When the lights go out

When I come upon a street light it will extinguish and as I walk away it will come back on, so says a group known as 'SLIders'.  There are many people in the world who are SLIders,  true believers in their paranormal ability to turn off street lights.  
‘H' of Seattle in the USA wrote in with his experiences of SLI.
"When I encounter a lamp subject to my SLI, the lamp will extinguish every time I pass by it, without fail. This is, of course, subject to the lamp's being on in the first place. I have never experienced passing by a lamp, turning it off, then immediately turning around, passing it and subsequently turning it on. Occasionally I have turned them on, but this is probably no more than 5% of the total incidents. Each lamp has always (no exceptions) either gone on or off but never both. This occasionally occurs when a lamp happens to be on during daylight hours. I should state that when I encounter a lamp subject to my SLI, the phenomenon invariably occurs at each encounter "
I have to believe that many people exaggerate the truth to fit themselves. I too have experienced street lights turning off when I approach and coming back on. Sometimes I have to pull over and watch when it does. And when that happens I get into the bucket of the aerial lift and change the bulb that has come to the end of its useful life that signals me of its pending doom by blinking off and coming back on. Then I guarantee that no SLIder will be able to turn it off when they walk by it.