Lightening bolt kills man coming from church in Jamaica

A senior citizen who was making a podium at his church for the start of a church crusade was struck to death by a bolt of lightning, in Fairy Hill Portland in Jamaica on Thursday morning.

He has been identified as 67-year-old carpenter, Errol Forbes.

He was reportedly struck by lightning as he made his way into his house.

According to a police report, around 10:30 am, Forbes, who is an Elder at the Zion Hill Seventh Day Adventist Church, was making a podium to be used in a church crusade starting Friday evening.

The police say that during a heavy downpour accompanied by lightning, the elderly man decided to make his way out of the rain, when the incident took place.

Forbes was was pronounced dead at hospital.

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35 Comments

  1. Proud Dominican
    August 23, 2011

    TRUTH AND JUSTICE I SUPPORT U 100 PERCENT. IT’S HIGH TIME WE START RESPECTING PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD MAN. LIFE IS TOO SHORT. BE KIND AND CONSIDERATE.

  2. Mohamed George Bush
    August 22, 2011

    God strike them with lightning. there is more to come and in Dominica! so be careful pastors…

  3. Anonymous
    August 22, 2011

    ouchhh

  4. Yellow
    August 21, 2011

    Ehh, Maybe he should’nt have went to church that day… I’m just saying… >.>

  5. magwe ca!
    August 19, 2011

    just a coincidence but knowing people they’ll always try to involve god and satan in the situation!

  6. Humanist
    August 19, 2011

    Somewhat ironic, no? The would-be crusader is the one who gets struck by a bolt from above. Another irony: certain religious people will brush such events aside as coincidences, but, had someone of a different faith, an unbeliever, a gay person, etc. been hit by lightning, those same persons would in all likelihood be the first to point their fingers and say, look, God has spoken. The most extraordinary of such persons will even tell you the scientific ideas behind how lightning works, choosing to ignore this science when it suits their cause. What difference, really, is there between believing that the Christian god sent the lightning and not, say, Zeus (whose signature way of dealing with those he did not like, after all, was lightning strikes)? In other words: lightning, like many natural disasters, has been interpreted as something sent by an angry or happy god since ancient times; why still subscribe literally to these notions, when we understand so much more now than the ancients did?

    Moreover, where does one draw the line when claiming that a natural disaster is sent by a god? Such people will invoke natural disasters as divine punishment when they wish and as natural disasters when nothing of interest to them is at stake. And those persons who do not know the science behind such phenomena will rarely, if ever, take the time to read about them, even on an informal (though generally good) website like Wikipedia. For that reason, I have linked the appropriate page:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning

    Be sure to also check out the “in culture” section at the bottom about the many (sometimes rather fascinating) ways lightning has been used in religions.

  7. 1979
    August 19, 2011

    some dominican ministers the lightning had to strike we…..stupes i vexxx

    • Anonymous
      August 19, 2011

      You all are so negative!

      • 1979
        August 19, 2011

        when they on :lol: podium calling god name with their mouth and in their hearts they know they lying to people, dont u think they deserve a lightning bolt in their u know what??? of course you dont….. beres hammond warn allu about those SWEET LIES… :mrgreen:

    • Anonymous
      August 19, 2011

      Negative comments alone that coming out from ur mouth…. ur mouth ma.b stinkin!

    • TeteMorne I from...
      August 19, 2011

      Kind of heartless if you ask me.

  8. dominican abroad
    August 19, 2011

    God works in mystriues ways .

  9. August 19, 2011

    I WONDER IF THAT HAD HAPPENED TO A GAY OR A MUSLIM WHAT WOULD YOU ALL HAVE SAID?
    HHMM :?:

    • Empress D-vine
      August 19, 2011

      revenge!!!

  10. under the radar
    August 19, 2011

    This is very sad… and odd. very rare occurrence.

    • Leah
      August 19, 2011

      Odd maybe for the Caribbean, but lightning strikes kills dozens in the US every year.

  11. Justice and Truth
    August 19, 2011

    May his soul rest in peace. Amen!
    I reside in a part of the world that in summer some adults, even a child was killed by lightning, even though one of them sought shelter in a barn. Some occurred on the golf course.
    We are told do not stay or walk outside (if we have time to avoid the lightning and thunder); do not stand under a tree (some people have been electrocuted by lightning) but stay inside wherever we may be and immediately seek shelter if there is thunder and lightning.
    Thunder and lightning scares me, knowing how dangerous they are. Note that electricity could go out; if your TV and computer are on when that thunder strikes as if voraciously followed by the lightning as if it is angry which occurred in my household and that of others a few weeks ago in the early morning, it turns off your systems to the point they could crash.
    The government must issue directives to people accordingly. There are also those who do not pay heed to those important warnings which could save their life. They probably feel that it will never happen to them and they will have time to seek shelter. We cannot afford to take chances with thunder and lightning. These two do scare me and should scare others for obvious reasons.

    • Empress D-vine
      August 19, 2011

      girl ur thing too long..wa u think ner essay man

      • Empress D-vine
        August 19, 2011

        but interesting points

      • ok
        August 19, 2011

        LOL. LOL. LOL. I caah understand that. toneh!! i think DNO should set limits on the number of characters cause some of those people just long winded man. ha ha.

