5 Horrifying Ways Lightning Strikes Are Worse Than You Think — cracked.com

We tend to use "getting struck by lightning" as our standard for unlikely shit happening to you. As in, "You're more likely to get struck by lightning than die in a terrorist attack" (which is true). But of course, that phrase ignores the fact that lots of people do in fact get struck by lightning. We spoke to Bruce Weiner, who survived multiple attacks from Zeus 29 years ago, and he told us ... You don't need extraordinary bad luck to get hit by lightning, or even to get hit by lightning multiple times, as Bruce Weiner did. There's an old adage that lightning never strikes the same place twice, and it's total bullshit. The Eiffel Tower and most skyscrapers get hit just about every time there's a thunderstorm, and farmers lose tons of livestock to lightning each year, which is why they have dubbed these strikes "the wolves of the sky" (or at least they should -- that would be badass).

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