Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 16, 2015
February 15, 2015
February 17, 2015
Transcript:
Zap!! Soccer player Joao Contreras Fuentes, of the Peruvian team Sport Aguila, survived being hit by a bolt of lightning in the middle of a match in December 2014. Feel that? Nope. Patients with the extremely rare Vittangi Disease do not feel pain. It is named after a village in northern Sweden where many cases have been reported. In the War of the Stray Dog in 1925, Greece and Bulgaria went to war after a Greek soldier ran across the border to retrieve his dog!
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Templo S.U.D. over 9 years ago
João, you lucky dog you. And that was just a few months ago too!
MJKesquire over 9 years ago
Not feeling pain would be great when having surgery,or when going to the dentist!!
James Hopkins over 9 years ago
As nice as it would be to not feel pain at times, it’s important we recognize it to stay alive.
Guilty Bystander over 9 years ago
It only says Joao “survived” the lightning, but did he play on? It would’ve been pretty inconsiderate to leave his team with only 10 on the pitch.
Charlie Fogwhistle over 9 years ago
Actor Jim Caviezel was hit by lightning during the filming of the 2004 movie “The Passion of the Christ”, and survived. There are quite a few others, too, on both sides of the divide.
John W Kennedy Premium Member over 9 years ago
And the Pig War, between the United States and Vancouver (later, British Columbia), over the San Juan Islands east of Vancouver Island. In this case, only the pig was a casualty, even though the war technically ran from 1859 to 1872.