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Three buddies from Broome, Western Australia, We went fishing a few days ago. Men sailed more than 20 kilometers from the coast when suddenly a strong storm.
The boat was thrown from side to side, and above the heads of our heroes thunder thundered and terrible lightning flashed. Australians realized that their metal ship, beating in the middle of the future ocean, is a wonderful target for celestial discharges, and began to search opportunity to be saved.
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When lightning flashed very close to them, that inevitably threatened with death, one of the fishermen came up with the head brilliant in its simplicity idea. He put his in the holder fishing rod, and did it very on time, since another lightning strike It fell in her. Electricity melted the rod and detonated reel, but the men were not injured. Australian manufacturing manipulations with a fishing rod, claims to be alive only thanks some miracle, because it was incredibly close to this an impromptu lightning rod.
Soon lightning struck right next to the boat, and the water in this place already boiled, lit up in red. Friends realized that it’s necessary to get out by all means, boasted of oars and frantically buried to the shore. By chance or higher powers, all three remained safe and sound, but this adventure turned out to be for them the most “bright” – in the literal sense of the word …
