Lightning exits woman's bottom

news.com.au ^ | 10-09-2006

[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."

[Larry Lucido]

Of all the safety briefings I received in the Army when going on bivouac, this was never one of the situations cautioned about.

[Larry Lucido]

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

Note to self: Forget everything you ever learned about wearing rubber shoes as insulation.

[NathanR]

What????

[commish]

"Natasha" could've been "Nathan" and it might've come out "elsewhere".

OK lets all admit it -- We all grabbed and went OOOOOOOOWWWWW when we read this.

[A.Hun]

[proudofthesouth]

Must.....resist.....urge.....to......laugh.

[Maximus of Texas]

Teeny & Legs, have you had these kind of farts?

[Gamecock]

LOL!

I was the OIC of a medical unit supporting a reserve exercise at Fort Bragg back in 86 (was it that long ago?!?)

I made a PX run and when I was driving back we hit a big NC thunderstorm. It passed by the time we got back to the site, but the first thing I noticed was that the guards were not at their post. When I got back to the CP I found out that:

-A lightning bolt hit the barbed wire "gate" across the dirt road from the guards and they watched the fireball spiral down the wire. When it hit the sandbags, the sand bags exploded and sandblasted their faces.
-A female soldier got her buttocks fried while sitting on a folding metal chair in her tent that didn't have drainage trench. The tent flooded, lightning struck and went right up the chair. I guess that was the same as the above story, except in reverse.

[Toby06]

[tioga]

-go ahead, you take this call. ;^)

[Redcloak]

By connecting through the air, the total resistance in the circuit was higher. The voltage stays the same, but the current flow decreases. It's good ol' Ohm's law, though I doubt that Georg pictured a flaming ass when he wrote it.

[Rummyfan]

OK, so who has the burned anus pinglist?

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

[Grut]

My wife wants to know why I'm making funny faces at the computer and gurgling!

[Larry Lucido]

Apparently, there are artificial sphincter replacements. If anyone is dying to know how they are installed they can go here: http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijs/vol3n2/abs.xml

[teenyelliott]

No, but did you get my plantie message?

[teenyelliott]

nevamind : )

[Maximus of Texas]

Dork.

[teenyelliott]

I know you are but what am I?

[bmwcyle]

[patton]

holy flaming...