# Lightning: Burns going down, but wait 'til it comes out. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightning-burns-going-down-but-wait-til-it-comes-out/375891 "2006-10-10T03:08:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightning-burns-going-down-but-wait-til-it-comes-out/375891/1 "2006-10-10T03:08:39Z")
Remember that line from Braveheart? “And if _he_ were here, he’d consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse.” A woman in Australia has performed a surprising and unexpected [reenactment](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20548077-13762,00.html) of this. > [@](#): > > 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. Is it horrible of me to think that the jokes are presently writing themselves? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightning-burns-going-down-but-wait-til-it-comes-out/375891/2 "2006-10-10T11:58:32Z")
My ass felt like that after I ate Thai food. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightning-burns-going-down-but-wait-til-it-comes-out/375891/3 "2006-10-10T12:07:54Z")
You’re late by a bit over an hour: > **[Blowing It Out Your Ass, ... Literally!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=391527)** > > Source: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20548077-13762,00.html I have no words to express about this. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightning-burns-going-down-but-wait-til-it-comes-out/375891/4 "2006-10-10T12:53:21Z")
Well, yeah … but … mine has a Braveheart quote. Mel Gibson, man! I mean, y’know, before all the anti-semitism. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightning-burns-going-down-but-wait-til-it-comes-out/375891/5 "2006-10-10T14:46:09Z")
Hey, each thread links the other as prior thread! Is this the SDMB incarnation of “how do you keep a moron occupied” or something? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightning-burns-going-down-but-wait-til-it-comes-out/375891/6 "2006-10-10T14:48:22Z")
No, it’s the SDMB version of, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg”? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightning-burns-going-down-but-wait-til-it-comes-out/375891/7 "2006-10-10T15:00:04Z")
Some of my uncles would like to have white lightning on tap… ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightning-burns-going-down-but-wait-til-it-comes-out/375891/8 "2006-10-10T15:12:29Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] Some of my uncles would like to have white lightning on tap… [/QUOTE] Isn’t that where that stuff comes from in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightning-burns-going-down-but-wait-til-it-comes-out/375891/9 "2006-10-10T15:56:14Z")
_Somewhere deep in the bowels of Merck, and evil scientist wonders if a joint venture with a power utility could develop a technology to reproduce this effect through a device in a physician’s office. He wonders how much they could over-charge the HMOs for this new ‘treatment’ for colon cancer…_ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightning-burns-going-down-but-wait-til-it-comes-out/375891/10 "2006-10-10T16:01:18Z")
Now if it had happened to a man named Cass… There once was a man named Cass Whose balls were made of brass When they tinkled together They played “Stormy Weather” And lightning shot out of his ass.