Jun 12 2009Questionable: Boy Is Allegedly Hit By Meteorite, Lives To Tell Spread Lies About It
Allegedly Gerrit Blank, 14, of Essen, Germany, got hit by a pea-sized meteorite on his way to school.
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.
"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.
Jesus, Gerrit, so you didn't finish your book report, it's not that big a deal.
14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite [telegraph]
Thanks to catch22, Texico and Joemo, who have all been hit in the face with real UFO's and never missed a class.
Reader Comments
1. Timbo - June 12, 2009 3:51 PM
i want a UFO
2. Jimmy - June 12, 2009 3:51 PM
So did he just get PEW PEWed by an alien?
3. Timbo - June 12, 2009 3:52 PM
It would be my best friend...until it tried probing me then I'd text it saying we're not BFF's anymore
4. Bob - June 12, 2009 3:52 PM
Yeah, I highly doubt it...Oh and, FIRST!
5. Logos - June 12, 2009 3:53 PM
The odds of getting hit by a meteorite are 1 in a million? That's better odds than winning the lotto. So approximately 6300 people on this planet have been hit by a meteorite? Were they all long-haired German hippies?
6. naas - June 12, 2009 3:55 PM
Daisy's going to tear this one a new one
@4 yeah you highly doubt wha...... whaaat do you hiiiiiighllllly dooouuubbbt.....? Oh and, YOU SUCK
7. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 12, 2009 3:56 PM
That's no meteorite! It's Goliath's spit ball!
8. naas - June 12, 2009 3:57 PM
sorry I had to.
I fear being hit by meteorites all the time, seriously. It's probably the weed
9. 24-bit whore - June 12, 2009 3:57 PM
@GFS hahahaha
10. Ollie Williams - June 12, 2009 4:02 PM
That's a dude?
11. Stuey - June 12, 2009 4:15 PM
Don't even say Dai$ys name or she will appear in a magic slut cloud.
12. Sashimi Tidbits - June 12, 2009 4:16 PM
That is so unreal. But what an epic tale for him to tell in the future: of him getting literally hit by a meteorite. :]
http://www.sashimi-tidbits.com/
13. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 12, 2009 4:17 PM
@5 - No, the odds of surviving being hit by a meteorite are one in a million. This kid is the only recorded incident of being hit directly by a meteorite (without it hitting something else first) in any recent press.
14. Vanilla - June 12, 2009 4:17 PM
Yeah, because things travelling at 30,000 mph just tend to bounce right off human flesh.
15. Todo - June 12, 2009 4:21 PM
The whole 1 millon to 1 ratio also counts in the factor of a large metorite hitting earth which means if one hit say new york city and 6 million people get hit by or affected by said metorite. Then those odds really do work.
16. naas - June 12, 2009 4:26 PM
I don't buy it & I agree Ollie that is questionable
17. Erica - June 12, 2009 4:26 PM
Agreed with Vanilla. How could it impact his flesh leaving a couple of inches of scarring and then go on to leave a goddamn crater in the ground? His hand shouldve been cratered.
18. Adam - June 12, 2009 4:30 PM
you know, if my kid looked like that I'd beat him too. Also, someone needs to tell this kids parents that "I was hit by a meteorite" is not as good of an excuse as "I fell down some stairs"
19. meowmo - June 12, 2009 4:31 PM
ok, so at first my sporadic dyslexia kicked in and i thought this was an article about a 'questionable' boy.
why does this 'boy' have a hand after such an event? i doubt there was any bouncing off-ness. even the kid's own account confirms the meteor was traveling faster than the speed of sound.
20. Logos - June 12, 2009 4:40 PM
@13 if this is the only recorded incident of someone being hit by a meteor then wouldn't the odds of survival be... 1? lol.
21. Mike Freeman - June 12, 2009 4:41 PM
fake....it's viral marketing from Cloverfield 2
22. Daisy - June 12, 2009 4:57 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong,.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max and Baja were riding on his moped, and Baja fell off. She scraped her leg, and pulled her pants down to show max, who remarked, "that's a nasty gash you got there Baja."
23. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 12, 2009 5:10 PM
20 - It works every time, 60% of the time. Don't you love statistics? Fact is, we'll have to wait untill 1 million people have been hit directly by a meteiorite before we know the real number.
24. pstone - June 12, 2009 5:16 PM
that story didn't answer any of the important questions
1. did he get super powers (he obviously did)
2. what kind of powers
3. what kind of costume
Unless he wants to keep them a secret.
Actually, I bet this is a viral marketing scheme to promote the re-release of the 1993 Robert Townsend movie, The Meteor Man.
Isn't there also a meteorite related Shaw movie too?
