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A Kansas man was struck by lightning hours after winning Mega Millions
lottery tickets, proving in real life the old saying that a gambler is more
likely to be struck down from the sky than win the jackpot.
Bill Isles, 48, bought three tickets in the record $656 million lottery
Thursday at a Wichita, Kan., grocery store.
On the way to his car, Isles said he commented to a friend: "I've got a
better chance of getting struck by lightning" than winning the lottery.
Later at about 9:30 p.m., Isles was standing in the back yard of his Wichita
duplex, when he saw a flash and heard a boom -- lightning.
"It threw me to the ground quivering," Isles said in a telephone interview
on Saturday. "It kind of scrambled my brain and gave me an irregular
heartbeat."
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Isles, a volunteer weather spotter for the National Weather Service, had his
portable ham radio with him because he was checking the skies for storm
activity. He crawled on the ground to get the radio, which had been thrown
from his hand.
Isles had been talking to other spotters on the radio and called in about
the lightning strike. One of the spotters, a local television station intern
, called 911. Isles was taken by ambulance to a hospital and kept overnight
for observation.
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Isles said doctors wanted to make sure his heartbeat was back to normal. He
suffered no burns or other physical effects from the strike, which he said
could have been worse because his yard has a power line pole and wires
overhead.
lottery tickets, proving in real life the old saying that a gambler is more
likely to be struck down from the sky than win the jackpot.
Bill Isles, 48, bought three tickets in the record $656 million lottery
Thursday at a Wichita, Kan., grocery store.
On the way to his car, Isles said he commented to a friend: "I've got a
better chance of getting struck by lightning" than winning the lottery.
Later at about 9:30 p.m., Isles was standing in the back yard of his Wichita
duplex, when he saw a flash and heard a boom -- lightning.
"It threw me to the ground quivering," Isles said in a telephone interview
on Saturday. "It kind of scrambled my brain and gave me an irregular
heartbeat."
Winners in Kan., Ill., Md. share record Mega Millions pot
Isles, a volunteer weather spotter for the National Weather Service, had his
portable ham radio with him because he was checking the skies for storm
activity. He crawled on the ground to get the radio, which had been thrown
from his hand.
Isles had been talking to other spotters on the radio and called in about
the lightning strike. One of the spotters, a local television station intern
, called 911. Isles was taken by ambulance to a hospital and kept overnight
for observation.
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Isles said doctors wanted to make sure his heartbeat was back to normal. He
suffered no burns or other physical effects from the strike, which he said
could have been worse because his yard has a power line pole and wires
overhead.