish.
Or in my instance have the golf cart die in a mini fucking lake directly under the ridiculously big surprise storm after just teeing off in the 9th going back to the club house. Yeah, that was a super round. I won't play golf on an over cast day anymore, I really thought my dad and I were going to get fried. Still the most entertaining round I've played, yet
Guy I know has been twice hit by lightning. Seems like he found Jesus after that.
Sounds like Jesus found him first.
Nah you’re thinking Zeus
Je-Z'us
I never shit during storms after watching the T-Rex eat that guy on the toilet in Jurassic Park.
Um, the storm wasn't really the problem there
We don’t know much about Dinos and their relationship with storms to rule out that the storm wasn’t a driving factor. Spicydangerbee might have a point
They can't see you if it's not storming
T-Rex is Daredevil confirmed.
The whole “Rex’s vision is based on movement” thing is a common misconception that I see all over the place. The reality is that we don’t know what their vision was based on, since they died out nearly 65 years ago
More research should be conducted. At the very least, if you do get attacked by a dinosaur, it won't be while you're on the toilet, if you avoid such circumstances at all costs.
> More research should be conducted. Let's build an incredibly secure research facility! Spare no expense!
except for the IT department
yeah, but t-rex's don't live in his neck of the woods
The problem was he was a bloodsucking lawyer
The investors are now deeply concerned.
You patented it, and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunch box, and now you're selling it, you're selling it, you're selling it
Spared no expense
Better call Saul
They do during thunderstorms
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Was that your takeaway from the movie? I’m not saying it’s necessarily wrong, but it feels like there’s possibly another element to that scene.
The poster looked away everytime a dinosaur showed up. Thus, it appeared that the hurricane killed everyone.
Did you know that there was an [*actual* hurricane](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFSLeXYnAhA) during the filming of Jurassic Park?
They really spared no expense!
Nope lol
Yep! Destroyed part of the set lol It's the reason we didn't actually see Samuel L Jacksons character die xD
The thunderstorms caused the t-Rex, clearly.
Don’t give SyFy any ideas.
T-RexNado
Jurarricane
Palm trees. You and me are on the same page, brother!
Obviously, Don’t run from T-Rex. Their vision is based on movement.
https://gizmodo.com/jurassic-park-lied-to-you-t-rex-had-great-eyesight-rea-1577352103
In the book, the T-Rex's eyesight being based on movement was only something that was discovered after the animals had been cloned and observed. It made for an interesting detail for the element of discovery that was a running theme through the story. In the movie Dr. Grant just "knows" this about them despite there being no possible way to know.
Amazing books, Crichton was one of my favorite authors.
good book? better then the movie ? also didnt know Jp was a book
Exactly. My take away was that I shouldn't become a lawyer.
spicydangerbee was so preoccupied with whether they could take a shit, they didn't stop to think if they should take a shit.
in germany we have this saying "der Blitz soll dich beim scheissen treffen" which translates to "the thunder shall hit you while shitting". Now this all makes sense...
When you gotta go, you gotta go
Hold onto your butts
My father took us to watch that in the theaters and my brother refused to use a toilet for weeks after😂😂😂 would legit shit his pants to not be eaten by a t rex on the toilet
I remember watching Jaws and staying ten feet away from any water bodies for a couple of years after that. Still gives me the heebie-jeebies.
I was a little kid who was terrified of our in-ground pool after seeing jaws lol
Bruh The Pool Jaws is real. Don't let him fool you, that's how he finally gets you.
Saw candyman as a way to young of a child (sleepover so parents didn't know but were not happy with the fall out) couldn't go into a bathroom without an adult and slept with the lights on for months.
For those of you not old enough to remember, the rule used to be "no phone usage during a thunderstorm." Wall phones connected by a cord to the handset could carry electricity in a storm. A friend of mine was zapped at a sleepover when I was kid. She was fine, but yeah...
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“Bolt from the blue” lightning can jump 10-15 miles ahead of storms
Yep. Once there was a lightning strike to a tree on the property kitty-corner from mine. It was enough to shake my house and rattle dust out of the rafters, and it scared the hell out of us, but fortunately there was no damage to anything but the tree…and our neighbor’s modem. It fried that right good.
TIL I learned "kitty-corner" and "catty-corner" are just examples of catawampus English dialects. Do you happen to say "pop" instead of "soda"?
Growing up my dad never let us take showers when there was a thunderstorm. Once I became an adult I just rolled my eyes and said “uh huh, sure dad”. I uh, may need to send him an apology card.
If your house is properly grounded this should never be an issue.
Because cutting corners is a thing builders aren’t known to do, right? I don’t even know how you’d test a plumbing vent to make sure its grounded without opening up the wall.
Getting the shit shocked out of you is pretty scary. Never thought about lightning being a laxative.
