How do people end up getting struck by lightning?

Lightning is attracted to metal, so don’t stand close to a pole in a thunder storm! Even if the lightning hits, lets say 7 ft. away from someone they will still feel it.

Usually the person is touching metal or a tree when struck.

As a teen, I was at a racetrack in Kansas, where three men were struck at once. All three were attempting to take down a flag from a flag pole.

Often you’ll hear of a spectator getting struck at a golfing event. The person generally is hiding out in the trees to avoid rain.

I watched a man get hit by lightning in the middle of a parking lot. He was walking to his car and it was raining and stuff. Wrong place right time. He wasn’t hurt real bad. He had a burn on the top of his head and it blew his shoelaces out. Craziest part was, it welded his zipper shut! We filmed it, but that was many years ago.
Interesting trivia, lightning starts from the ground and goes up!

Random event indicating you’re shit out of luck.

Talking on a landline phone is a good way to get struck by lightning while indoors.

You can be struck by lightning when the storm itself is 10 miles away. If you can hear thunder, you’re in the danger zone. Wait at least 30 minutes past the last clap of thunder before leaving shelter.

Rubber shoes do not actually help you.

If your hair stands up on end in a storm – GTFO. It’s a sign that positively charged particles are rising through you.

Any time where there are people outside is a danger moment. The 4th of July is one of the most deadly times in the year for the USA when it comes to lightning strikes.

Small shelters don’t help. A shed, an outhouse, a dugout – probably not going to protect you.

Don’t contact concrete walls or floors, as they likely contain metal mesh or rebar.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0623_040623_lightningfacts_2.html

You don’t have to be the highest thing in an outdoor area to be struck. Also often lightning can travel through the ground.

It is very dangerous to be outside in a thunder storm at all.

I wear aluminum foil on my head, so that the space aliens can’t read my thoughts or telepathically control me. I don’t know why, but this seems to make me very vulnerable to lightning strikes.

Electricity takes the easiest path to the ground. Humans conduct better than air. If you’re out in the open you’re fair game. If you hear thunder get to cover, and not an open building. It’s got to enclosed so you son’t conduct the strike to the ground.
@SadieMartinPaul I think that may be the aliens throwing lightning bolts at your head to dislodge the foil so they can get inside your head.

marinelife is onto something, believe it or not, the lightning actually originates from the ground(or that’s what my Physicist father claims) I cannot explain why it looks like it’s coming from the sky, of course it travels into the sky.. or course I can’t prove it.. ha

My house was struck by lightening a couple summers ago. I was sitting at the front window when it looked like someone tossed fireworks off the roof and the sparks cascaded down all over my patio.
Scared the crap out of me but no damage. Sooo..I was enclosed enough it seems. lol

Luck.

Or, rather, the lack of it.