Lightning my arse!

[keveh]

Best story of the day:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20 ... 62,00.html

A WOMAN has suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body.

Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at home when lightning struck the building.

She said: "I had just put my mouth under the tap to rinse away the toothpaste when the lightning must have struck the building.

I don't remember much after that, but I was later told that the lightning had travelled down the water pipe and struck me on the mouth, passing through my body.

It was incredibly painful, I felt it pass through my torso and then I don't remember much at all." Doctors at the city hospital where she was treated for burns to the mouth and rear said: "The accident is bizarre but not impossible.

She was wearing rubber bathroom shoes at the time and so instead of earthing through her feet it appears the electricity shot out of her backside," a medic told local television news channel, 24 Sata.

"It appears to have earthed through the damp shower curtain that she was touching as she bent over to put her mouth under the tap. If she had not been wearing the shoes she would probably have been killed by the blast."

[David Lee's Hair]

Good job she was just rinsing her teeth under there!

[Montreal Wanderer]

Reminds me of the limerick about the man from Madras.

[TANGODANCER]

You can much the same effect from any top-range curry or chilli.

[communistworkethic]

.... shocking.

[mofgimmers]

That's piss funny! Especially when you actually read it out loud in funny voices...

[Gertie]

This was a very timely story, as this morning there was a HUGE thunder and lightning storm above my house for hours and hours.

I spent the whole time hiding in my bed I was sooooooooooooooooo scared. I've always been scared of thunder but that story frightened the life out of me.

I'm a soft coward but I really really don't like it, and was too scared to go and look for my cats.

Is everyone else brave and tough??????

[keveh]

This was a very timely story, as this morning there was a HUGE thunder and lightning storm above my house for hours and hours.

You don't happen to live in Preston do you?

There was one that lasted for aaaages just waiting above our house for me to step outside.

It was pissing it down and I had a brolly up, shitting them incase a bolt hit me. Last time I went out with a brolly and it was lightening I got an electric shock from it

[David Lee's Hair]

It was bad in the Quays, unfortunately the shed and scaffolding I have the misfortune to look at for most of the day didn't get hit and burn down!! Gutted

[Henrik's fan club]

This was a very timely story, as this morning there was a HUGE thunder and lightning storm above my house for hours and hours.

I spent the whole time hiding in my bed I was sooooooooooooooooo scared. I've always been scared of thunder but that story frightened the life out of me.

I'm a soft coward but I really really don't like it, and was too scared to go and look for my cats.

Is everyone else brave and tough??????

I love standing outside in a lightning storm! Just watching the lightning

[Bruce Rioja]

I've just been informed that it's likely to get a little tasty on my way back over the tops this evening. Now then, where did I put that book and that piss bottle from yesterday?

[Gertie]

This was a very timely story, as this morning there was a HUGE thunder and lightning storm above my house for hours and hours.

I spent the whole time hiding in my bed I was sooooooooooooooooo scared. I've always been scared of thunder but that story frightened the life out of me.

I'm a soft coward but I really really don't like it, and was too scared to go and look for my cats.

Is everyone else brave and tough??????

I love standing outside in a lightning storm! Just watching the lightning

WHAT???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That can KILL you !!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you not read about the poor girl's bottom??????????????? You crazy boy!!!!!!!!!!! thunder and lightening is BAD NEWS!!!!!!!!!

[Bruce Rioja]

I love standing outside in a lightning storm! Just watching the lightning

I was staying down in Cardiff once when I experienced the most spectacular electrical storm that you could ever imagine. The rain was coming down as if from fire hoses, the rumbles of thunder were echoing as they rolled through the valleys and the cracks of lightening lit everything up as though someone was messing around with the floodlights at a football ground. I was leaning out of my hotel window watching all of this until a crack of lightening hit the hotel and blew all the lights. Shit missen, I did, and quickly shut the window and cowered inside.

[Montreal Wanderer]

We get spectacular lightning storms over here, usually in the summer when the heat and humidity build up. I used to watch them from our (wooden) gallery - outside but covered - with the kids. We stopped when one bolt hit a transformer on a power pole about fifteen yards away. There was such a collosal flash and bang, along with an immediate power failure, that we headed for the basement in a hurry.l

[TANGODANCER]

Thunderstorms were much more common when we were kids (when we actually had seasons). My mother used to open both the front and back doors then make us sit under the table every time onr occured. Believe it.

[Gravedigger]

Pussy cats! Lightning strikes upwards so if it hit you in the arse you'd be on a high for the next month. If you are caught in a storm, kneel down and crouch with your head right between your legs. Confuses the lightning flow apparently. And don't think you're safe because you ain't near a tree. You then become a pretty good lightning conductor.

[Raven]

My arse felt like lightening had passed through it this am, christ talk about a Ring of Fire!

[Nozza]

This was a very timely story, as this morning there was a HUGE thunder and lightning storm above my house for hours and hours.

You don't happen to live in Preston do you?

There was one that lasted for aaaages just waiting above our house for me to step outside.

It was pissing it down and I had a brolly up, shitting them incase a bolt hit me. Last time I went out with a brolly and it was lightening I got an electric shock from it

GAY!

[Henrik's fan club]

This was a very timely story, as this morning there was a HUGE thunder and lightning storm above my house for hours and hours.

I spent the whole time hiding in my bed I was sooooooooooooooooo scared. I've always been scared of thunder but that story frightened the life out of me.

I'm a soft coward but I really really don't like it, and was too scared to go and look for my cats.

Is everyone else brave and tough??????

I love standing outside in a lightning storm! Just watching the lightning

WHAT???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That can KILL you !!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you not read about the poor girl's bottom??????????????? You crazy boy!!!!!!!!!!! thunder and lightening is BAD NEWS!!!!!!!!!

It's never done me any harm. I'll wear rubber-soled trainers next time if it'll set your mind at ease?

[Tals-biggest-fan]

This was a very timely story, as this morning there was a HUGE thunder and lightning storm above my house for hours and hours.

I spent the whole time hiding in my bed I was sooooooooooooooooo scared. I've always been scared of thunder but that story frightened the life out of me.

I'm a soft coward but I really really don't like it, and was too scared to go and look for my cats.

Is everyone else brave and tough??????

Yeah me i was out playin footie!