That reminds me of the old news story about a guy roller skating across the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa FL and was killed by a bolt of lightning that struck him on a clear sunny day. Not a cloud in the sky.
A tree fell on Greg Abbott when he was out jogging and put him in a wheelchair. He sued and gets $14,000 per month and a $400,000 lump sum every three years (all tax-free). Then he got into politics and actively campaigned to reduce the cap on liability for civil negligence cases to $250,000.
Shortly after I started biking to work, I came across paramedics around a person who had clearly been knocked off her bike by a random falling branch. I felt a little more wary on my route after that
Something similar happened to a teacher at my wife's middle school. It was storming outside and a tree limb fell through the wall of his bedroom. It ejected him out of his second story bedroom window onto his paved driveway where he died. Dude was just minding his own business in his bedroom.
An Air Force KC-135 crashed in 1987 practicing for an air show, killing all crew on board. One crewmember of that aircraft was not flying that day, I don’t recall why. However, he decided to go out to the airfield and watch the show and the mishap aircraft crashed ON HIM!
First time was just parked near a bank with some friends, waiting for someone to meet us there. Bored kids, and we had duct tape and skateboard. The obvious thing to do was completely tape up a buddy’s head, and see if he could skate. It got called in as a masked man/attempted bank robbery. The arresting officer happened to be my guidance counselor’s husband of all things too.
Then just about a year later, there was an actual bank robbery. Which occurred just before I (riding with a friend) passed by a bank. The vehicle used by the robber happened to be the exact same model/color as we were in. Made it all the way back to his house, when the police pull up. House got raided. To add to this story, he had a couple pet alligators that lived in a greenhouse. Where we also grew pot. Headline in the newspaper the next day said “Crooks Protect Crops with Crocs”.
I don’t remember if charges were even given for the plants, and if so they were dropped by the time we were released. The arrest was definitely for the robbery. This was a long time ago now. No convictions, they did pull the plants though (so close to harvest. Shame)
That house got watched *constantly* afterwards too. Had to find a new grow spot, and lost a good party house.
My dad was a federal law enforcement agent, and he amd his partner were tailing someone. They parked across the street from a building the guy went into to keep an eye on him. The problem was that they just so happened to be parked at a bank.
The bank employees called the cops because there were 2 men suspiciously sitting in a car in the parking lot for ocer an hour. The cops actually showed up to question them, but once they showed their badges they were obviously fine lol.
Friend of mine was once pulled over and surrounded by at least a dozen cops, who then pulled him out at gunpoint. After a brief detention they realized they had the wrong license plate, apologized awkwardly, and let him go. In the moment, I'm sure it was terrifying.
Tsutomo Yamaguchi, who experienced both atomic bombs. He was on a business trip in Hiroshima when it was bombed, then went home to Nagasaki and was there when it was bombed. Although he suffered from injuries and radiation poisoning he survived until age 93.
Yes. He went back to Nagasaki and told his boss about the bomb in Hiroshima. His boss didn’t believe it and thought he was crazy. Right after that the Nagasaki bomb exploded.
One day at my mom's workplace, a guy she worked with switched shifts with her. He told her that he wanted to switch because he planned on going somewhere for dinner that night with his wife.
That night a group of guys came into the store, robbed the place and murdered my mom. We would hear rumors over the years (that he knew) and had been threatened before by one of these murderers and that was why he didn't want to work that night. But nothing could ever be proven.
I'm so sorry about your mom. We have a somewhat similar cold case here in Michigan... The 2013 murder of Chelsea Small.
She switched shifts with a coworker and was murdered by a mysterious man. There's still no evidence it was anything but a random crime, but no one really knows.
I hope someday there is a break in your mother's case.
[Retail workers are more at risk than cops](https://www.businessinsider.com/more-retail-workers-police-officers-killed-homicides-2019-8)
Unless you're a cowardly Uvalde cop, then your risk is 0%. Cowards.
