Biker gets zapped/charred by lightening strike

[Top_Speed1]

I always fear this when riding through a thunderstorm and there is no cover...

Motorcyclist struck by lightning

NOAA bulletin on lightening (outdoors)

 

[Tyler]

YIKES!!! I remember riding on I5 a few years ago near Yreka and there was a lightning storm... there were strikes about a half mile away and I was as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs... gunned it and got to our hotel in record time!!

 

[Ignacio]

Just figured out who they really are. A convicted felon that goes by a variety of aliases, but real name is Michael Gasper with about 30 cases to his credit in Washington alone. I have to admit he is a very accomplished LD motorcycle rider with hundreds of thousands of miles under his belt, but wonder if somebody is pissed at him?

 

[rushes]

YIKES!!! I remember riding on I5 a few years ago near Yreka and there was a lightning storm... there were strikes about a half mile away and I was as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs... gunned it and got to our hotel in record time!!

+1 on the gun it...

I've always figgered a faster moving target is tougher to hit.

It's worked so far!

*knocks on wood*

 

[Tyler]

Just figured out who they really are. A convicted felon that goes by a variety of aliases, but real name is Michael Gasper with about 30 cases to his credit in Washington alone. I have to admit he is a very accomplished LD motorcycle rider with hundreds of thousands of miles under his belt, but wonder if somebody is pissed at him?

Someone post in the wrong thread??

 

[juniorfjr]

Local news reported the guy following him said "he and the bike just lit up". Apparently they proceeded to the next exit and called emergency from there. Had burns on his ears. Holy ****.

 

[puppychow]

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="Tyler" data-cid="1092705" data-time="1378503702"><p>

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="Ignacio" data-cid="1092636" data-time="1378487213"><p>Just figured out <a href='https://www.ironbuttrally.com/IBR/2003.cfm?DocID=5'>who they really are</a>. A convicted felon that goes by a variety of aliases, but real name is Michael Gasper with about <a href='https://dw.courts.wa.gov/index.cfm?fa=home.namesearch&terms=accept&flashform=0'>30 cases to his credit</a> in Washington alone. I have to admit he is a very accomplished LD motorcycle rider with hundreds of thousands of miles under his belt, but wonder if somebody is pissed at him? <img src='https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/wink.png' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_emoticon' /></p></blockquote>

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Someone post in the wrong thread?? <img src='https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/uhoh.gif' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_emoticon' /></p></blockquote>

Not really Iggy knows what and who he is talking about. This has been all over the LD lists. Guy is a tool, karma is finally getting to him perhaps.

 

[Tyler]

Not really Iggy knows what and who he is talking about. This has been all over the LD lists. Guy is a tool, karma is finally getting to him perhaps.

Okay... guess I've missed something in the translation...

 

[dcarver]

Looked it up, lot's o' bad joo-joo.

 

[SnowAviation]

Not really Iggy knows what and who he is talking about. This has been all over the LD lists. Guy is a tool, karma is finally getting to him perhaps.

Okay... guess I've missed something in the translation...

Maybe the bad guy they are talking about was the one hit by lightning.

Maybe a post was deleted

Maybe they are in the wrong thread

Maybe it's an April Fools joke

Maybe it's not a joke at all, but an elaborate prank to get us to post about a nonexistent person.

Hard to say

 

[Ignacio]

I had no clue my post was that cryptic.

Maybe the bad guy they are talking about was the one hit by lightning. Yes.

Maybe a post was deleted. No.

Maybe they are in the wrong thread. No.

Maybe it's an April Fools joke. No.

Maybe it's not a joke at all, but an elaborate prank to get us to post about a nonexistent person. No.

 

[dcarver]

The links you need are in post 7.

 

[Redfish Hunter]

Since I don't know the man myself and I am going on second hand information (from highly trusted sources!) this may really be mean but...

Sounds like it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!

Karma can be a bitch. You can just guess how I would know.

 

[Bounce]

Just figured out who they really are. A convicted felon that goes by a variety of aliases, but real name is Michael Gasper with about 30 cases to his credit in Washington alone. I have to admit he is a very accomplished LD motorcycle rider with hundreds of thousands of miles under his belt, but wonder if somebody is pissed at him?

