The odds of getting stuck by lightning are pretty remote. These unlucky people all did get struck by lightning though and not all of them survived...
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-- never strikes the same place twice... or does it? Being struck by lightning most surely be a death sentence... or is it? From an entire soccer team struck down by one lightning bolt, to a man struck by lightning seven different times, here's Amazing Lightning Strike Stories.
The entire soccer team who was killed after being struck by a lighting during a match
Democratic Republic of Congo, 1998. A soccer game was underway between the the home team from Basanga, and their opponets from Kasai. The game was fair, and the two teams were evenly matched. The total score ended with 1-1, a draw.
Jens Gottlieb and Lisa Gruhn
36 year-old Jens Gottlieb and his 28-year-old girlfriend Lisa Gruhn certainely felt some sparks when they decided to have a steamy session of outdoor sex... in a thunderstorm. I'm sure they though it would be like something out of the Notebook, but no.... no it wasn't.
The girl who was zapped by lightning twice while in the shower
Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011. 12-year-old Alice Svensson had just finished dinner, and her mom sent her to the basement to take a shower. Her mother then went about cleaning the table and dishes when she heard a scream coming from the basement.
The 13-year-old kid who was struck by lightning at 13:13 on a Friday the 13th
Do you believe in luck? In good luck charms, and the curses of badluck if you step underneath a ladder or break a mirror or whatever? Well, then you'll know how unlucky the number 13 is... and why this next story is so incredibly full of bad luck.
Britney Wehrle
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, 2011 - 11-year-old Britney Wehrle was walking home from school, walking along a beautiful grassy field, not a cloud in sight. Nothing but pretty blue skies and an nice warm breeze. Out of nowhere, Britney felt her arm get hit with something like the wraith of god, and then she heard the thunder several seconds later.
Sophie Frost
Christmas can be a time of great excess when it comes to consumerism.... and that means a lot of parents or grandparents are going to go out into the freezing cold to buy the child or grandchild a smart device. It happens every year, as smart devices are given to children who seem responsible enough for one.
Natasha Timarovic
Natasha Timarovic is a Croatian woman living in the UK. Ten years ago, Ms. Timarovic got a nasty surprise, which lept out of her butt.
Ante Djindjic
It seems that Croatians living in England can't catch a break, as was the case for Ante Djindjic. Ante is a 29-year-old biker from Zagreb who, during one of his rides, decided to heed nature's call at the side of the road.
Multiple divers
Considering that water is such an excellent conductor for electricity, you'd expect there to be way more stories about how people swimming in the ocean or a lake get zapped by some stray bolt of lightning that had been attracted to the water. However, this isn't the case.
Austin Melton
Austin Melton was 14 years old when he got struck by lightning. It happened after a basketball game at his middle school. A thunderstorm rolled in and all the other kids ran outside to see it.
Roy Sullivan
Roy Clevelan Sullivan was born in 1912, growing up to become a park ranger at the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. That might sound like a realitively normal and mundane life, until you realize that Roy Sullivan is in the Guinness World Records book for surviving being struck by lightning seven different times over the course of his career.
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