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Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now is a gentleman

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Speaker 1: who actually got hit by lightning two fridays ago, as

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Speaker 1: I understand it, at Gateway shopping Center. Lez Helstone joins

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Speaker 1: me on the line. Get a lez hey, hey, you

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Speaker 1: go not bad mate.

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Speaker 2: What happened three point thirty two fridays ago in the

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Speaker 2: car park? Got hit by lightning? Are by lightning through

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Speaker 2: my car? Oh my goodness, unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk us through what happened. You were sitting in

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Speaker 1: your car and what there was a storm around? Was it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a storm and everything and a lot

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Speaker 2: of lightning. So I got out of my car and

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Speaker 2: I went around the back of it and I opened

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Speaker 2: the back, got an umbrella out. Well, no shuttered, the

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Speaker 2: key was in the in the key hole still. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And when I and then it sort of struck then

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Speaker 2: and then sort of when a struggle went back and

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Speaker 2: it disconnected me from the from the strike. Here, doctor said,

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Speaker 2: I was really lucky.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Lise, I've never spoken to somebody who's

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Speaker 1: been struck by lightning before. Are you okay?

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Speaker 2: First day, I really saw a third day a little

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Speaker 2: bit delusional. Then Monday and that just sort of started

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Speaker 2: getting better. I was really tired on one side, on

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Speaker 2: the right hand side, right up right up to the

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Speaker 2: top of me, the bottom of my head, past my

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Speaker 2: ear stretched out, you know, weirdest feeling.

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Speaker 1: Now, I understand that you've just seen the CCTV footageat

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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 2: I've seen it yesterday.

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Speaker 1: What was that like to say?

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Speaker 2: That's why I'm telling Peter, They like, you can't get

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Speaker 2: any you know, letter. I wasn't allowed to take it

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Speaker 2: or get a film or ending like that, or get

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Speaker 2: a copy of it because of legal reasons and all

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Speaker 2: this kind of stuff. But they wrote me a letter

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Speaker 2: and stated that I actually got hit, because anybody can

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Speaker 2: tell you they got hit. Yeah, but you know, and

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Speaker 2: they said that they first of all, we couldn't see

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Speaker 2: a little I couldn't see a little lightning, yep. And

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Speaker 2: then when we then looked over and over again and

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Speaker 2: you can see you at the same time a white

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Speaker 2: light come up at the bottom and at the exact

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Speaker 2: same time I sort of jolped and got stepped back

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Speaker 2: a couple of steps.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Liz, what was it like for you then sort

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Speaker 1: of watching that vision and you know, having it confirmed

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Speaker 1: exactly what had gone.

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Speaker 2: On, Ah, that's unbelievable. Like, I can't. I can't believe it.

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Speaker 2: The doctors they told me, they said, you need You're

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Speaker 2: so lucky that you had thongs on because it pretty

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Speaker 2: much saved your life.

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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you that exactly that how

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Speaker 1: you alive to tell this tale.

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Speaker 2: Because of them bongs and probably because of the fact

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Speaker 2: that I had an umbrella in the left hand and

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Speaker 2: I didn't have two hands on the back of the car. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: because if I would have had two hands on the car,

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Speaker 2: I would have got sort of sort of held there.

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Speaker 2: But I had one hand and when it when it,

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Speaker 2: when it did strike, sort of pushed me back, got

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Speaker 2: a hell of a shock, But I didn't get like.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I would have got the full full

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Speaker 2: blunder it. If I would have, I wouldn't be talking

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Speaker 2: to you in our suppose do you remember me, I'd

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Speaker 2: done the T shirts, I've done the night four shirts

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Speaker 2: and less. Yes there, Oh mate.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe that you got bloody hit by lightning.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe it either.

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Speaker 1: And you're alive to tell the tale. Did you go

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Speaker 1: buy a lot of ticket? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I won seven bucks, got a gun by a lot

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Speaker 2: of tickets because you know you're you're lucky. And I said, okay,

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Speaker 2: I went and bought it.

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, well I'm going to give you a territory

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Speaker 1: and of the week. I reckon that's a better price.

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Speaker 1: That is a beautiful hamper, which is which is it's

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Speaker 1: a beautiful care package supplied by Nevil at Parrap fine

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Speaker 1: foods with gourmet goodness for your goodness. And I tell

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Speaker 1: you what, I think that's much better going than your

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Speaker 1: seven bucks on your lotto tickets.

