Boy Gets hit by 30,000 mph meteorite!
Gerrit Blank, 14, was on his way to school when he saw “ball of light” heading straight towards him from the sky.
A red hot, pea-sized piece of rock then hit his hand before bouncing off and causing a foot wide crater in the ground.
The teenager survived the strike, the chances of which are just 1 in a million - but with a nasty three-inch long scar on his hand.
He said: “At first I just saw a large ball of light, and then I suddenly felt a pain in my hand.
“Then a split second after that there was an enormous bang like a crash of thunder.”
“The noise that came after the flash of light was so loud that my ears were ringing for hours afterwards.
“When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road,” he explained.
I would never have that kind of luck. Way to go, kid.
BS. that’s a picture of a young Justine Bateman
The superpowers started appearing a few days later… And so the saga of Asteroid Boy begins.
How the hell could this have happened? Things don’t just “bounce off” your hand and leave nothing. it hit him? Suuurrrre. And I’m the king of England.
not sure if i believe this? but hm… lucky ass kid if it’s true!
He will live a charmed life from this point on. He’ll sell the meteorite to a Japanese businessman for millions of dollars (especially if it’s a pallasite meteorite). And this event will serve as creative inspiration for him… how he could have dodged this galactic bullet: a hoverboard. Yes, he will use his innate genius (and his millions) to create the coveted hoverboard, making millions of dreams come true. The End.
Holy shit. That is super scary. I really hope we know how to detect and deflect these things by the time the big one gets here.
Hey, if Apophis follows a certain route, we could see an impact in 2036, I think. Somewhere along the West Coast, too, if I’m not mistaken.
WOW how calloused is that dudes hand if a meteorite bounced off it? Guy needs to add in some lotion when he is taking care of business……smooth that out
WOW, that’s one lucky kid…….Wait what if he is lieing and he actually was the meteiorite.
Boy, Dexter was such a media whore before he started killing people…
so no flying powers for him?
It was a “Space Peanut”. He was jacking off so hard before school that his hands were warmer than normal, enough so that the heat from his hands repelled the “Space Peanut” enough to only leave a gash. The moral of the story, I guess, is that there are peanuts is space.
Hit his hand then bounced off and only left a scar?
How much does this kid masturbate in order to develop hand muscles strong enough to deflect a meteorite?
Sounds like BS, how can a meteor just bounce off his hand then make a huge crater
wow thats something to share with the kids at school to bad about his hand ouch!!!!
This is a complete load of dookie. There is no way that thing came close to him.
What a fucking fake ass story. just look at his picture ‘nough said.
Know one would ever believe him about where the scar came from though
whoa!! O.O
is that really possible?!?!??
Glad the kid is ok.I wonder if he got to keep the space rock.
Dodge!
Is this kids skin made out of Adamantium. The meteor struck and bounced off his hand. And still had enough force to create a hole in the ground. This story does not add up. I call shenanigans
Take that kid to Vegas!
you might be on to something
That to bad he could find the meteorite after it happened..It would make a great topic to pretty awesome to show off.
I think the meteorite grazed his hand and didn’t actually hit it going 30,000 mph. Anything with an appreciable mass going that fast would have gone THROUGH his hand not bounced off of it and if it left a three inch long scar on his hand it is a graze. A bullet going that fast, even with very little mass, would have blown his hand completely off with a direct hit.
Good call. The meteor probably enter the atmosphere ate 30,000 mph, but slowed down to super sonic speed.
thats….
thats just unfortunate
There are a few things wrong with this, and I’m sure most have already been discussed. How would it merely scratch his hand, but make a hole in the ground? Also, would a meteoroid even be travelling at 30,000 mph? I’d think Earth’s atmosphere would have a big effect on it, to the point where it would travel at a fraction of that speed.
That is some crazy fucked up shit, right there. How he didn’t lose the hand, nay, his life, just boggles the mind.
It would have hit me in the head
wow lucky kid
That kind of thing would look good on a resume if he was trying out for major league baseball. “I once blocked a 30,000 mph fast ball.”
meh. you should talk to my friend Magoo
I eat a whole bowl of those things for breakfast every morning. They are hard to catch too.
ok, 1 in a million and there are what, over 300 million just in the US so someone every day roughly is hit ? I mean that’s not really that rare …..
Think about it, it’s much much much less likely than 1 in a million…if it were 1 in a million there would be much more people killed by meteors than winning lotto jackpots for example.
Maybe he’s just found out that he’s “unbreakable” like Bruce Willis?
Does anyone else here see a young Carrot Top in this picture?
Wow, I was thinking the exact same thing! About the “Unbreakable” reference, not the carrot top thing.
I posted a link to Phil Plait’s blog Bad Astronomy where he breaks this down and gives his opinion on what really happened. My post is awaiting approval, but you should all do a search for it. It’s a great blog anyway and you’ll all thank me for dropping a little science on ya asses!
Cool. Does this kid now have superpowers because that would be awesome.
Seeing as how the 30,000mph pea sized rock left a 1foot crater where it landed, there is no way in hell it “hit” hit hand or remotely touched the kid. my bet is he got scared and fell off his bike, thus the “scrape”. then seeing as how something like that happened he figured he could get his 5 minutes of fame with a horrible lie that doesn’t even seem possible
I’m glad he survived, one good reason not to go towards the light, what too soon ? =(
aaand cue super powers!
WOW. he must be made of steel or something stronger for something goin 30,000 to BOUNCE off of his hand. and it mustve weighted a ton to make a crater after bouncing off of his hand.(and no im not that dumb, olivia just needs to write storys better so they make sense) I STILL LOVE YOU THOUGH
Aliens have declared war on that boy. Gonna be fun to watch how this plays out.
It bounced off his hands… he must have trampolines for his hands.. Im jealous..
well No not really.y
What a story to tell on your first dates. “Hey baby I once got hit by a meteorite.”
I’d been like “Good Lord, don’t strike me down…ha, you missed”
sounds like a scene from Dead Like Me..
“It was weird, after that astor-pebble hit me I was transformed into Justine Batement, circa 1985. “
Homeboy is a baller. Holy Christ.
The boy can’t tell a story. It sounds more like it skimmed his hand instead of hitting it. If it hit his hand, it would probably gone through it.
dude…he is gonna get superpowers!!!! why couldn’t that happen to me!
i don’t think it bounced off him.. it was prolly really close that it singed his arm(since its hot.. duh).. and he thought it hit him.. if it did hit him.. he wouldn’t have a arm anymore..
He will become a superhero or supervillain
Bullpucky… This has already been debunked.