A holidaymaker narrowly escaped death when lightning struck her tongue stud in an electrical storm. Becky Nyang, 26, was temporarily blinded, unable to talk and badly blistered by the bolt of electricity that surged through her body via the piercing.

Ms Nyang, an airport worker from Reading, Berkshire, was on holiday in Corfu when she and a friend were caught in a downpour. A flash of lightning bounced off a nearby archway and hit her in the face, where it was conducted by the metal jewellery in her tongue.

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My tongue is pierced. I'll have to make sure and keep my mouth closed during lightening storms!!

So the moral of this story is: Do not pierce your tongue

Thank God she only had her tongue pierced.

Aslan

@ Schadeaux!

Hmmm "lightning tongue"...sounds good to me.....