Dramatic video shows Florida mom's close escape as lightning strikes right behind her 66%

By Chris Bradford73%

7/17/2026, 5:56:11 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 60.6% saturation with 83 hits. Analysis detected 383 faulty-reasoning hits from 137 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 60.1% and a BS Rank of 66% (7,453 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 66.00% of the article peer group.

Dramatic video shows Florida mom's close escape as lightning strikes right behind her 
Dramatic doorbell video shows a Florida mom running for cover as a lightning bolt hit a neighbor’s yard right behind, instantly sparking a fire. 
Jessika Gonzalez was seen in her Ring doorbell footage unloading her car when several bright flashes lit up the sky on June 27. 
As she slams her door and runs into her house, a fire quickly spreads in the grass behind her. 
“I felt like a firecracker was lit next to me and the sparks were hitting me,” Gonzalez told Storyful. 
“I ran into the garage, shocked, and all the kids were screaming.” 
Gonzalez was not injured and there was no immediate news of any bad damage. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 27.7%Chris Bradford: 4.1%California Post: 4.1%Confirmation Bias27.7%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 2.0%California Post: 1.4%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 3.5%California Post: 4.2%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 1.0%California Post: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 1.5%California Post: 0.8%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 3.5%California Post: 2.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 50.4%Chris Bradford: 10.7%California Post: 10.3%Framing Effect50.4%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.4%California Post: 0.9%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.4%California Post: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.0%California Post: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 10.2%Chris Bradford: 1.7%California Post: 2.5%Optimism Bias10.2%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 1.7%California Post: 1.5%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 45.3%Chris Bradford: 16.2%California Post: 16.0%Negativity Bias45.3%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 2.2%California Post: 2.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.9%California Post: 1.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.5%California Post: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 1.3%California Post: 1.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 1.7%California Post: 1.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 1.3%California Post: 3.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.3%California Post: 0.6%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.0%California Post: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 1.0%California Post: 1.6%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.8%California Post: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.0%California Post: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 3.3%California Post: 2.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.0%California Post: 0.5%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 4.4%California Post: 4.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.6%California Post: 1.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.4%California Post: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.1%California Post: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 4.9%California Post: 5.5%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.1%California Post: 0.7%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.3%California Post: 1.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 22.6%Chris Bradford: 11.5%California Post: 8.9%Appeal to Emotion22.6%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.8%California Post: 1.1%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 31.4%Chris Bradford: 3.3%California Post: 2.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)31.4%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.0%California Post: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.9%California Post: 0.8%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.0%California Post: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.3%California Post: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 3.8%California Post: 3.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.0%California Post: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 1.6%California Post: 2.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.0%California Post: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.1%California Post: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.2%California Post: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.0%California Post: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.1%California Post: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 13.9%Chris Bradford: 4.8%California Post: 3.2%Unattributed Quote13.9%This article: 17.5%Chris Bradford: 3.4%California Post: 2.1%Quote-first Misdirection17.5%This article: 60.6%Chris Bradford: 11.6%California Post: 13.1%Biased Writer Voice60.6%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 1.3%California Post: 1.4%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.5%California Post: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 3.5%California Post: 3.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Bradford: 0.8%California Post: 6.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

137 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker39%attributed speech83writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 100.0% coverageJessika Gonzalez • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 100.0% coverageJessika Gonzalez • 19 words • 100.0% coverageJessika Gonzalez • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Jessika Gonzalez

57%flagged-word coverage
54 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-100.0 ptsWriter: 100.0%Jessika Gonzalez: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote+35.2 ptsWriter: 0.0%Jessika Gonzalez: 35.2%35.2%Quote-first Misdirection-28.9 ptsWriter: 28.9%Jessika Gonzalez: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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