Lightning Video - real or fake?

[Lautermilch]

I see some of the comments saying this is fake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCbk-IOYsc

What is your opinion?

[Downlinerz2]

    I am not 100% positive by anymeans but I am leaning towards it being real.  The rumbling thunder after the initial crack seems real.  Very Interesting as they used to say on "Laugh In".

[Aardvark]

looked like a discharge off the ignition coil..  I think Binky is more fried than shocked

[ocala]

I saw that one before. I say real.

[mackbig]

I say real.  No real point to making a fake like this.   You could have set it up much better if you were "making" a movie.  You can also hear a car alarm or something going off for a few seconds after the clap.

Here is better quality "original".  Caution language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkaS7mf2hrI

Andrew

[Weather Display]

if you pause and go frame by frame, you can see the white over powering the camera from up and beyond the bike
I say real
a close strike sounds like that.,...like a shot gun going off

[offroadjosh]

Real it was on real tv and a few other shows. I think thats close enough to fill your drawers lol.


Josh

[Aardvark]

I wonder if the guy got any superpowers from the zap?   

[kray1000]

I say real also.

I was about that far away once (inside a building, thankfully) when an even bigger flash hit a transformer at our apartment complex.  (That one set off car alarms too.    ) 

Lightning that close does sound just like that.  In fact you will have already reacted to the crash of the thunder before you actually notice the flash.

This guy was a more blasé about it than I would have been.  I don't think I would have been standing outside with a camera talking about it while it was still thundering.

[SlowModem]

I wonder if the guy got any superpowers from the zap?   

Like Chevy Chase in Modern Problems