Fun Facts

Eyewitness accounts are numerous but instrumented observations are almost nonexistent, so competing hypotheses remain unconfirmed.

An air terminal offers a preferred attachment point and a low-impedance path to earth, so the current goes where the designer chose.

A few centimeters of rubber means nothing to a strike that crossed kilometers of air; it is the metal shell that routes current around you.

A bird on one conductor sits at that conductor’s potential with no path elsewhere, so almost no current flows through it.