Thor is being sued by a man who was unable to hear him shout ‘fore’ before he threw lightning across a golfing green.
Going golfing in bad weather is never a great idea, especially if there’s going to be lightning. The large open spaces are susceptible to strikes. Holding onto a large bag of metal clubs is never going to improve your chances, either. A young man found out the hard way that golfing in a lightning storm can turn out to be a fatal mistake.
Simon Mariani was playing a few holes with his dad at the Ballyowen golf course in Hardyston. The weather began to worsen, and they stood to watch the clouds roll in. Brian Delia, who was golfing with his friends when lightning struck, recalled the moments before disaster.
“I was like ‘is this going to be a tornado that’s actually happening? ‘” he told ABC7. “One of the guys that we were golfing with, he works at another golf course, and he was like ‘we need to get out of here.”
The victim of the golfing lightning strike was only about 300 yards in front of him when he was hit. They had all been watching the storm for about half an hour as it rolled in. “I started filming, and he was right in front of me, and all of a sudden the lightning strikes and I ended the video recording and we immediately just started heading back to the clubhouse.”
Father Devastated At Golfing Tragedy
The father of the unlucky golfer could do nothing as he watched his son taken away by emergency services. “I can only imagine what he was going through. He was being driven off the golf course to, I guess, the hospital where his son was being helicopter lifted to,” the eyewitness recalled.
Mariani was airlifted to a nearby hospital but succumbed to his injuries. He was only 28 years old and has left behind a grieving family.
The chances of getting hit by lightning are slim, but they’re never zero. It’s always a good idea to get out of the way of approaching storms. You never know when it’s going to be your unlucky day.