My old agency has lost a few patrol cars to lightening over the years. We use to have low band frequency radios and the old 4-5 foot tall whip antennas. Lightening usually got the antennas, then the radios and then the rest of the electronics in the car.

Along the same lines. I was directing traffic at a crash scene one afternoon in the middle of a frog drowning thunderstorm, in the middle of no where, being the tallest thing around, with lightening everywhere. I realized I was standing out in that storm, directing traffic with an old 5D cell Aluminum Maglight, standing in running water and thinking this isn't very smart.