25. pstone - June 12, 2009 5:18 PM
*I meant ShaQ
26. nasa science lab tech - June 12, 2009 5:29 PM
this is the stupidest thing I've heard in the last hour. So, this idiot claims to have been hit by a rock from space and only got a minor injury from it? Oh, yeah, it shouldn't have torn his hand completely off or anything. This is just like when that guy got hit by a bus on the LA freeway and only got a papercut on his thumb from the whole thing. Amazingly enough, the bus was only traveling about 65 mph when it hit him so, by laws of physics and science, he only got a papercut.
In order for him to sustain any type of injury requiring more than a band-aid and a kiss from mommy, that meteorite would've needed to be traveling at rad to the power of sick, cubed , times infinity. Everyone knows that.
27. lol - June 12, 2009 5:35 PM
your damn right Daisey
28. thecheesypoofs - June 12, 2009 6:08 PM
Was he a boy before being hit by it and then turned a girl ?
'cause looking at the picture ...
29. Lord of the horse beaters - June 12, 2009 6:36 PM
LIES! The mark on his arm is a masturbation wound! HE DID IT WRONG AND PAID THE PRICE!
30. Pew³ - June 12, 2009 6:53 PM
I think the article was written wrong.
The boy was hit by moissanite.
Another boy thought he was a girl and tried to propose with a cheap rock. When he found out it was a boy, he got mad and threw it at him.
I think my story makes a lot more sense.
31. Tennist0 - June 12, 2009 7:08 PM
I'm no astrologer, but I'm sure no piece of rock, pea-sized anyway, has a terminal velocity fast enough to do shit
32. Tennist0 - June 12, 2009 7:09 PM
@29...doing it wrong can be deadly, he was a lucky one
33. Truk - June 12, 2009 7:11 PM
I think there's a misplaces semi colon in there... should read "questionable boy"
34. Your Mother's Lover - June 12, 2009 8:48 PM
I think the obvious truth is that when this thing hit the ground, a piece of debris flew up and scratched this little girl's hand. Now she was probably confused and her overly active prepubescent imagination went crazy. You see, she never got much attention from the boys at her school and her parents are jobless crackheads, so this was her one moment to become something more than a pathetic little outcast. So she fabricated this story, that baby jesus's bullet shot down from heaven and scratched her little hand. Now she's instantly popular, and her parents are raking in the cash. It's so obvious...
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36. Alex - June 13, 2009 9:52 AM
It would be my best friend...
37. patrick - June 13, 2009 10:51 AM
Shame that they DID find the stone and it has been confirmed its a meteorite, also he needed several stitches in his hand, so he was not unharmed.
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39. Dave - June 13, 2009 11:20 AM
or maybe some1 just threw a rock at him cause hes an idiot.
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40. TallDude - June 13, 2009 3:48 PM
so THATS how Carrot Top became the freak that he is!
41. jojo - June 13, 2009 8:41 PM
the meteorite would be COLD not hot.
42. DoubleP90 - June 13, 2009 9:15 PM
LAST!!
43. Breakup Makeup - June 14, 2009 12:36 AM
.........................
44. Dan - June 14, 2009 11:54 AM
Boy? o_0
45. Tom - June 15, 2009 5:18 AM
At risk of sounding like a total moron, who the funk is Daisy?!
And, if the meteor made a little hole in the ground, why didn't anyone take a photo? There isn't even a photo of the guy's scar! So what, a picture of a German teen is the only 'proof' we have that this even happened!?
...Sorry, this makes me MAD >:|
@34 - I know, right? Why can't anyone see this?!
46. Jaded Icon - June 15, 2009 7:53 AM
@ 45
If you doubt it why don't you look at other news sources. I first found out about it from Fox and CNN sites. So stop being mad.....unless you can't because your the opposite of the HULK. When you're calm you have incredible strength, but since you don't wan't to crush kittens when you pet them you get mad at everything. That it, isn't it?
47. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 15, 2009 9:33 AM
41 - You are too dumb for words.
48. Rhialto - June 15, 2009 10:24 AM
It could be possible.The only curious thing is that the meteorite 'bounched' from his hand but caused a crater in the ground.
49. Darth - June 15, 2009 10:25 AM
Does he have any superpowers now?
50. kryonik - June 16, 2009 4:34 PM
Alright if this meteorite did manage to leave a foot sized crater AND make a sound so loud it made his ears ring for hours, it would not have glanced off his hand no matter what the angle. It would have went straight through.
51. Splinterman - June 19, 2009 9:53 AM
@41
You are the dumbest person i have seen, it would be cold before it went into the atmosphere, but do you know fast moving objects BURN up when it enters the atmosphere? Go back to science class jesus christ.
Also, i think i have a solution, I think the meteor just scratched the side of his hand while he was walking, not really "bounced" this is not the first time the News has f***ed up their stories though.
Also, what makes my mind spin (i could be wrong) is the terminal velocity of the object, if the object was a pea-sized meteorite, the terminal velocity would not even dent human skin. Take a penny for an example, you know the myth and everything where a person drops a penny from the Empire State building and kills someone on the bottom? Yeah, not gonna happen, it will just simply bounce off the skin. I could be easily wrong on this since I am not a scientist...