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Postby CalebChow » Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:52 pm

Kind of a silly topic, but it seems like a legitimate issue in the old days...

Long, metal pikes. Sharp, shiny steel swords pointed towards the sky. There are plenty of accounts where golfers get struck by lightning when swinging their clubs today.

Wouldn't lightning be an issue every now and then?

"TODAY WE FIGHT FOR KING AND C--" ZZZZZ!!!

"uhh.....commander? You ok?"

Sometimes lightning comes fairly abruptly and people in the old days didn't have the weather forecasting that we have today. Are there any accounts of lightning ever striking down knights or soldiers?
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Postby Jonathan Newhall » Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:16 am

None that I know of, but I think it'd be a pretty big deal and if it happend it'd be reported somewhere (I've not looked, so that explains that).

They'd probably have taken it as a sign from God to not go to battle at that time or some such.
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Postby Benjamin Parker » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:24 am

I can't recall the name offhand but I remember a discussion the myarmoury about the same subject and there were a few anecdotes about kings and such who got zapped. I'll see if I can find it
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Postby Jason Taylor » Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:48 pm

Jonathan Newhall wrote:None that I know of, but I think it'd be a pretty big deal and if it happend it'd be reported somewhere (I've not looked, so that explains that).

They'd probably have taken it as a sign from God to not go to battle at that time or some such.


I'd take it as a sign from God even now.... :wink:
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Postby CalebChow » Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:22 pm

Benjamin Parker wrote:I can't recall the name offhand but I remember a discussion the myarmoury about the same subject and there were a few anecdotes about kings and such who got zapped. I'll see if I can find it


Interesting. I look forward to your finds! :D
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Postby Benjamin Parker » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:23 am

CalebChow wrote:
Benjamin Parker wrote:I can't recall the name offhand but I remember a discussion the myarmoury about the same subject and there were a few anecdotes about kings and such who got zapped. I'll see if I can find it


Interesting. I look forward to your finds! :D


Here you go :)

http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic ... =lightning
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Postby Vincent Le Chevalier » Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:38 am

You're welcome ;)
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Postby Benjamin Parker » Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:54 pm

:oops: Sorry Thank you Vincent for finding that for me :D
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Postby Benjamin Parker » Sat Sep 05, 2009 3:06 pm

HUH? : :?

EDIT: Never mind that member has vanished
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