http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlOiNs5-qCQ
The driver of this Russian SUV can thank science for saving his ass after a bolt of lightning struck his motor on a busy highway.
According to the description on YouTube, the driver of this Toyota Land Cruiser was driving down a busy Russian highway when lightning struck. The driver, a senior Russian official, doesn’t look as though he even notices the bolt and continues on as if nothing happened. Typical Russian motorist.
It’s thanks to the official’s rubber tyres that he’s now safe as the SUV actually acted as a Faraday cage spreading the current around the car and grounding it in the rubber tyres. We bet that he’s just glad lightning doesn’t strike twice.
