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Old 07-14-2014, 11:14 AM
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Smile What's more dangerous, lightning or motorcycle?
The odds against being struck by lightning are 606,944 to one.

The odds against being killed on a motorcycle are 1,250 to one.

I didn't make this up, this is the way I found this information.

Note: There was nearly a full page of warnings about lightning in the Daily Sun but no warnings about motorcycle riding.

Good luck to those who seek to protect their homes with lightning rods etc.: A lightning strike discharges from 10 to 100 million volts of electricity and the air temperature around lightning is about 6 times hotter than the surface of the sun. Therefore, since lightning rods don't attract lightning, a massive lightning strike can hit your house anywhere it chooses and still cause a fire.