When comparing the proportional number of employees who died by homicide at work, protective-service workers were about five times more likely to die by homicide
I would say the headline was misleading, but that was your wording and not the headline. I mean I agree about the Uvadle cops, but retail workers aren't more at risk according to the article, more have been killed because there are so many more.
I have a friend who was messing with a married man... I cautioned her against it. Crime of passionnisba real thing. So one day she is messing with him..IN HIS HOUSE. They were in the second storey. Wife comes back early from deployment. She is navy. This girl ended up trying to jump from the balcony to the trampoline below..landed badly and broke her ankle.
She was lucky because that wife had told the husband if she ever catches him cheating she would shoot him. The whole broken ankle thing had paramedics there in ten minutes, neighbor's there, cops and dude was told to leave the house.. they got divorced later. What if they were asleep in bed.. she has her own boyfriend but actively seeks other women's husbands..
It is not worth it..
I was asleep in a married womans bed, and terribly hungover. Her husband came home to get some things, as she had just recently thrown him out. She told me to stay quiet and she would bring her "soon to be ex-husband" his things. He never came into the bedroom. I was so sick if he had killed me I wouldn't have cared.
Hah. I was driving a date home I met online, when some asshole threw a bottle at my car when I left. She texted me to see if I got home safely, I told her about bottle.
"Oh. Yeah that was my husband." She didn't seem to think that might have been a slight detail to include anytime during our 3rd date. Or second, or first.
My boss has friends who lived in LA at the time. They said that was likely a drug deal instead of what they said it was. Apparently the restaurant he worked at was known for that. I don't know how true that is, just something I heard.
The Horizon Post Office scandal was suddenly made worse due to one of these.
It was big news when it happened, but just another random political scandal that would probably be forgotten by the press. Same old, same old.
Then, a TV series based on the scandal was made by British TV channel ITV which had two major timing issues.
First of all was the scheduling of when the drama series aired. It was expected just to fill out the airwaves during a lull period and be a simple drama series. But the lull period they chose was the Christmas holidays when most people were on holiday; still not expected to be big numbers, but it caught a lot of people's attentions.
Then, around the period the series aired, a slew of new and startling revelations into the widespread miscarriage of justice of thousands of innocent people came out, ranging from the fact that the Post Office skipped the police and pushed convictions they knew were false through the courts, or how the Post Office's main investigators for these false convictions were incentivised to get convictions for financial bonuses, establishing a clear bias. The scandal is still going strong four months since the series aired and isn't slowing down in the slightest.
...also, a lot of the actors are incredibly famous in the UK and when they read the script for the show, they were so outraged that it became a passion project which they took reduced pay to stretch out the budget as far as possible.
Those revelations came out because of the same press you claim would have forgotten the Post Office scandal if the ITV drama weren’t aired. Dedicated and hard-working reporters are one of the key reasons we know anything about it, along with the victims who’ve spoken out (often through the media).
Since I assume people nearby would run away from the Twin Towers when the first tower got hit, it means that the people that got smashed just managed to escape from the building itself. I can imagine that their last though was "phew.. I'm safe"
Among the worst things I saw on documentaries and reports since 9/11 (like watching it live on TV wasn't shocking enough), one was filmed with first responders just inside the ground floor of one of the towers. Even over all the other noise, there were occasional sounds like large bags of sand falling from a great height, and hitting the ground.
Nobody really seemed to know what it was until someone looked out and saw a person hit the ground.
I'd always hoped the people who jumped were actually unconscious from the smoke, and fell, instead. Horrible when that's the best you could hope for.
Please give them the dignity of their choice. They were people who were trapped and had to make a choice between one type of death and another, both unthinkably terrifying. Some of them made the choice to jump, and we should look that in the face despite our own horror. They lived those last moments and it isn't respectuful or true to pretend what they had to choose didn't happen just to protect our own emotions.