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Speaker 2: My life, my life, Liz, I just.

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Speaker 1: Can't believe it. Like you know, you sort of here,

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Speaker 1: like I think you hear a lot or you're sort

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Speaker 1: of hearing the news at different times that that somebody

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Speaker 1: has been struck by lightning. But then to actually speak

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Speaker 1: to someone who's been struck by lightning right here in

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Speaker 1: Darwin or in Palmerstan and and that you've survived to

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Speaker 1: tell the tale, it's it's just astonishing.

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Speaker 2: Well with all the lightning around, you know, it's one

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Speaker 2: that doesn't have more often. I can you know they're

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Speaker 2: walking in everywhere. I'm a bit suss now. I don't

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Speaker 2: really want to get on a plane no more, just

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Speaker 2: in case it gets suit by lightning. Well, you know,

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Speaker 2: I go out cutting ditches and all that kind of stuff,

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Speaker 2: and you wouldn't. Yeah, loads of lightning. I never had

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Speaker 2: no worries. I don't think it'll be doing it no more?

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Speaker 1: No les myke, what kind of of rubber songs have

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Speaker 1: you got? I think is what everybody is wondering and

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Speaker 1: wondering if they need to go get themselves a pair.

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Speaker 2: I think that they cost two dollars. You know what

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Speaker 2: I'm going to do with him? I'm going to put

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Speaker 2: them in a put them in a put them in

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Speaker 2: a frame, an just keep them forever.

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Speaker 1: I freaking I would.

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Speaker 2: I said that to my family.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what was their reaction and what's their reaction being?

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Speaker 1: Then after seeing the CCTV or I don't know whether

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Speaker 1: they've seen it, but you know what's their reaction been?

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Speaker 1: You know, over this whole thing, I'll.

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Speaker 2: Get all the relations and cousins ringing up, joking about it,

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Speaker 2: and all this kind of stuff telling me how to

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Speaker 2: have I asking me if I got super powers and

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Speaker 2: all this kind of stuff. Now, but then right down

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Speaker 2: to earth, my like, this is a story on the

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Speaker 2: on the on the Sunday, I was driving the car

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Speaker 2: after I got shot over to Danila Dilba because I

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Speaker 2: went into I went into the gateway and they were

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Speaker 2: sort of just like really too busy, and I was

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Speaker 2: sort of standing up there looking like a whatever, and

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Speaker 2: I said, I said, oh, buet this. I just jumped

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Speaker 2: over there. And my wife said to me, because we

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Speaker 2: are you going? And I said, I'm going to I'm

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Speaker 2: down the halls and she said, well, you're going the

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Speaker 2: wrong way. Can you get out and let me drive? Please?

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Speaker 2: So that kind of thing happens too, so and then

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Speaker 2: what happened? You sure, yeah, sure, well I tell you

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Speaker 2: when I've seen it. Now that I've seen that, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to talk about it, because you know what people

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Speaker 2: and I go yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, whatever.

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Speaker 1: But you're saying it well, as you've said, it really

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Speaker 1: did happen. And you've obviously been to see the doctor.

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Speaker 1: You've seen that CC TV as well. It sounds like

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Speaker 1: it was bloody frightening, Les, and a bit of a

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Speaker 1: warning I think for all of us that you do

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Speaker 1: need to be, you know, a bit bit careful when

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Speaker 2: Sure do, yeah, will be from there on. And I

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Speaker 2: bet I can sit in the room now, in the house, now,

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Speaker 2: in the well outside in the light and come on

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Speaker 2: just go inside.

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Speaker 1: Yeah I would do, mate, Les, we are going to

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Speaker 1: have to leave it there. Thanks so much for giving

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Speaker 1: us a call and making us aware of what had

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Speaker 1: gone on. And yet a bit of a warning for everybody,

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Speaker 1: I reckon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, so what does it mean when you

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Speaker 2: like what did you say about territory?

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Speaker 1: Oh you're well, you're our territory and of the week.

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Speaker 1: So if you stay on hold, I'll get Daniel to

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Speaker 1: get all your details and you'll be able to pick

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Speaker 1: up a beautiful hamper from perap Fine Foods. Big thanks

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Speaker 1: to Neville from perap Fine Foods.

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Speaker 2: When I go there, i'll produce my my letter.

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Speaker 1: Well, good on you. Thank you so much, Les for

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Speaker 1: having a chat with us this morning. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Thank you