[afraidfortherepublic]

This storoy begs the question: did she subsequently remove the metal paraphrenalia -- or not??? If not, I hold no sympathy for this bimbo.

[jlogajan]

This storoy begs the question: did she subsequently remove the metal paraphrenalia -- or not??? If not, I hold no sympathy for this bimbo.

Lightning that has just jumped 2000 feet through the air is not going to care whether your body has a little metal or not in it. She would have been hit even if she had no metal within 100 yards of her body.

[gitmo]

The metal had nothing to do with the girl getting struck by lightning. She was simply a convenient conductor of electricity to the ground. Although I have known of metal objects being melted when a person is struck.

However, it will be interesting if the story gets out that piercings attract lightning.