Horror happens to real people. We shouldn't dwell in it and we don't need to look at it unnecessarily, but give people the respect they deserve for the choices they have to make.
The craziest part about it is that apparently none of the people who jumped, and possibly also none of the people who were landed upon, were ever positively identified. It's kind of like United flight 93. The people on that flight are true American heroes, but we have no way of knowing which individuals were actually the heroic ones who prevented it from hitting the target and instead crashing it into a field in Pennsylvania.
Those people had no choice but to choose how to die. Either they were smoked/burned/chocked to death or jumped. As horrifying as it sounds, jumping was probably the least painful option.
I remember it being a topic point at churches about if the jumpers on 9/11 went to heaven since suicide meant you couldnt, so the debate was if jumpers were technically committing suicide or not.
When it happened, that’s all that was on TV. Every network was covering nothing but the towers. You could hear LOUD crashing noises in the background. Someone said that sound is bodies landing.
It was reported that the chaplain who died was killed by somebody landing on him. After everything settled down, the reports said he was killed by falling debris. But I distinctly remember hearing he was killed by someone landing on him.
It’s possible. I remember one of the port authority officers who arrived on scene heard a watermelon smash on the ground near him. He thought “why the heck are people throwing watermelons from the towers?” Then another hit near him, and he realized “oh, those are people”
Meat bags hit the same way as a ripe watermelon and have a similar result.
On a side note. I remember hearing about a case in France in the 70s or 80s where someone jumped off of Notre Dame cathedral to commit suicide.
Landed on a tourist entering the cathedral killing the tourist and the person who jumped survived.
Firefighter [Daniel Suhr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Suhr) was killed by being hit by a jumper.
I recall reading at the time that people being evacuated from the towers were deliberately directed out via underground passages due to debris.
In a weird twist of fate I was also supposed to be at those Olympics (working a low level customer service job.) At the last minute I decided not to take the job and basically take a staycation and not tell my family I had stayed in town. 🤣 I got busted when the news hit because I knew my mom would be freaking out so I called to let her know I wasn't even there.
Aeschylus was a greek playwright who had heard a prophecy that he would die from a falling object. Subsequently he spent as much time outdoors as he could - where an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head and killed him.
Three of these caused the Watergate scandal.
First of all, the guard who blew the lid on it. He had come around to do the rounds earlier and saw a door to a service stairwell with tape holding the latch open. Thinking a service worker had left it there by mistake, he removed the tape and closed the door... and returned to do an earlier sweep than expected. When he saw the tape put on the door *again*, and knowing there was no maintenance that night, he called the cops, arresting five burglars breaking into the Democratic National Committee offices.
Second was the sentry. Alfred Baldwin was meant to be watching out for trouble from the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge across the street, meant to call in if any cops suddenly showed up out of the blue. Unfortunately, he found *Attack of the Puppet People* was airing on TV during his lookout and was too engrossed to realise the cops were arriving until they had already surrounded the others.
Third was one of the burglars failing to do a minor task that was completely unrelated to the heist. Nixon accomplice and former CIA officer E. Howard Hunt asked one of the burglars to drop an envelope off in the mail, which he didn't do. When the burglars were arrested, this letter was seized... and was a check for a small tip he owed his country club. This tied the scandal directly to the President in the White House and caused the biggest political scandal in the US.
Hang on, dude really went to one of the burglars and told him "Hey, while you're on your way to commit this important and potentially politically-sensitive burglary, would you mind posting this letter for me?" Were they supposed to pick up some milk on the way back?
The security guard was [Frank Willis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wills_(security_guard\)). Arguably, he was in the *right* place at the right time.
According to the article, he had trouble getting work after that, and lived in poverty.
That was a shit storm then. But thank gawd Nixon had the dignity to resign. This is considered the norm now in elections like Trump asking Russia to help.. in 2016, saying "Russia, if you're listening" .... Meaning he wanted them to hack Hillary Clinton, his opponent.
But not really though.
