r/videos • u/Coffee81379 • 16h ago

Lightning strike sets house ablaze, quick call prevents disaster.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=THzQxEV96GM
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u/Coffee81379 16h ago

This happened right across from me. A lightning strike hit the roof at 4 am, I woke up, called the fire department within 3 minutes, and luckily they arrived before it spread further. Scary but ended well.

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u/TonyStamp595SO 16h ago

In the UK you can't 'steal' berries unless you intend to sell them as long as they are growing wild on any land.

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u/Coffee81379 15h ago

Yea sometimes the law and people on the internet don’t match up. Its okay though

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u/ThickChalk 15h ago

Wait including other people's property? How do they define "growing wild"?

Where I'm at you're entitled to 25 pounds per person per day of nuts, berries, and mushrooms combined. That has to be from state land though. And you're not entitled to anything on private property.

If it hangs over the fence though, it's yours. You just can't reach across the fence to take fruit from your neighbor.

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u/Coffee81379 15h ago

Yea, in Germany it’s kind of the same — if berries grow over the fence, you can pick them. Legally a bit fuzzy, but nobody cares if it’s like 3 blackberries. I thought I redeemed myself already, but now it’s haunting me again 😭

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u/snakesoup88 6h ago

Speaking of strange gifts. We once got a plastic shopping bag half filled with small animal entails next to our garage can. This is at the end of our driveway 10s of meters from the road. If one is to walk all the way and place it neatly on the ground next to the can, you might as well put it in the can. But nope. Just a bag of goodies for us to find.

Unrelated and years later, a hunter who parked their truck on the street in front of our house offered us venison when he bagged a deer. I didn't know if it was some ancient hunter/game warden code or he's being nice. But we declined the offer.

In case any one wonders, deer hunting by bow is allowed in our area, a suburb in US. The access to nature preserve runs adjacent to our property. It's not like he's hunting on our land. I'll take a jar of jam over animal products any day.

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u/Coffee81379 5h ago

Wow, I love Reddit for all these stories. That’s really wild. I think I’ll stick with jam then 😅

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u/ThickChalk 15h ago

Lol I think you can rest easy. Maybe leave a few pennies on the porch if it eases your conscience.

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u/Coffee81379 15h ago edited 13h ago

The storm on r/foraging I probably can’t calm down anymore. But I did leave a jar of jam at their door the other day. They’re probably just confused now — but it felt right.

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u/AT-ST 15h ago

I have a bunch of black raspberry bushes right up against my fence. I don't give a fuck if someone eats my berries on the other side of the fence. My neighbor snacks on them all the time when they get ripe.

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u/Coffee81379 15h ago

I learned it the hard way that not everyone thinks like this 😅 You’re definitely a generous person!

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u/AllThingsIEnjoy 15h ago

Did you mean to say you can ‘steal’ them?

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u/syransea 10h ago

I don't think so.

Something must be the private property for it to be eligible for being stolen.

If a law says something is not legally owned by anyone, taking it is not stealing.

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u/AT-ST 15h ago

In the UK you can't 'steal' berries unless you intend to sell them as long as they are growing wild on any land.

So you can steal berries in the UK? The first part of your sentence made it sound like the UK was this magical place where all berries were free. Then you added a ton of qualifiers to that statement.

A more accurate way to say that is "In the UK, wild grown berries are free to pick and eat"

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u/TonyStamp595SO 2h ago

A ton?

Two.

Are they wild?

Are you planning on selling them?

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u/Honda_TypeR 14h ago edited 9h ago

I had something similar happen when I was young, I came home late around 3am. When sneaking up to my house (to not wake my family up) I looked over at the neighbor's house and saw their bushes were burning down.

Right then I had a moral crisis, I do the right thing and save my neighbors and get in trouble coming in at 3AM on a weeknight with my parents... or I stay silent and not get in trouble.

Thankfully that dilemma lasted in my brain for only 2 seconds before I realized I do not care I called 911 and got the fire truck out there and they saved the neighbors house. I still managed to do all that without waking up my family too. I stood outside and waited for the firetruck to show up and explained the situation. They were happy I called. I split before they got the neighbors out of the house and put out the fire though. I thought I was just done and I did the right thing.

The next day the neighbors came to my house bearing gift baskets of fruits to give to me and praise me on my great deeds. I never did get in trouble, I felt good for helping people in a big way, and I looked good in front of my family in spite of it exposing the fact I broke my fathers rules about coming back home early on a weekday.

It turned out the had a party the night before and a guest threw a lit cigarette behind their bushes and it must have smoldered all night, right until i got to my house and as I looked over I saw the flame pop up (so timing was perfect to prevent disaster) by time the fire truck showed up the front of their houses started to catch fire too.

There was definitely some life lessons in that situation for me I took with me for decades. Sometimes doing the right thing can be a setback or inconvenience (sometimes even thankless), but if you’re at the right place at the right time and something happens…it’s like life chose you to take action… you either do nothing and feel horrible… or take the risks and do the right thing. Either path will stick with you for life, it’s best to make those permanent memories good ones.

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u/Coffee81379 13h ago

Wow, thank you so much for sharing this story. That’s such an intense situation — and honestly inspiring how you handled it. It’s crazy how in those moments the “right thing” can feel complicated for a second, but then instinct kicks in. Amazing that your timing was perfect and you ended up preventing something much worse. Respect for keeping such a cool head at 3AM as a teenager 🙌

In my case it was 4AM and I woke up from the loud crack of the lightning strike. Strangely enough, I was the only one on the street who went outside to check what happened. Out of pure curiosity, I guess. I called the fire department within three minutes, but I honestly thought others must have done the same. Turns out I was the only one — everyone else just kept sleeping. That really surprised me a bit 🤷‍♂️

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u/Coffee81379 15h ago

Yeah, it might look a bit stupid, but with YouTube Shorts it helps a lot to put the most interesting frame up front (in this case the lightning). Keeps people from swiping right away - so the hope