DailyDirt: I Should've Changed That Stupid Lock, I Should've Made You Leave Your Key...
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Some people are astonishingly lucky, but it depends on your point of view whether that luck is good or bad. Surviving after falling out of a plane without a parachute has happened to a surprising number of people, but not all of them have fully recovered. Some folks win extraordinary jackpots from the lottery, and then file for bankruptcy shortly afterwards. Maybe it's easier to survive an asteroid field if you don't know the odds.- Ann Hodges is the only person in history confirmed to have been hit by a meteorite. In 1954, a softball-sized rock crashed through the ceiling, bounced off a radio and hit Hodges. She survived the impact, sued to keep the meteorite, but didn't quite thrive after her fifteen minutes of fame. [url]
- Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived the first nuclear bomb that hit Hiroshima, and then he made his way back to his hometown of Nagasaki -- and survived another nuclear detonation. About 150 people were unlucky enough to watch both nuclear bombs, and only a handful experienced both events within the 1.5 mile blast zone of intense radiation. [url]
- Roy Sullivan, aka 'Lightning Man' or the 'Spark Ranger', was a ranger at Shenandoah National Park famous for being struck by lightning SEVEN TIMES (not in a row). He's listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, but no one is encouraging anyone else to try to get struck by lightning, so Sullivan will probably be the only record holder for this category. The odds of being struck 7 times is estimated to be 4.15 in 10^32 -- but if you've been struck just once, there's actually a support group for survivors. [url]
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Filed Under: ann hodges, guinness book of world records, life and death, lightning strike, meteorite, nuclear bombs, radiation, roy sullivan, survivors, tsutomu yamaguchi
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Some more for your collection.A Dutch man was booked on both Malasian Airlines Planes that were lost last year - but chnaged his booking for convenience/money saving reasons on both occasions.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/mh17-and-mh370-dutch-cyclist-booked-to-fly-on -both-doomed-malaysia-airlines-planes/story-fnizu68q-1226995067518
Violet Jessop was on Board the Olympic when it was in a collision, the Titanic when it sank and the Brittanic when it was sunk by a U boat in WW1 - she survived all three.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/woman-survived-sinking-titanic-britannic-colli sion-olympic/
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It's gotta be much more improbable than the chances involved in the case of the person hit by a meteorite.
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And They Say The Universe Is Not Intellegently Designed!
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I can't help thinking though - how many goes do you think it takes Zeus to get guy properly crispy? I'd have thought He'd have had it in one. Zeus really needs to up His game.
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Anatoli Bugorski has to be worth a whole bunch of points in the game, surely.
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A Dutch man was booked on both Malasian Airlines Planes that were lost last year - but chnaged his booking for convenience/money saving reasons on both occasions.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/mh17-and-mh370-dutch-cyclist-booked-to-fly-on -both-doomed-malaysia-airlines-planes/story-fnizu68q-1226995067518
Violet Jessop was on Board the Olympic when it was in a collision, the Titanic when it sank and the Brittanic when it was sunk by a U boat in WW1 - she survived all three.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/woman-survived-sinking-titanic-britannic-colli sion-olympic/
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