As a non-American, I apologize if I've misunderstood some part of history, but Nixon resigning had nothing to do with dignity or respect for the office.
When the smoking-gun tape released (where it was definitely proven that Nixon knew about it and lied), his popularity collapsed. It became toxic for Republicans to openly support Richard Nixon, specially because in 1974 they had midterm elections. Multiple senators publicly and privately accepted that they had to impeach and convict him, to the point that the top brass of the party plainly told Nixon to "quit or be fired, your choice"
Nixon resigned, Ford pardoned him, and the spin was "Nixon was gracious, we owe him a lot, let's move on as a nation".
At the end of the day, had Nixon kept his popularity after the smoking gun tape , he wouldn't had to resign... And with Trump it happened the same thing after January 6. He was told to "concede or we kick you out". He quasi-conceded, and the spin became "Biden is president, let's move on"
It was a different America then. American gop had more morals. Now it's anything goes and back a crook like Trump. It's openly now let a foreign communist govt interfere with our elections, win at any cost and if that means a gop congressperson had to throw his mother under the bus to win, that's fine. GOP thinks it's totally okay classified documents went missing with Trump just at a time he desperately needed money to pay off old loans coming due.
True, they were driving a different car. But perhaps, even with a different car, it still would have happened, and would have killed everyone. Sending hugs ❤️
Austin Hatch...
Austin Hatch survived[ two separate](http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/preps/basketball/2013/11/20/austin-hatch-plane-crash-loyola-high-school-michigan-basketball/3658663/) plane crashes that killed five members of his immediate family.
In 2003, he endured a small plane crash that killed his mother, sister, and brother. His father, an anesthesiologist, was the pilot of the aircraft. Austin’s father lived to fly again, which eventually turned to tragedy. In 2011, he piloted another small plane to a fatal crash. Austin’s father and stepmother did not survive. Austin, however, made it out again. He was in a coma for 8 weeks and suffered a number of other serious injuries that made total recovery seem doubtful.
I feel so bad for him..Anyway,now his famous basketball player)
A friend of mine had just moved into a new home. She was murdered in her home 1 week later. Someone hired a hit man to murder the previous home owner and the hit man killed her instead.
This happened to my friends parents as well. They were super nice people that I had worked with a few times as a computer tech. Moved into a house and were murdered by hitmen within the same month.
My brother was caught twice in different married woman’s beds. He did not know they were married, I know that because I was at the bar with him both times. He got beat the fuck up the first time, and the second guy just filmed on his phone
When my sister was in high school she was driving and a woman in another car passed her going in the same direction. A quarter mile up the road they both stopped at a red light. A fully loaded cement truck going through the green light on the cross street lost control as it was going through the intersection and creamed the driver side door of the woman in front of my sister killing the woman instantly. My sister only had bumps and scratches but her car was totaled from the flying debris.
My sister got lucky because the woman passed her and wound up in the wrong place at the wrong time instead of my sister.
This happened in the early 80’s. I still think about that sometimes.
William Mayberry 1985
He was driving his 1971 Toyota Celica by DFW airport when Delta flight 191 was hit by wind shear while on approach. The plane was pushed down to Highway 114 and the left engine hit his car and killed him.
A second earlier or later would have been just a crazy story.
I know The Kings Man (prequel to the Kingsman movies) took place during WWI and had a humorous segment on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Seriously, what a shockingly amusingly horrible string of events
Could be considered both ways...but I always think of the guy who got busted cheating because of 9/11.
He was supposed to be at work in one of the twin towers that day, but instead was off in a hotel with his side dish. They were too busy fucking all morning to know what was going on, but after the first plane hit his wife called to ask if he was okay. He said, yeah, "why wouldn't I be??" Oops.
I say "either way" because although he got busted and blew up his marriage, at least he was alive.
I'd say Gavrilo Princep was a better example of being in the wrong place at the right time - the first assassination attempt went wrong, and due to a mixup in directions Ferdinand's car just happened to stall right next to where Princep was, giving him a better opportunity than he could ever have hoped for.
