Missed this one a few days ago:
A holidaymaker narrowly escaped death when lightning struck her tongue stud in an electrical storm.
Becky Nyang, 26, was temporarily blinded, unable to talk and badly blistered by the bolt of electricity that surged through her body via the piercing.
Ms Nyang, an airport worker from Reading, Berkshire, was on holiday in Corfu when she and a friend were caught in a downpour.
A flash of lightning bounced off a nearby archway and hit her in the face, where it was conducted by the metal jewellery in her tongue.
The charge was so hot it left her with blisters on her mouth, face and feet and she could not speak for three days.
Ms Nyang, who said she feared she was going to die, must await tests from doctors at the Royal Berkshire Hospital before returning to work for Virgin at Heathrow.
She told reporters: "All I could see was lightning, nothing else.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/berkshire/3047436.stm
A holidaymaker narrowly escaped death when lightning struck her tongue stud in an electrical storm.
Becky Nyang, 26, was temporarily blinded, unable to talk and badly blistered by the bolt of electricity that surged through her body via the piercing.
Ms Nyang, an airport worker from Reading, Berkshire, was on holiday in Corfu when she and a friend were caught in a downpour.
A flash of lightning bounced off a nearby archway and hit her in the face, where it was conducted by the metal jewellery in her tongue.
The charge was so hot it left her with blisters on her mouth, face and feet and she could not speak for three days.
Ms Nyang, who said she feared she was going to die, must await tests from doctors at the Royal Berkshire Hospital before returning to work for Virgin at Heathrow.
She told reporters: "All I could see was lightning, nothing else.
Want to learn more?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/berkshire/3047436.stm
