This man was struck by lightening and the scar is amazing, albeit tragic. Known as a Lichtenberg scar.

The_Maddog · 6 months

I wouldnt say tragic since he survived.

I'd say badass!

sleepyworm · 6 months

girl: "I like your tattoo."

guy: "Actually that's a scar from when I was hit by lightning."

girl: removes clothes

mrmyxlplyx · 6 months

"Tonight on Fox 4: More than 3,000 people were stuck by lightning today. All were between the ages of 15 and 25. Was it a strange coincidence or something more ominous? More at 11."

I0I0I0I · 6 months

I'd be proud to wear that scar.

naked_ditchdigger · 6 months

I might just run around with a metal rod just to get one of those.

MaeBeWeird · 6 months

A little girl and her sister were struck by lightning getting off the school bus about a week ago... they said they had "marks that look like flowers" on their arms at first, but they went away. I had no clue wtf that could be, but looking at these, I can see how a 9 year old and 12 year old could think it looks like a vine of tiny flowers.

Z3F · 6 months

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_burn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenberg_figures

*Also I realize I misspelled 'lightning' :/

lightninghand · 6 months

Tragic? Genocide is tragic. A freaking sweet scar on a live dude is by no means tragic.

Cozmo23 · 6 months

It would suck to get struck by lightning, but out of all the horrible ways to be ~~scared~~ scarred at least in this case you get something that looks pretty cool.

Edited: Spelling

wdjm · 6 months

Oddly beautiful - but decidedly NOT the way I'd prefer to get decorated.

acg706 · 6 months

It kinda looks like a henna tattoo.

cranberrybobbie · 6 months

His name is Winston Kemp. He is a ginger, as is his girlfriend. One day they will have lots of ginger babies. It's all a nefarious plot. One that I fully support.

LeComedien · 6 months

Fractals! Fractals everywhere!

Hookhand · 6 months

"Lightening" causes darkening.

redhousebythebog · 6 months

Found the story Here

Edit: I link the story and get 5 points. Horny Redditor comments get 970. I am doing it wrong. A picture of his hot girlfriend is here too. (Is that better?)

lemeontop · 6 months

Looks like this. He's a living fossil.

Wildcat451 · 6 months

It looks like neuron/nerve cell. It's got dendrites, a cell body, axon, everything. Amazing

TerraHertz · 6 months

The scar is cool, for all the reasons already mentioned. The permanent nerve damage is sad. But what is saddest of all, is the appalling ignorance of physics and anatomy exhibited by so many here.

No, the pattern is NOT in any way related to either nerve or vein patterns under the skin. It's purely a consequence of the behavior of very fast rise-time electrical impulse, distributing charge over a conductive surface. Ironically, this is also known as the 'skin effect', but usually referring to the 'skin' of a metal conductor carrying high frequency current. Also, Lichtenberg patterns, for these types of patterns left by fast electrical discharges: http://capturedlightning.com/frames/lichtenbergs.html

The strike hit near the top of his arm, where all the branches radiate from a point. It looks like he was hit by a minor side-streamer of the main lightning current path. Otherwise he's have a very much more severe main burn track traveling down his body towards the ground. I have a strip of wood about 5 feet long and half an inch thick, that was blasted out of a tree trunk by a lightning main strike. He didn't get that effect, and he's really lucky he didn't.

In lightning strikes there's a potential difference of several million volts, and the current rise time in the strike path can be as short as a few tens of nanoseconds. The result is that charge redistribution to objects near the strike path is driven by very fast rise-time electrostatic fields, while strongly constrained by the magnetic field of the current paths involved in discharging the electric fields. It's a kind of pushing match between the magnetic field constriction of the paths, vs electric fields due to the proximity of as-yet unequalized charge areas. Hence the branching Lichtenburg patterns, in which successively smaller fractal branches equalize smaller and smaller charge areas around the 'trunk' discharge lines.

Lichtenburg figures can occur as 3D shapes inside insulating or poorly conductive media (perspex, soil), or on the surface of good conductors. Where the material is a good conductor (metal, or salty flesh and blood) the current spike is mostly constrained to a thin layer at the surface since magnetic fields associated with the current are unable to move into the medium rapidly (induced currents oppose the movement.) The original current is unable to penetrate since it's own magnetic field is trapped at the surface and blocks progression into the material. See also 'Litz wire'.

tl;dr: He's really lucky. Lightning struck the ground within a few feet of him, and he copped a relatively small side-streamer because he presented a juicy chunk of available charge just on the border of the strike's electrostatic equalization sheath. Looks like he got only his own charge rapidly transfered to the strike, without any of the million-amp main strike going through him.

obnoxiouscarbuncle · 6 months

The big problem is if you have one of these on your left shoulder and one on your right foot.

Thread_Kaczynski · 6 months

Michael Jackson was struck by lightening. This man was struck by LIGHTNING.

Do those scars conform to a Fibonacci sequence?

DenOfThieves · 6 months

I put a mug with a metallic surface in the microwave once (dumb, I know) and when it started sparking, I quickly stopped it. It has patterns like this on it now.

*oh, here's a picture.

rexmons · 6 months

YOU CALL THAT A LIGHTNING BURN!?!

DogThatDidntBark · 6 months

Don't be fooled. He's a horcrux.

bizquick · 6 months

Usually people have to pay for that level of skin art.

cartoon_violence · 6 months

You're a wizard Harry!

Softcorps_dn · 6 months

There's no e in lightning ಠ_ಠ

pbrand · 6 months

stop

misspelling

lightning

Jesus fuck.

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