Re: Golfers hurt by lightning strike!



On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:33:22 -0500, "the Moderator"
<sparky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Loudon Briggs" <larebe@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ghtc84t7mjc7nce6l9jb96hhes16912daq@xxxxxxxxxx


This evening, while listening to NBC News in Phoenix, AZ I heard a
report that two golfers in Flagstaff were injured when lightning
struck a tree they were under while seeking shelter from a storm. Part
of the tree fell on them, pinning one of them underneath.

A nearby homeowner helped by using a chainsaw to free the one man.
They were both transported to a hospital where it was noted that,
though battered and unable to remember much of what happened... they
could remember their golf scores! :)
--

Loudon R. Briggs larebe@xxxxxxx Phoenix, AZ

They must have been tied. Otherwise one of them would have forgotten.


LOL!
.



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