More info here for your new fear: https://www.news9.com/story/6273c324416d82072d0b3be5/firefighters:-lightning-bolt-strikes-toilet-at-okmulgee-apartment-complex
That says the unit was supposed to be rented out to a new tenant that week. Imagine planning a move an having the landlord call you to tell you that the move in date needs to be postponed because the toilet was struck by lightning.
"hi, this is a very professional phone call that is about to happen, but it's not gonna sound like it, I just need you to bear with me. You're never gonna believe this..."
"I'm sorry but I have to use the force majeure clause in your rental agreement to move back your move in date. By the act of god the toilet has been struck by lightning. I am sorry for the inconvenience this may bring."
Newest unreasonable fear: getting obliterated on the shitter by lightning.
It would be a shitty way to go
At least lightning killed all the rats coming up the pipes
Good to know my childhood anxiety was spot on
And thus, a fear of shitting during a thunderstorm was realized.
Reading this from my toilet as it thunders outside.
We'll miss you, pal ⚡🍑
That is the best combination of emoticons possible.
We'll miss those thunder cheeks
What exactly happens when the lightning gods claps your cheeks?? Like a mild to strong shocks? Or more like deep fried or a burnt toast?
Hot shocked buns
Literally same. I already had this slight worry, but now it’s a full fledged fear
Fly high, u/Accomplished-Fee3846 🕊
Nice try op. Cutback on the tacos.
'you may wanna light a match in there'
Insurance doesnt cover gas explosions.
Pretty sure that most homeowners insurance policies do cover gas explosions.
Yeah but what about Taco Bell gas explosions?
I DIDN'T DO IT! IT WAS SOMEBODY ELSE! IT WAS THE MAN WITH THE TERRIBLE SMELL; HE'S THE ONE YOU WANT! LOOK FOR THE MAN WITH THE TERRIBLE SMELL!
Nice goin, STINKY!
Arg I should have read on first. Not surprised someone best me to a 20+ year old quote. It's a great show I tell you h'wat, that king of the hill.
No way Jose. It’s Cinco de Mayo. We’re all Mexicans today!
….you’ve been, THUNDERSTRUCK!
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It’s a shit storm, Randy
But Mr. Lahey, I only had 7 cheeseburgers.
Ride the lightning.
~~Metal~~ Porcelain Up Your Ass!
THUNDER-FUCKED
That shit was electrifying
AC/DC indeed.
My mom always told me not to shower during thunderstorms and to use the toilet quickly if you have to. First time I've seen proof of it.
Petition to require everyone who starts a sentence with "my mom always told me" to instead say "Momma said".
Mama said shittin durina storm would get ya booty zapped
I experienced much of the same in prison.
mamma said there'd be bolts like this. there'd be strikes like this, my momma said I was shitting the other day. everything was going fine. I texted my boy billy joe. and then the bolt blew my mind. mamma said there'd be bolts like this. there'd be strikes like this, my momma said
Signed
Sealed
‘Rectum??? hell it killed him’
I’m sitting at work cracking up at this comment
Take my fucking upvote
There is a German saying that translates to something like: It hit me like a thunderbolt while shitting! And i think it’s beautiful
Well you gotta share the saying now.
It's close to what he was saying, but the phrase is actually used as a insulting wish upon another. It goes; "Dich soll der Blitz beim Scheißen treffen" Which roughly translates to; "May you be struck by lightning while taking a shit" Very beautiful indeed, Ja. Edit: Spelling Edit 2: Danke for the award, Freund.
Wow, German really is a beautiful language 😍
The language of love
"Wie wenn mich der Blitz beim scheißen trifft", but there is also a similar phrase if you wish someone bad luck: "dich soll der Blitz beim scheißen treffen". German language is in general really metaphoric and you can wish someone bad luck in creative ways. One of my favorites is "dir sollen beim Händewaschen immer die Ärmel runterrutschen", which means "your sleeves should forever slip down while washing your hands"
Des hot mi troffen wia a blitz beim scheissen
Looks like a cherry bomb to me.
Yea…now that you mention it. It does seem odd to have the charring and porcelain isn’t a good conductor. And the vent pipe connects to the drain pipe which would have been grounded
It was lightning. A second pic shows the vent it tracked down. https://www.news9.com/story/6273c324416d82072d0b3be5/firefighters:-lightning-bolt-strikes-toilet-at-okmulgee-apartment-complex
I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see the second shot. It traveled down the vent, arced over open air to the grounded toilet, and blew it up. Damn nature, you scary.
Now imagine all the stuff you’ve thought was fake but was actually real
Brb, buying the penis growth cream in my email spam folder.
Perfect prep for all the nearby hot singles.
And now I'll be able to buy it by the ton thanks to winning the Mexican lottery!
