A person had an idea of attaching a lightning rod to a metal car battery (NOT inside a car). The lightning rod is 50 feet tall. The battery is 10 feet from the lightning rod, attached to each other by metal cable. The person sat 2 feet from the metal car battery. When the lightning struck, it went down the lightning rod, through the metal cables and when it hit the battery, there was too much power for the battery to handle so it short-circuiting the battery macking it exploded. Upon the explosion, the battery sent shrapnel in every direction. The person's internal organs were peirced by the shrapnel, thus killing him instantly.
Another possibility is that the sulphuric acid inside wil make the battery rupture, thus sending toxic acid everywhere. Could this actually turn out to be a killer drop of liquid?!?!?!

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This may just be posible.

i think the car would turn on so he might of got ran over and died or it would send the electricty in all directions.



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the car would only move if it were in gear, and then it would probably stall.

"sending electricity in all directions"?

are you even sure what electricity is?

I dont think batteries can explode as they dont contain any substances that could cause a reaction like that.
I could be wrong though, so i'd like to see the mythbusters try it.

This I really don't think could happen, but you never know.You could be right.It would be unlikely I think.Would be cool to see it tryed.

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If you put a battery in series with a lightning conductor that does its job and gets struck, the battery will be demolished. Car batteries contain lead plates and sulphuric acid in an enclosed space. The power dumped would boil the acid, rupturing the case with great violence. The space above the acid is typically full of hydrogen and oxygen. A spark would cause these to combine suddenly and exothermically. Whether this would add significantly to the force of the boiling acid is open to question. The debris, being a non-shattering plastic, would probably not harm the person. The boiling acid would.