Posted on 10/10/2006 12:45:17 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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."
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ok.. I do the same thing.. i need to get some paper cups in my bathroom...
I think my day's going pretty damn good, compared to Natasha.
You There?
She must be a real fire crack er
An old boss used to say "There's always a worse situation". Not so sure if that's true for Natasha.
Sure there is.
"Natasha" could've been "Nathan" and it might've come out "elsewhere".
[don't thank me...I'm just here to lend perspective]...:)
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.
We've got a new position for trolls to assume just before we zot them!
One point Twenty One Jigawatts out the back door?
She's lucky it didn't cauterize it and seal up the mineshaft.
Dude on my ship had a problem like that for a while. Some good drugs from sickbay took care of him though.
He would scream every time he had to pee.
*Ouch*
Uh, oh. What did I do now?? LOL
I suppose toothbrushes will now come with warning labels about using them during lightning storms.
Then zot them so hard that lightning shoots out their anus.
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