# Why did one man's house get hit by meteorites six times? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 17, 2015, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407 "2015-07-17T11:10:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407/21 "2015-07-17T23:02:43Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > “He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 71 over an unrequited love.” > Christ. If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407/22 "2015-07-17T23:24:43Z")
“We need no hurricane We need no act of God To destroy our city We can do that for ourselves.” Bertolt Brecht Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407/23 "2015-07-17T23:51:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Just wait until their parents find out they are throwing rocks at people. > :dubious: At least they aren’t throwing them in the quarry. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407/24 "2015-07-17T23:54:13Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > At least they aren’t throwing them in the quarry. Well, that is some consolation at moments like this. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407/25 "2015-07-18T00:19:47Z")
Because he just moved in yesterday. Let’s see how many he gets hit with tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407/26 "2015-07-18T02:06:26Z")
_ **Why did one man’s house get hit by meteorites six times?** _ Really? You really have to ask why this guy’s house was hit by meteorites six times? First of all, the meteorites were not targeting the man’s house; they were targeting the man. The house just got in the way. God doesn’t like Bosnians that is for sure, particularly Bosnians with weird names. But, that isn’t the main reason the man was struck six times by God with meteorites. The Bosnian man was struck by meteorites because he is obviously a chronic masturbator. God really doesn’t like Bosnian masturbators with weird names. However, even chronic Bosnian masturbators with weird names don’t usually get struck 6 times with meteorites—3 or 4 is typically the limit. No, this Bosnian masturbator with the weird name obviously takes his masturbatory practices to a degenerative level so high that God had no choice but to smite him with the maximum number of meteorite strikes. My scientifically educated guess is that, when the Bosnian man with the weird name engages in auto-flagrante delicto, he thinks about that notoriously degenerative Teletubbie, Tinky Winky. I predict the Bosnian will continue to be struck with meteorites until he either refrains from masturbating, or thinks about someone normal and suitable for masturbatory pursuits, like My Little Pony, T_wilight Sparkle_. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407/27 "2015-07-18T02:14:49Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Jesus? These are just the _warning_ meteors. Next time, God’s dropping a boulder. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407/28 "2015-07-18T02:21:05Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > _ **Why did one man’s house get hit by meteorites six times?** _ > > Really? > > You really have to ask why this guy’s house was hit by meteorites six times? > > First of all, the meteorites were not targeting the man’s house; they were targeting the man. The house just got in the way. > > God doesn’t like Bosnians that is for sure, particularly Bosnians with weird names. But, that isn’t the main reason the man was struck six times by God with meteorites. > > The Bosnian man was struck by meteorites because he is obviously a chronic masturbator. God really doesn’t like Bosnian masturbators with weird names. However, even chronic Bosnian masturbators with weird names don’t usually get struck 6 times with meteorites—3 or 4 is typically the limit. > > No, this Bosnian masturbator with the weird name obviously takes his masturbatory practices to a degenerative level so high that God had no choice but to smite him with the maximum number of meteorite strikes. > > My scientifically educated guess is that, when the Bosnian man with the weird name engages in auto-flagrante delicto, he thinks about that notoriously degenerative Teletubbie, Tinky Winky. > > I predict the Bosnian will continue to be struck with meteorites until he either refrains from masturbating, or thinks about someone normal and suitable for masturbatory pursuits, like My Little Pony, T_wilight Sparkle_. Waiter! I’ll have what he is drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407/29 "2015-07-18T02:26:56Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Waiter! > I’ll have what he is drinking. _[Brompton Cocktail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brompton_cocktail) for two, garçon!_ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407/30 "2015-07-18T02:44:22Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > _[Brompton Cocktail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brompton_cocktail) for two, garçon!_ I could do with that. Ankylosing spodilitis here, and simponi is taking a while to work. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407/31 "2015-07-18T02:58:08Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Weird things happen. [Roy Sullivan was hit by lightning seven times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Sullivan). [There is a woman who won the Texas lottery 4 separate times as well for a total payout of over $20 million](http://abcnews.go.com/Business/texas-woman-wins-millions-lottery-fourth-time/story?id=11097894). Of course, she is also a very reclusive Stanford educated statistics PhD as well so things might not be quite as unlikely as the one in eighteen septillion advertised odds seem to suggest. They say that the lottery is a tax on people really bad at math. See may be the antithesis to that corollary but it is still remarkable in any case. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407/32 "2015-07-18T03:11:09Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I could do with that. Ankylosing spodilitis here, and simponi is taking a while to work. > 🙂 Well, you may have to include a diagnosis like pancreatic cancer along with your ankylosing spondylitis‎ to be included in the Brompton cocktail club, but good luck. 😃 Long ago, I used to compound it and sell it, legally (pre-med PharmD). …but, you know how all good chefs should constantly taste what they’re cooking, right? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407/33 "2015-07-18T05:23:04Z")
It appears that the chance of any given home being struck by a meteorite in a given year is about one in a billion. This guy claimed that his house has been struck by six of them within three years. Not only is it absurdly unlikely that one house has been struck by six meteors in three years, it appears that it would be untypical for six meteors to strike houses within three years. There is no way for magnetism to affect where meteors strike. This guy is either crazy or a liar. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-one-mans-house-get-hit-by-meteorites-six-times/725407.md?page=1)