      • Justice and Truth
        August 21, 2011

        @ Empress D-vine

        You call yourself an empress d-vine. What empress d-vine? :twisted: :mrgreen: Who are you and where did you come from? From the sea as a mermaid with no human intelligence? Have respect for others and their right to comment. You are dominating as a dictator, rude, unfair and out-of-place. :twisted: :mrgreen: :twisted: :mrgreen: You are one who gives Dominicans a bad reputation.
        I am making up for those as you who are crude and rude and have no respect for others and who have nothing interesting and educating to write about. Some of your comments should never be posted. Learn love and respect from others. Allow others their freedom of right, speech and comment. Are you a communist and a dictator?
        :mrgreen: :twisted: You must be one miserable person. I certainly would not like to meet you for you have depicted that you are not an amicable person. :twisted: :mrgreen: You want the freedom to post whatever you like, be it disrespectful, crude and rude? Allow others that freedom. O.K.!

      • bittersweet
        September 15, 2011

        LMAO….

    • Leah
      August 19, 2011

      I agree with you. Lightning strikes are pure heated thousands of volts of electricity-and very dangerous. My television was destroyed a few weeks ago, and although I turned it off from the DOMLEC outlet, it came through the MARPIN line, and the effect was the same!Latley we have had some pretty impressive lightning shows here in DA, we must protect our lives and property at all cost. Be careful as the season goes on.

      • August 20, 2011

        THATS MARPIN’S NEW WAY OF CUTTING OFF PEOPLE THAT DOE PAY THEIR BILLS

      • Justice and Truth
        August 22, 2011

        @ Leah

        Thank you for your respectable and understandable response. I am sorry to hear what occurred to your TV set. Those bolts of thunder and lightning volts are dangerous and destructive.
        It is obvious that those critics who want their comments posted no matter how crude and rude they are will not allow sensible people their right to comment. They possess no basic common sense. They prefer reading senseless writings than sensible ones. I do not view these people as ones. They also lack patience to live in peace and harmony with others.
        A friend who resides in the U.S. told me recently that during a terrible lightning and thunder storm, his TV crashed; also his microwave. That was some storm. Storms with terrible lightning and thunder have increased in recent years.
        It is not always possible to quickly turn them off completely for thunder and lightning can strike without warning.
        One evening I was on the computer. I heard the thunder, I quickly turned off the computer.
        Having heard through the Media especially TV what has occurred to some people during those storms I do my utmost to be ever so careful. Precaution is better than cure.
        I am a Catholic Christian and I am now in the habit of blessing my home with Holy Water when I also hear thunder and see the lightning. I ask for God’s protection.

    • August 20, 2011

      @Justice and Truth

      I like your response, but anyway you live where I now live and we have the same information about living situtions in this world. Let us give thanks to God.

      I am very much afraid of lightening and thunder also–even before I learned of the danger of lighting volt. Thanks to God, I have always been inside during those times of lightning and thunder. I simply close all my windows during the lightning flashes.

      All of those people, who are saying this and that about God, are missing the point already.

      What is all that about “natural disaster and science” people are always trying to defile the authority of God Almighty just because they do not understand it.

      A man was struck and killed by lightning–so what! It is a tragidy for the man and his loved ones, but how is it a natural disaster for science to explain.

      This has happened to many people all over the world–most of the time probably because of the ignorance of the dangers of lightning voltage–the human body conducts electricity.

      I have also heard of a man being healed from total blindness after he was stroke by lightening voltage. We all have been given a perioid of time–minute or hour for certain things throughout our existence in this world.

      What about a person who is under the influence of alcohol. If that person goes under water, he/she will not come back alive. But only people who do not know of the danger suffers the fate. And that is what it is–FATE!

      It was that man’s destiny to die the way he did–who can change that? David said about God: “Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed, and in your book they were all written; the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.”

      So that man could have known all the precautions, pertaining to the danger of lightening, but that is how his days would come to end in this world–who could have changed it–nothing and no one!

      I wish that we would stop all the nonsense things that we talk so often.

      • Justice and Truth
        August 22, 2011

        @ Lizavier4Jesus

        Excellent response. Thank you! We all must have heard that, we never know when lightning will strike and there are times, “lightning strikes twice.” Thunder and lightning are scary.
        Today during a conversation I told someone about a steeple of a church which was struck by lightning. The entire steeple was destroyed. We pray that God will protect us from such.

  12. August 19, 2011

    Sad way to die

    • Justice and Truth
      August 22, 2011

      Indeed!

  13. ......
    August 19, 2011

    works of our heavenly father!! He is alive!!!!

  14. Anonymous
    August 19, 2011

    :( Sad…. hoping 2 hear bout it in service 2mrw….

  15. Me
    August 19, 2011

    Well…ironic!

    You gotta wonder if it was more than a coincidence now don’t you?

  16. me
    August 19, 2011

    Rest in peace brother Forbes. Thed S.D.A communnity here mourns ur loss.

  17. Anonymous
    August 19, 2011

    GEEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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