What you are about to see is one of the freakiest acts of nature. A happy Canadian couple called Al and Betty Perry were driving their pickup truck down a local highway minding their own business when all of a sudden BOOM! A lightning bolt landed right on their car, as if God himself aimed it at them.

Now, if we didn’t believe in science and that there is a logical explanation for everything, this incident would have freaked us out! A few hundred years ago, such incident would call for a mass sacrifice to the god of thunder. These days, we can attribute it to the size of the truck, the fact that it’s made largely from metal, global warming – just because these days every bad thing is caused by global warming – and ultimately, back luck.

The whole thing was captured on a security camera:

The lightning melted half of the vehicle, messed up all the onboard electronic devices and caused the airbags to deploy. Fortunately, though, Al and Betty were rescued by a Police officer who was passing by. A few days later they celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary.

Via Carbuzz