Campbell Gillespie, from Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, has detailed his death-defying experience in a new book.
A Scots taxi driver who survived being struck by lightning 20 years ago says he continues to feel the effects of the freak accident every day.
The 60-year-old, who lives in Prescot, Merseyside, with his wife Christine, said the lightning that hit him that day continues to plague his health."My health's getting worse. It's taken me 21 years to learn to walk again, talk again, feed myself again. And I'm only 25 percent back to what I was before it happened. I walk with two sticks, and I'm looking at an amputation of my left leg - all because of a little moment on August 21, 2003.
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"I have to show them my chest where my gold chain vaporised into my skin," he says, laughing. "Then they go, 'oh my God', and I don't hear another peep out of them."
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