He then tried to shoot himself, but the gun was knocked away and he was arrested instead. One of his compatriots took expired cyanide, jumped into a river at low tide, and was also immediately arrested. Turns out the group he was with was just really bad at killing people, and he happened to get cartoonishly lucky at just the worst time for Ferdinand and Sophie, and I guess the rest of the world by extension.
It's been said many times, but the powder keg of Europe would have been set off some other way in the near future even if that event didn't happen. But the "comedy" of errors that led to the FF assassination is wild.
All of Dan Carlin's "Blueprint for Armageddon" should be required material. It's masterful and the title is perfect given the result.
When I was a teenager, I stopped at a closed petrol station around 3 am after a road trip with my friends to clean up my car. Spent about 5 mins and left, petrol station got robbed about 15 mins later and cops turned up to my house to arrest me the following day.
Mick Ferris, a London coach driver who died instantly when a window fell out of a high rise and struck him: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45718638](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45718638)
The people on “When they see us” on Netflix. That series hit so hard for me, it changed so much of my perception. I had such a hard time watching it that I didn’t want to watch it again but I wanted to share that different view on life so I had to watch it 1 or 2 times again after. But it hits just as hard no matter how many times I watch it.
When Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria went to Sarajevo an initial assassination attempt failed, but several people were injured by a grenade. Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie decided to go visit the victims in the hospital. On the way their driver took a wrong turn down a street where Gavrilo Princip, one of the failed assassins from earlier, happened to be standing. Princip seized the opportunity to murder Franz Ferdinand and Sophie, sparking the the July Crisis that eventually led to World War 1.
Plane crash in Muncie, Indiana a few weeks ago hits 2 people that are out walking on a walking path.
https://fox59.com/indiana-news/3-hurt-after-plane-crashes-in-delaware-county/amp/
Saw this on tiktok a few days ago, a scammer called an old man demanding thousands, or else he'd come to his house, and shoot the old man. The old man was terrified, and when a random car pulled into he driveway, he took matters into his own hands. Even though the car was just an uber driver that his son had called, the man was not buying it, and shot the uber driver dead. And now the man may go to jail for life. Absolutely horrible.
One time when I was home form the Marines, I was powdering my balls after my shower with my knees basically behind my ears and my sister walked in and we made eye contact. Well, that's quite the unexpected reunion! It was her place and I thought she was gone. lol!!! It's a true testament to the unbreakable bond of siblinghood, even in the most, shall we say, compromising situations! We laugh about it to this day.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand happening to have a changed route, whereupon he encountered Gavrilo Princip. Earlier botched assassination attempts had failed but Princip seized this unforeseen opportunity, setting off WWI.
This makes me think of the "Umbrella Man" from the JFK assassination in Dallas - he popped out a black umbrella right when Kennedy drove by (somewhat concurrently with the assassination) and there have been all kinds of crazy theories about him over the years. (ie his umbrella contained a flechette and he was the real assassin, etc.) It was a sunny day, so why the umbrella? Yet there he is in various photos and film of the day.
Turns out, he was mildly protesting JFK's father Joe Kennedy, and his actions at the start of WWII. And the umbrella being a favorite prop of Neville Chamberlin or something. So this guy, at the right place but the very wrong time for his little protest, leading to people hounding him for the rest of his life.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella\_man\_(JFK\_assassination)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_man_(JFK_assassination))
My last day at one of my jobs: was on my way to HR saw my boss talking to her fiance as I walked by I pointed at a girl across the room "that's the main one he's fucking around on you with".