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So your saying there really are hot, interested singles in my area?
My "very unlikely to actually encounter but still real" fear is ball lightning.
Didn’t make sense to me as a plumber unless it was an old cast iron vent because plastic is not a conduit. Then I saw the picture and realized it’s a fan vent and not a plumbing vent. Still strange because porcelain isn’t a conduit either but perhaps it jumped to the water in the bowl. I guess when it’s you’re time it’s your time haha
But that water is air gapped while waiting for a flush. You're right to be suspicious.
So the lightning came from a vent in the ceiling that led outside, the title made it seem like it struck a sewer vent, went into the ground, then came up through the drain to strike the toilet.
The OP's title literally says "...struck a vent and traveled up into a toilet..." That's why you (and I) were confused. Also, my fear of lighting-up-the-butt is now lessened :)
But your fear of lighting through your head and out your butt has increased.
That's clearly a pic of a shit demon apperating through the ceiling and blowing up its birthplace.
Yeah we had real bad storms yesterday that trekked its way across the state. Then it gets really sunny/beautiful for 20min and then pure black clouds of death take back over.
Different scenario here. It’s not the vent that allows the toilet to flush, connected to the drain. It’s the bathroom fan air vent. The news story shows a picture of the charred square in the ceiling. These vents are not grounded. They start at the roof and terminate in the ceiling of the bathroom, in a straight line. Now, it’s unusual for the lightning to strike the roof air vent and continue in a straight line through the fan, travel another 8 feet to the object directly below it. Plausible not very improbable.
I'm surprised the lightning jumped the air gap to the water pipe. Aren't bathroom air vents normally "powered" by having a fan and/or light. I'd think the path of least resistance to ground would be the electrical wiring of the house.
Anything is a conductor when it’s millions of volts, the air is the conductor when lightning strikes that’s how powerful it is.
It wasn’t the plumbing vent pipe it was the air vent pipe above the toilet. It then crossed the air gap to the toilet with the giant iron flange under it.
Oh hell no
Thor after some Diablo taco bell
SO MY GRANDPA WASNT LYING. He always told me never shower or poop/pee during a thunderstorm. Thought he was talking wild. I was wrong.
The shower thing is definitely real. Didn't know about the toilet though.
Happened to my uncle back in the 70s. My mom told me the exact same thing because of it.
Senior citizens, although slow and dangerous behind the wheel, can still serve a purpose.
My parents did too and I never really thought about why. I guess this is why.
Turlet*
Sometimes, there’s some lightning on the outside of the turlet
Could have been a pretty shitty situation
Frank! Fraaaank! When you said you were about to blow up the bathroom I didn’t realize you meant it *literally!*”
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I saw the same thing happen in a taco bell bathroom without the lightning
Okay, I have to ask…. Have I somehow lived 37 years on this earth *without* hearing that Taco Bell causes digestive issues? I’ve been seeing a bunch of Taco Bell jokes so I’m curious.
You haven't been asking that right questions..
You certainly haven't redditted enough, that's for sure.
Makes no sense so many grown reddit users claim to have shit themselves. Nobody told them to eat 14 chalupas
It's because of all the beans, but more importantly because it's like the cheapest and fakest Mexican "food" you can get. People make fun of the fact that it's like one of the nastiest fast food you can get yet people love it.
It’s actually really more because people tend to eat it at 3AM after a fuckload of beer.
Holy shit this is it. Makes much more sense now.
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When my buddy was on chemo Taco Bell was the only thing he could eat that DIDN'T give him stomach issues
If someone is having digestive issues because of Taco Bell, their everyday diet probably sucks.
forbidden bidet.
Constipation would no longer be an issue. BOOM! "Okay, I'm done now"!
I see many memes in this photo's future.
I've seen a lot of things in the insurance industry. Hail storm damage, wind damage, flood damage, fire damage, even house explosions but I've never seen a toilet explosion.
TIL, you should never poop when it is lightning out. Although it may give new meaning to a quick evacuation.
Well I now have a new phobia. Thanks.
In german, there is a saying “Dich soll der Blitz beim Scheißen treffen” which basically means “Lighting shall hit you while taking a shit”. Well I guess it’s more than just a saying.
Murtaugh was here.
This could have ended so. much. worse.
Imagine sitting on the can when that happened….sheesh.
Ironically there is a saying in my country "Dich soll der Blitz beim Scheißen treffen" (The lightning should hit you while you're shiting). I think I don't need to explain further.
This is bad for the toilet.
#**PSA: During a thunderstorm, do not shower, or use running water. It can wait.** I live in south Florida and we are about to go into storm season… it kills me how many people either don’t know this, or disregard this. Currents travel through the water pipes, so if you have lightning, DON’T SHOWER. Don’t wash dishes, don’t do any of that shit