Some people HAPPY to be struck by lightning
Lightning is not all bad news. On rare occasion, its victims have welcomed strikes. In 1782, a paralysed member of household of the Duke of Kent was struck by lightning. He survived, with his paralysis cured.
Edwin Robinson, a resident of Falmouth, Massachusetts, had been blind and deaf for nine years following a road accident. Then, as he sheltered beneath a tree during a storm on June 3 1980, he was struck by lightning. He lay unconscious for 20 minutes with his hearing aid shattered. When he awoke, his sight and hearing began to return. Bus this is very much the exception. The rule is that lightning is dangerous.

- Derek Elson, New Scientist 24 June 1989