I waited as long as I could.

This story has been all over the 'nets. I have seen Defamer and Gawker post about it, but never read the article.

Finally, I broke down out of curiousity, and I must say, I had to laugh. Something about the deadpan way it is written, is hilarious.

Imagine the random, series of events, that needed to take place, ir order for it to happen.

Lightning exits woman's bottom

'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 in her home in the Croatian city of Zadar 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 newspaper, 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."

24 Sata said the young woman had been released from hospital after being kept in overnight and was expected to make a full recovery.'

Also, came across this while searching for an image:

Footballers struck by lightning

'Players from both teams dropped to the ground

One minute the 22 players were running around the pitch - the next half of them were on their backs on the turf.

The referee at the Premier Soccer League match in Johannesburg seemed badly shocked and blew his whistle incessantly.

Several players writhed on the grass holding their ears and their eyes. Spectators and coaching staff ran onto the pitch to help

Jeremy Vine in South Africa: "The referee groped around, blowing his whistle"
One commentator interviewed a player lying on the ground, asking him: "It didn't hit you did it?"

The footballer responded: "It did just a little. I don't know if I'm OK."

Fortunately no-one was killed by the strike.'

and the best part:

'Members of the team that were two goals down were accused of deliberately collapsing to get the match called off. '