I read your guest’s letter’s about being able to turn off street light’s when passing close to them, and I also read your rather sarcastic response and I would tell you and everyone else that does not believe in this to keep an open mind, the minute that you close your mind to new possibility’s it is like putting the brakes on a car…you have ended your chance of learning anything new…I am one of the people that can turn off street light’s…not every light will go off…about one in 8 to 10…and then they will come back on once I have passed…it happen’s at a distance of about 150 to 300 foot, and if I stay under one of the light’s that I have turned off it will try to come back on, flicker, grow super bright (about 10 time’s it’s normal brightness) this will happen over and over again, I would be happy to prove it to you…bring a camera and a open mind…you have my e-mail address…
Welcome to the SDMB, LEECAT. It’s customary to provide a link when commenting on a column so everyone can easily follow along. I did a search and presume this is the column you’re commenting on.
Can some people extinguish streetlamps by means of their bodily emanations?
Also, note that the column was written in 1994.
OP: why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near?
OP, is that where you find all of your apostrophes? In the dark?
Just like me, they want to be, in the dark.
Which OP is apparently capable of generating, mystically.
Seems like the start of a superhero story, if you ask me.
OP: When come back, bring understanding of “post-hoc fallacy” and “confirmation bias”.
Do you understand that this is what overheating (or going bad) lights do regardless of you standing near them? This is the designed failure mode (or so I’m told).