What is "unlucky" and how to deal with it - it’s someone who, and the heroes of this collection to ask this question is simply pointless. Someone got into trouble because of their own fault, someone by chance, but they all experienced such setbacks in their lifetime that all the everyday problems of our life against their background are just minor troubles.
Successful failures Frané Selaka
Music teachers from Croatia Frane Selak reporters more than once proclaimed the most successful person in the world, although he considers it completely different. This 89-year-old man hung seven times in the balance of death, but each time he came out of the water dry. On account of Selak's “failures”, a fall into the ice river along with a train that went off the rails; landing from a depressurized aircraft in a haystack; salvation along the river from a sunken bus; rescue from a burning car a second before the explosion; successfully extinguished a fire on the head that arose due to accidental fire of hair at a gas station; bruises from a collision with a bus that did not have time to brake when Frané crossed the road, and a fall from a car crashing from a mountain height after a collision with a truck. The last story ended happily thanks to the dexterity of Selak - despite the age of 67, the man was able to cling to a tree branch during the fall, where he waited for help. The reward for all the trials Franet won was a million dollars in the lottery in 2002. And do you think our hero is a loser, or is he still the luckiest person on Earth?
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The hero who was mistaken for a villain
In 1996, Richard Jewell, a security guard at Atlanta Olympic Park, prevented the deaths of a huge number of people by spotting a suspicious bag before a concert organized for the centenary of the Olympic Games. Even before the arrival of the security services, in a few seconds he managed to lead a large number of people from the place where an explosion soon broke out, which resulted in the death of a woman and 100 people who were injured and burned. Undoubtedly, if not for Jewell, there would have been more victims, but the FBI, instead of the award, decided to accuse him of what happened. For two months the hero was subject to investigations and accusations of committing a terrorist act, but, fortunately, the real criminal was caught, and the name of Jewell was justified.
Free rider
Kostis Mitsotakis was the only resident of the Spanish village of Sodeto who did not buy a lottery ticket in 2010. As a result, each ticket turned out to be winning, and all farmers received prizes from 130, 000 to several million dollars. In the main photo you can see how the residents of Sodeto celebrated their massive victory.
Few people know that the real inventor of the phone is the Italian Antonio Meucci. He discovered the possibility of transmitting sound with copper pulses back in 1830. However, a series of failures did not allow the scientist to patent his invention - at first his phone did not arouse the interest of investors, later he did not have $ 10 for a patent. Alexander Bell, who worked in the same workshop with Meucci, stole his idea and, having slightly modified it, patented in his own name. Unfortunately, the present inventor died without waiting for trial with Bell.
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The British couple Jason and Jenny Cairns-Lawrence managed to come to New York for the first time at the time of the famous tragedy of September 11, 2001. Terribly frightened, they decided to spend their 2005 vacation in London, but the day before their visit there was an attack by suicide bombers in the London Underground, which killed more than 50 people. In 2008, Jason and Jenny decided to relax in India - however, luck again left them and the arrival coincided with the attack of terrorists who opened fire at the railway station and one of the best hotels in Mumbai.
Five hurricanes destroyed five houses of Melanie Martinez
Five times, American Melanie Martinez built her house in the same area of Luisina. It's hard to believe, but Hurricanes Betsy, Juan, George, Katrina and Isaac became guests of Melanie in 1965, 1985, 1998, 2005 and 2012. It is worth noting that after the fourth hurricane Martinez was chosen as a participant in the reality show "Vaults". Her house was completely remodeled to the tune of $ 20, 000 at the expense of the TV channel. The broadcast was broadcast two weeks before Hurricane Isaac visited Melanie and her family.
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The failed glory of Pete Best
Drummer Pete Best is often called the most unlucky person in the history of music. The fact is that members of the cult rock band The Beatles decided to replace him with Ringo Starr just a few weeks before the group reached the top of the musical Olympus with the song Love me do.
The only woman affected by the meteorite
Scientists argue that the chance of a meteorite falling not only in some locality, but also on a specific person is extremely small - so much so that the chance of suffering from a tornado, a lightning strike and a hurricane at the same time is more real. However, Anne Hodges, a resident of Alabama, can not refuse luck - a space traveler broke the roof of the house and fell on it during sleep.
Victim of two atomic bombs
Only ten Japanese out of more than 280, 000 victims of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki saw both disasters with their own eyes. And only one - Tsutomu Yamaguchi - managed to be at the epicenter of both tragedies and survive. On August 6, 1945, the Kid was dropped on Hiroshima, bursting about 3 kilometers from Yamaguchi, who is on a business trip here. He received severe burns all over the torso and rupture of the eardrum, but survived. Escaping from the disaster, the very next day Tsutomu took the train and headed home to Nagasaki. On August 9, Tsutomu told his boss in horror about the explosion that he saw, when suddenly everything around him was again lit up by the white light already familiar to him - it was an explosion of the "Fat Man" dropped on Nagasaki that day.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi not only survived these terrible catastrophes, but also lived to the age of 93, having died at the last stage of cancer from the received radiation.
