Insurance from the skies!

What are the odds of getting hit by a meteorite?

I'm not even sure how you'd calculate those odds accurately (it would involve the number of meteorites known to hit the Earth, and the area of a single human compared to the surface area of the planet). But they're really low; only one person I know of in modern times has been hit — in 1954 a woman in Sylacauga, Alabama was smacked in her side by an 8-pounder, and in 1992 a woman's car was hit. In 2003 a flurry of meteorites rained down near Chicago, and amazingly no one was hit.

So it's not like I worry too much about it. But then you might see something like this…

It looks like one hit a bus stop in Düsseldorf, Germany!

But wait a sec. It looks like little too good to be true, doesn't it? And how come you never heard about it?

Well, take a look at the advertising sign on the side of the bus stop:

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