Man struck by lightning, happens to be using an iPod. Film at 11.

Seriously though, way to editorialize (them, not you, arse.)

Ouch all the same. :/

Y'know what else is not a good idea with thunderstorms? EVERYTHING.

That's pretty much why whenever it rains I put away the iPod and just play my favorite songs on the trombone. You're not going to find any stories about a guy playing a trombone getting by lightning.

Oddly enough there was an article in the local fishwrapper yesterday about a local restaurant owner who was struck by lightning. Apparently he refused to be taken to the hospital by the ambulance and only later went in after his friends cajoled him into it.

Dude: you were struck by f'ing lightning. Go to the hospital.

I was doing family research in some old bibles from the town of New Bern, NC (I'm circuitously related to one of the town's founders, Christophe de Graffenreid), and in the same bible that told me of a blacksmith ancestor of mine rendered insensible by a thrown horseshoe, I learned of another ancestor made similarly feeble by a lightning strike. The blacksmith's brother moved in and took care of the grieving family, eventually marrying the widow after his own wife died. No note was made of the lightning-struck's disposition, so I've always wondered whether folks back then saw it as retribution, or divine justice, for whatever they envied or despised about him, and let him die a pauper. God's will as served by wrathful men, you know?

You're not going to find any stories about a guy playing a trombone getting by lightning.

More proof that there is no God.

Maybe he just hates the type of music they're listening to.

I bet he just got sick of that incessant "inch, inch, inch" sound leaking out around the earphones and did what we all want to do - smote the stupid prick.

I think dg has it.

Maybe I'm just crazy, but it seems to me the lesson we should be drawing from this incident is don't go jogging in thunderstorms.