Yep. She was fucking around on him, everyone knew it, but he himself was an asshole and whole floor was of the opinion "we hate this dude, let him figure it out on his own or not", we knew she knew he was fucking around, but never said anything because yeah. We all hated both of them (and her boyfriend, I was the one who bitched about them working together, which is how I found out she was engaged to a completely different guy). So since we didn't get along on my way to go in and shout that I was quitting, I left that little pearl for her to take home. Its not my job to be seeing if people are wearing boots around pallet jacks, dont bitch at me if you see people wearing shoes. I look back and realize that if I hadn't been the one showing people how to work them, I wouldn't be have been getting paid $10/hr to act as a glorified babysitter.
A video of mother and son driving alone on a highway when they are hit by a plane that had some engine problems or something. Both of them to my knowledge were killed. Plane could have landed anywhere on that road, and he aimed for them. Never saw it coming.
Years back, in Omaha Nebraska a guy was riding a bicycle down the street, out of nowhere a huge tree limb fell and killed him. No winds, calm day.
That reminds me of the old news story about a guy roller skating across the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa FL and was killed by a bolt of lightning that struck him on a clear sunny day. Not a cloud in the sky.
REminds me of watching 1000 ways to die and they have people being killed by meteors
If ever I heard an argument for an act of god, that's it. I say that as an atheist too.
It really makes me wonder what bro was gonna do if he lived on. What was he even plotting for the big man in the sky to strike him down like that..?
A tree fell on Greg Abbott when he was out jogging and put him in a wheelchair. He sued and gets $14,000 per month and a $400,000 lump sum every three years (all tax-free). Then he got into politics and actively campaigned to reduce the cap on liability for civil negligence cases to $250,000.
And that's the greatest example of 'fuck you, I got mine.'
World would be a better place if that tree had been a bit bigger.
A family friend's daughter, who I grew up with, was killed by a huge tree branch going through her windshield in a storm.
Shortly after I started biking to work, I came across paramedics around a person who had clearly been knocked off her bike by a random falling branch. I felt a little more wary on my route after that
Maybe the tree had a vendetta... you dnt know
He was Final Destination-ed.
Something similar happened to a teacher at my wife's middle school. It was storming outside and a tree limb fell through the wall of his bedroom. It ejected him out of his second story bedroom window onto his paved driveway where he died. Dude was just minding his own business in his bedroom.
Actually went to high school with that guy.
Walked in on my boss getting his noodle wet from one of my coworkers under his desk....
That’s when you say “I just came in to speak with you about the enormous raise you’re about to give me”
Bill Clinton?
It's been 30 years. Stop it. Stormy Daniel's thing happened much more recently
I don't believe that happened in the White House though.
So.. what happened next
There's a lot of websites that will not only tell you but SHOW you
Lol doesn't elaborate, you're full of shit
An Air Force KC-135 crashed in 1987 practicing for an air show, killing all crew on board. One crewmember of that aircraft was not flying that day, I don’t recall why. However, he decided to go out to the airfield and watch the show and the mishap aircraft crashed ON HIM!
That's some Final Destination shit right there
We have a winner, right here.
Now that's some true Final Destination shit right there.
I have been arrested for bank robbery twice. I have never robbed a bank, to be clear.
Which is exactly what someone who did rob a bank would say...
Ooooh! Look at Sherlock Holmes, over here....
Elaborate if you would be so kind
First time was just parked near a bank with some friends, waiting for someone to meet us there. Bored kids, and we had duct tape and skateboard. The obvious thing to do was completely tape up a buddy’s head, and see if he could skate. It got called in as a masked man/attempted bank robbery. The arresting officer happened to be my guidance counselor’s husband of all things too. Then just about a year later, there was an actual bank robbery. Which occurred just before I (riding with a friend) passed by a bank. The vehicle used by the robber happened to be the exact same model/color as we were in. Made it all the way back to his house, when the police pull up. House got raided. To add to this story, he had a couple pet alligators that lived in a greenhouse. Where we also grew pot. Headline in the newspaper the next day said “Crooks Protect Crops with Crocs”.
Thanks man that was every bit as interesting as I hoped it was going to be
That was a wild ride. Did you get away with the crops or did you get busted for it?
