Lightning rods in an electrical storm article.

When the bolt was a hundred or so feet from the ground, “lightning rods and tall objects on the tops of nearby buildings produced positive upward discharges, competing to connect to the downward strike,” said study lead author Marcelo Saba, a researcher at Brazil’s National Space Research Institute, in a FAPESP release.

I've heard this was the case, the science has been out there for a decade or two at least, but now you know that you CAN put that space laser on the Legion Hovel and take out balloons that get too close or alien spaceships that are silly enough to check out the establishment.