RE: a bolt of lightning and a puff of smoke.
Wow, C64s and STs! I sure miss some of the games from the Atari 800 and ST days. I should have never sold my stuff.
Another way to get zapped is thru the cable lines. I lost a TV that way.
My son had a Dell that cooked a motherboard, CPU (twice), and ethernet card. No lightning, just stuff burning up.