A meteorite crashes through a home in Canada, barely missing a woman's head

[Jilly_in_VA]

Ruth Hamilton had a rude awakening earlier this month when a large meteorite plunged from space, through her roof and landed in her bed.

The resident of Golden, British Columbia, woke up to the sound of a crash and her dog barking.

"I've never been so scared in my life," Hamilton, 66, told the Canadian Press of the Oct. 3 incident that occurred about 11:35 p.m. "I wasn't sure what to do so I called 911 and, when I was speaking with the operator, I flipped over my pillow and saw that a rock had slipped between two pillows."

"I didn't feel it," she told CTV News in Vancouver. "It never touched me. I had debris on my face from the drywall, but not a single scratch."

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1045990641/meteorite-canada-british-columbia-bed

[Ocelot II]

1. That would certainly get your attention.

[3Hotdogs]

2. Ya wonder. Did God protect her or is God pissed at her for something?

Maybe I should set up a D.U. vote.

[Bev54]

7. Canadian - we don't believe that everything that happens is god's will

[SCantiGOP]

10. Old joke:

A guy shanks a tee shot on the first hole and yells “Goddamn it!” before it even lands in the woods. One of his foursome asks him politely not to take the Lord’s name in vain since that is prohibited by the Bible.
A couple of holes later, the guy has his game back on track, and has a short putt for a birdie. He walks up, taps it with one hand and sees it roll just past the hole. “Goddamn it, I missed,” he yells. Suddenly, a bolt of lightening comes from the clear sky and strikes the man who earlier complained about the bad language, killing him instantly.
A booming voice rings out from the heavens: “Goddamn it, I missed.”

[underpants]

3. Whew! She almost missed hockey season

, eh?

[vanlassie]

4. She should buy a lottery ticket just in case.

[Bev54]

8. Just maybe that is her lottery ticket if she wants to sell it.

[Jeebo]

5. She might need that $50 to $127 grand to fix her house.

How much damage did it do to her house? Does her homeowners' insurance cover meteorite damage?

-- Ron

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. They might consider it

an "act of God" or something.

[Bayard]

9. Yeah.....I hate when that happens.

[GReedDiamond]

11. "It turns out that the 2.8-pound space rock, about the size of a small cabbage...

...was part of a meteor shower."

I'd take the cabbage over the meteorite, given a choice of what to be hit in the head with. Or even almost hit.

At least I could give the cabbage to my girlfriend, and she would most likely consume it.

I hate cabbage - especially extraterrestrial cabbage.