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Typical alien harassment includes your bed being surrounded by little green men in the middle of the night, or your car being surrounded by Mexicans offering to install your new garden hose for a reasonable fee as you’re pulling out of the Home Depot.
For some though, alien harassment includes slight destruction of property. For the record – when we said ‘for some’ at the beginning of that last sentence, we meant ‘for one.’ And that’s because some guy thinks that an alien marksman in orbit has singled out his house, and hit it with six verified meteorites in the past three years.
One would think that if aliens were interested in us, it would be in a scientific sort of way. If they were? interested in anything but our forms of government, our feeble attempts at science or why corn shows up in our poop unaltered, we’d be surprised.
But according to a Bosnian named Radivoje Lajic, these aliens are interested in much more than corn-filled poo. They also like to watch him step outside in a rain storm and wave his fist at the sky while yelling horrible things he intends to do to the mother of whoever threw that last space rock.
In case we haven’t mentioned it already – his house has been hit with six meteorites in the last three years. As the Metro puts it:
“Radivoje Lajic first came to international attention in 2008, shortly after the fifth meteorite had crashed into the roof of his house in the northern village of Gornji Lajici. And now, within the past month, another rock has hit the roof of his house, in defiance of all the odds – making it six strikes since the plague of meteorites began in 2007.
“Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the falling rocks he has handed over were meteorites. They are now trying to work out what exactly it is about his house that particularly attracts them. The strikes always happen when it is raining heavily, he says, never when there are clear skies.”
And now we’ll list every reason we can think of why this one house would consistently be hit by meteorites.
1: It takes up all of Bosnia. The house is absolutely massive and the roof literally stretches from border to border.
2: Lajic’s wife sucks not only the souls of men, but also the souls of passing cosmic bodies.
3. God hates him with a rarely shown godly passion.
Clearly all of the above reasons are both plausible and likely – but Lajic casts them aside for a theory of his own. This from the Sun:
Lajic, 50, who has had a steel girder reinforced roof put on the house to protect himself from further strikes, is convinced he is being persecuted.
He said: “I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don’t know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense.
“The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit six times has to be deliberate. If you rule out the possible, then the impossible must be true.”
Well let’s just hope the ETs are content to harass from a distance. If not, Lajic could find himself on the receiving end of a little gray panty raid.
Not cool aliens. Not cool indeed.
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