06-18-2011, 02:29 AM
I was leaning against a metal concession stand with 2 friends at a bluegrass festival when a lightning storm came up. I stepped forward and was going to turn around and tell them they'd better not lean on the metal when they both got struck. One of them grabbed his butt and yelped and the other one collapsed, but got up before anyone called an ambulance. Someone there said that if just one of us had been touching the metal he would probably have been killed.