If you've been told that lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice, don't believe it.
Just ask Mark Lunsford, a self-appointed national crusader to Protect the Children.
The Shuttle launch pad gets struck time and time again, often more than once during the same storm.
Lightning is a weird force of nature, zapping the roof of a low-lying structure while totally missing a nearby 60 foot oak tree.
A bolt of lightning is indiscriminate in the strike to balance a charge separation: the positive and the negative.
Mark Lunsford grabbed hold of the bolt that struck his family. He harnassed the negative to effect a positive charge in the name of his tragically deceased daughter, Jessica.
To ensure the safety of Florida's children, the changes in the law were passed lightning-fast through the Florida legislature, widespread and far-reaching. The new laws zig-zagged oversight in previously low-lying areas of security concern, such as requiring background checks of construction personnel working on school campuses.
Once something-or someone-is struck by lightning, immunity is not granted.
Lightning struck twice with the recent arrest of Lunsford's son, 18-year-old Joshua, who stands accused in Ohio of a sexual conduct with a minor. If convicted for the alleged offense, the young man finds himself facing the full brunt of the laws advocated by his father-a national crusader for tougher sex-offender laws.
Lightning simply has no memory when protecting the children.