Someone post in the wrong thread??

Nope. There's a TV station link floating around and sure enough the ******* that got struck is the same guy banned from the IBA for his criminal actions against other riders and their families. The photo of him they used was pulled straight from the national sex offenders web site but no mention of his record was made.

From Higdon's 2003 IBR report

"Just before the banquet began last evening, the Typhoid Mary of motorcycling, Michael Charles Gasper, rode into the Holiday Inn parking lot. You may know him by one of his aliases: Speedracer, Gary Gonefar, Biff, Bob Ransbottom (an identity theft of a 1995 IBR finisher), The 2K Kid, Psycho Mikey, Brad Beckley, Ray Poisson (a combination of "Rey" [spanish for "king"] and "Poisson" [French for "fish"], hence "Kingfish"), Chuck LaDeux, and most recently Charles Ladue. No matter what name he's using, this is one dude you don't want to meet.

Gasper's history of lies and sociopathic behavior is so well known in the long-distance motorcycling community that it would actually be comical were it not for the occasional felony conviction. In recent years, however, because of his multiple threats against other riders he has been turned away from every endurance rally of any consequence in North America and permanently banned from participation on the Long Distance Riders e-mail list. Unhappily, and ironically, for Psycho Mikey, riding a bike for endless miles under difficult conditions is one thing that he can actually do with some skill. Now the boys and girls won't play with him anymore.

The drums had banged out the news of Gasper's arrival before he was even off his bike. The police were called because at least three riders at the dinner have keep-away orders against him. He muttered a few epithets and rode off but, like the Energizer Bunny, he'll keep coming back. If he shows up at any of the rally's checkpoints, however, he'll find the state police waiting for him.

It took Mike Kneebone a few minutes to arrange for security guards to patrol the parking lot last night, an unexpected expense that the riders Gasper so desperately wants to associate with will ultimately bear through their entry fees. But soon the drama subsided, rallymaster Lisa Landry strode into the banquet room wearing the executioner's robe that Mike Kneebone had first used in 2001, and the riders quickly resumed their positions of whipped-dog submissiveness."

Many have been speculating why Zeus stopped at just melting him a bit.

 

[Tyler]

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="Tyler" data-cid="1092705" data-time="1378503702"><p><blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="Ignacio" data-cid="1092636" data-time="1378487213"><p>Just figured out <a href='https://www.ironbuttrally.com/IBR/2003.cfm?DocID=5'>who they really are</a>. A convicted felon that goes by a variety of aliases, but real name is Michael Gasper with about <a href='https://dw.courts.wa.gov/index.cfm?fa=home.namesearch&terms=accept&flashform=0'>30 cases to his credit</a> in Washington alone. I have to admit he is a very accomplished LD motorcycle rider with hundreds of thousands of miles under his belt, but wonder if somebody is pissed at him? <img src='https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/wink.png' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_emoticon' /></p></blockquote>

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Someone post in the wrong thread?? <img src='https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/uhoh.gif' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_emoticon' /></p></blockquote>

Not really Iggy knows what and who he is talking about. This has been all over the LD lists. Guy is a tool, karma is finally getting to him perhaps.

Got it now... thanks for the quotes, Bounce... I didn't wade through the links in Sam's post as it looked kinda fubar'd so didn't understand what I was looking at.

Perhaps Zeus was giving him a warning in the hope he'll repent and make some better choices.

 

[puppychow]

That is no excuse Tyler. The links were also in Iggy's post.

My post only made them fubared because of posting a quoted reply from my mobile phone. Don't blame me for not looking at the links in Iggy's post. Come up with a better excuse!

 

[Tyler]

That is no excuse Tyler. The links were also in Iggy's post.My post only made them fubared because of posting a quoted reply from my mobile phone. Don't blame me for not looking at the links in Iggy's post. Come up with a better excuse!

The blonde hair is affecting my intelligence??

 

[puppychow]

Gee I hope not! At least you are having more fun? If it is possible for you to have even more fun than what you already do..

 

[gixxerjasen]

Um...wow.

All the way around.

Oh, and don't waste your time watching the video in the OP's posted news story. Just four minutes of a bunch of yammering reporters talking about the weather and nothing about the incident.