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    Lightning strike kills hundreds of reindeer in Norway

    STOCKHOLM -- More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lighting in central Norway.

    The Norwegian Environment Agency has released eerie images showing a jumble of reindeer carcasses scattered across a small area on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. The agency says 323 animals were killed, including 70 calves, in the lightning storm Friday.

    Agency spokesman Kjartan Knutsen told The Associated Press it's not uncommon for reindeer or other wildlife to be killed by lightning strikes but this was an unusually deadly event.

    "We have not heard about such numbers before," he said Monday.

    He said reindeer tend to stay very close to each other in bad weather, which could explain how so many were killed at once.

    "I don't know if there were several lighting strikes," he said. "But it happened in one moment."

    Knutsen said the agency is now discussing what to do with the dead animals...

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lightnin...eer-in-norway/

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    Colonel should stock his fridge

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    Colonel should stock his fridge
    Send me a couple of and I'll plug in the freezer in the basement that I don't use.

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    I wonder what sin those bad Norwegian reindeer did

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    I wonder what sin those bad Norwegian reindeer did
    They failed to worship Thor, the thunder god.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    I wonder what sin those bad Norwegian reindeer did
    Interesting you should say that, some think its another sign of the times...see the 18 minute mark:


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    somebody reined on those deers parade....

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    Quote Originally Posted by wheeze View Post
    somebody reined on those deers parade....

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    Interesting you should say that, some think its another sign of the times...see the 18 minute mark:
    Those guys will interpret anything unusual as an end time sign, huh ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    I wonder what sin those bad Norwegian reindeer did
    it was so that the works of God might be displayed (John 9:3)

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