German kid hit by meteorite

[~[FGS]SaSQuATcH~]

First of all I'd like to point out my opinion about the incident; ROFL

Gerrit Blank, 14, was on his way to school when he saw "ball of light" heading straight towards him from the sky.
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.
"Then a split second after that there was an enormous bang like a crash of thunder."
"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.
Scientists are now studying the pea-sized meteorite which crashed to Earth in Essen, Germany.
"I am really keen on science and my teachers discovered that the fragment is really magnetic," said Gerrit.
Chemical tests on the rock have proved it had fallen from space.
Ansgar Kortem, director of Germany's Walter Hohmann Observatory, said: "It's a real meteorite, therefore it is very valuable to collectors and scientists.
"Most don't actually make it to ground level because they evaporate in the atmosphere. Of those that do get through, about six out of every seven of them land in water," he added.
The only other known example of a human being surviving a meteor strike happened in Alabama, USA, in November 1954 when a grapefruit-sized fragment crashed through the roof of a house, bounced off furniture and landed on a sleeping woman.

If I was hit by a meteorite I'd start bitching for keeping the stuff as it hit ME ffs. Why do they think they can do whatever they want with it etc.

[Skilgannon]

Already heard about it. Yahoo news ftw.

[Kothar]

I would make those scientists pay me for the damn thing. I would charge them a billion dollars for the thing otherwise I would keep it in my room until someone is willing to pay me.

[SPAZ ROFELZ]

Shoulda aimed head...

[chin.democ.]

Six out of Seven land in the sea? only two thirds of the earth is water so that's strange, If It was me who got hit I'd sue God.

[~[FGS]SaSQuATcH~]

I would at least demand keeping the meteorite so I could sell it to some collector.

[SPAZ ROFELZ]

I'd go kick Chuck Norris in the nutts because NOT EVEN METEORITES CAN KILL ME.