Hours after Casey Anthony learned on Thursday that she will leave jail next week, lightning apparently struck a tree next to a makeshift memorial in honor of her slain daughter, Â Caylee.
No one saw lightning strike the pine tree on Suburban Drive in Orange County, Florida, where teddy bears and flowers mark the spot where 2-year-old Caylee's remains were found on December 11, 2008.
But long, diagonal strips of exposed wood scarred the tall pine tree, WESH reported, and bits of bark lay scattered across the road.
"It could be a sign from the angels that they aren't happy with what's happened," a visitor to the site told the Orlando Sentinel newspaper. "The rain, the lightning, the storm - it's the heavens indicating they aren't happy."
There are more lightning strikes in Florida per square mile than in any other state, according to weather.com.
A Pinellas County jury acquitted Anthony, 24, of murder and manslaughter charges Tuesday in the death of her daughter. The same jury convicted her of four charges of obstruction of justice for lying to police during the search for Caylee.
Judge Belvin Perry sentenced Anthony to four years in jail -Â one year for each of her four convictions - but with credit for nearly three years already served and good behavior, her release date was set for Wednesday, July 13, a court spokeswoman said.
Magical thinking.
What is wrong with you people? This isnt news.
You didn't have to click on it either... Im sure there are hundreds of other articles on here for you to read...but you just had to click on this one and post something negative so you can feel so superior and above it all...
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read. Is this for real?! Holy crap, a rip in spacetime opened up & some fundamentalist whack job from The Salem Witch Hunt quantum leaped into one of CNN's reporters. We're all screwed if this is the caliber of thinking in America.
let's just ignore the physics AND statistics behind this and call it "god isn't happy"
Would you people PLEASE capitalize God?....!!!!!
Why on Earth would we do that?
Yeah, why?
Zeus is the god of lightning, but I don't think he is the 'p.o. all the time god' that you are referring to.
You need to capitalize GOD because it's the proper way to write it.
Why? Is god a proper name? Don't the gods have proper names like Yaweh, Allah, Zeus, Ra, Mercury, Thoth, etc...
.....and this is headline news because.....?
Uh , guys , it was only a lightening strike , it could have happened anywhere .
So what? Probably struck a couple hundred other places today. Ah, but the media creeps have to milk every drop, like maggots on a trash pile. What next - maybe her lunch at the jail or if she brushed her teeth today? Give this crap a rest.
rat face was found not guilty huh? give her some cheese and she will admit everything she did to her daughter..
Come to Canada Casey we don't treat our aquitted people in this country like that!
Ya know what, take her ass you idiot. Just because she was aquitted does NOT mean that she is innocent. I guess you think OJ didn't kill his wife either?
Angel -Awiz ehwaz-uh: awiz, hwesja wulno ne ist, spehet ehwanz, ainan krun wagan wegantun, ainan-uh mekon boran, ainan-uh gumonun ahu berontun. Awiz nu ehwamaz weuhet: hert agnutai meke witantei, ehwans akantun weran. Ehwaz weuhant: hludi, awi! kert aknutai uns wituntmaz: mannaz, foþiz, wulnon awjan hwurneuti sebi warman wistran. Awjan-uh wulno ne isti. þat hehluwaz awiz akran bukeþ.
please don't disgrace canadas name like that, and please don't be so foolish
You are sick!
Nancy Grace farted ... her anal wind is what caused damage to the tree. Perhaps the State Of Florida should prosecute her for aggravated negligent flatulation on live vegetation ? Under FL law, I believe that's a class F felony ?
lmao
Now if lightning strikes Casey... then I'll believe.
Did anyone see where my lightening bolt landed? How 'bout a spot guys? Mulligan? Forget it, headed to the clubhouse.
Yeah, you missed Nancy Grace by a mile. I told you to wear your glasses at night.
Where was CNN when I saw lightning the other day? Sloppy.