Except when it does!
Of, reality, from your pen still flows the greatest hilarity.
Because...
Okay, according to the article, that zip line was nearly 5 football fields worth, and about 15 stories up in the air, so lightning heading for it in a thunderstorm isn't exactly unlikely, is it. But the sheer symbolism! Where this guy worked, for whom, and then this ....David Ferguson rawstory.com wrote:Creationism museum employee injured by lightning strike while on the job
An employee of Petersburg, Kentucky’s Creation Museum was struck by lightning Wednesday while clearing guests from a zip line attraction at the museum during a thunderstorm.



Now, before you read on, don't get upset. He's basically fine:
So, he'll have a heck of a story to tell any priests visiting his bedside. And it wasn't just regular old lightning, no!David Ferguson rawstory.com wrote:He was taken to a nearby hospital, but his injuries were said to be superficial.
I had not known this was possible. But it does make sense, lightning is a big old capacitor discharging, isn't it, and if it doesn't get to the ground, there'd be a potential difference someplace still, wouldn't there.David Ferguson rawstory.com wrote:Museum officials reported that the worker touched a piece of equipment that had been charged by a lighting strike and the current slammed into his body, injuring him.
But how cool is that! Hidden lightning! He wasn't just struck down by god's wrath, no - he was knocked over by an electric landmine that was just there, waiting for him, biding it's time, and when he wasn't suspecting anything ... silent but deadly ... lightning!

