Lightning strike leaves a surprise for an unsuspecting motorist

Don't mess with Mother Nature.
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Brian Koerber
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Lightning strike leaves a surprise for an unsuspecting motorist
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Thanks to the rise of cheap and reliable dashcams, the internet is filled with random occurrences people have witnessed behind the wheel.

While we've seen plenty of meteor strikes, instant justice delivered to bad drivers, and even plane crashes, this clip of a bolt of lighting hitting a bird and whacking it right out of the sky is one for the weird record books.

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.


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