I've always wondered if this could happen to me. I always head in when I hear lightning strikes, but I've been caught out in the middle of a lake once when wind drop out and lightening started striking.

www.9news.com.au/national/boy-struck-by-lightning-update-nsw-recovery-in-hospital-after-hit-near-wollongong-on-australia-day/d2352076-f590-45a5-bd3c-02d3fab5360c

Poor kid. I hope he makes a full recovery. What is odd, he wasn't the highest land mark in that area.