LONDON -- Lightning -- particularly the forked,Love Conquest scary kind -- isn't all that common in Britain.
SEE ALSO: Because regular lightning is not scary enough, here's T-Rex lightningThe man who filmed the footage below in Bournemouth, UK, on Tuesday probably wasn't expecting to capture much more than a bit of pelting rain when he turned his camera on.
He got a fair bit more than he bargained for, though.
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It's sort of hard to see what's going on at first, but if you re-watch the clip it looks as though a bolt of lightning hits the tree by one of the parked cars in the distance.
Luckily, nothing was damaged and no-one was hurt.
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