Buzzin Bizarre

Roy Cleveland Sullivan, a U.S. park ranger is now in the Guinness Book Of Records after being struck by lightning seven times and surviving.

He was struck the first time in 1942 in a fire lookout tower when he was hit in the leg and lost a toenail.  The second time was in 1969 was while he was driving his truck on a mountain road, the strike knocked him unconscious and burned his eyebrows.

In 1970, he was in his front yard and got hit in the shoulder and then again in 1972, when lightning hit the ranger station setting his hair on fire, not one of the luckiest men in the world!

In 1973 a strike hit while in his car, he was blasted out of the vehicle and again his hair caught fire.  It was reported that he started to take a pitcher of water with him after that.

The next was in 1974, he was on a campsite when he was said to have seen a cloud that appeared to be following him and he tried to run away from it but got hit in the ankle.

The final strike came in 1977 while he was fishing.  He was actually hospitalised on that occasion for burns to his chest and stomach.

Amazingly, Mr Sullivan death was not as a consequence of the lightning strikes but by a self-inflicted gun shot wound at the age of 71-years-old over an unrequited love.