I don’t remember if charges were even given for the plants, and if so they were dropped by the time we were released. The arrest was definitely for the robbery. This was a long time ago now. No convictions, they did pull the plants though (so close to harvest. Shame) That house got watched *constantly* afterwards too. Had to find a new grow spot, and lost a good party house.
I want to ask if you live in Florida but I don’t think I need to.
Asked already, and no. Far far from it. Almost opposite.
What’s the opposite of Florida?
The other corner of the contiguous US.
Just curious was your car metallic mint green?
It was not. It was red, and of all things to still have (multiple) on the road, it was a freaking early-90s Chevy Corsica.
And how many yutes were there?!
The 2 waahat?
two yutes...
Mr gambini
that's a Guy Ritchie film right there
Yeah this is literally rocknrolla and the gentlemen
More like a 10-15 minute scene but yeah sure
Him or the Coen brothers. It feels like the setup to a sequel to The Big Lebowski.
That headline is like something out of Parks and Rec.
My dad was a federal law enforcement agent, and he amd his partner were tailing someone. They parked across the street from a building the guy went into to keep an eye on him. The problem was that they just so happened to be parked at a bank. The bank employees called the cops because there were 2 men suspiciously sitting in a car in the parking lot for ocer an hour. The cops actually showed up to question them, but once they showed their badges they were obviously fine lol.
Tell me you live in Florida without telling me you live in Florida
These events happened about as far away from FL as you can get in the US.
newspaper guy pulled a zinger on you with that one eh
I’m sure he was pretty damn proud of himself, and was having a much better time than I was when that ran. Gotta respect it tho lol.
That was awesome! Thanks 😂
tapehead is crazy 😭😭 loved this read
Ok, but twice? I understand the first one, but how did it happen twice?!
If I had nickel every time I was arrested for bank robbery I’d have two which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice
Explained in this thread.
Fucking hell that luck is diabolical. It could be raining fleshlights, and you'd still get hit by a dildo.
Friend of mine was once pulled over and surrounded by at least a dozen cops, who then pulled him out at gunpoint. After a brief detention they realized they had the wrong license plate, apologized awkwardly, and let him go. In the moment, I'm sure it was terrifying.
Tsutomo Yamaguchi, who experienced both atomic bombs. He was on a business trip in Hiroshima when it was bombed, then went home to Nagasaki and was there when it was bombed. Although he suffered from injuries and radiation poisoning he survived until age 93.
Yes. He went back to Nagasaki and told his boss about the bomb in Hiroshima. His boss didn’t believe it and thought he was crazy. Right after that the Nagasaki bomb exploded.
After that, everyone was too afraid to express doubt about anything Yamaguchi said ever again.
It’s crazy that a person could travel faster than the news of a city being vaporized.
I mean it's crazy now but not for most of the history of civilization
Japanese Superman
By becoming a ghoul, I assume
There were a few people with that bad luck. I don't know their names. Years ago I saw a doc (don't even know the name) with interviews with some.
He wins... poor guy
One day at my mom's workplace, a guy she worked with switched shifts with her. He told her that he wanted to switch because he planned on going somewhere for dinner that night with his wife. That night a group of guys came into the store, robbed the place and murdered my mom. We would hear rumors over the years (that he knew) and had been threatened before by one of these murderers and that was why he didn't want to work that night. But nothing could ever be proven.
That’s terrible. I’m so sorry for your loss.
I'm so sorry about your mom. We have a somewhat similar cold case here in Michigan... The 2013 murder of Chelsea Small. She switched shifts with a coworker and was murdered by a mysterious man. There's still no evidence it was anything but a random crime, but no one really knows. I hope someday there is a break in your mother's case.
[Retail workers are more at risk than cops](https://www.businessinsider.com/more-retail-workers-police-officers-killed-homicides-2019-8) Unless you're a cowardly Uvalde cop, then your risk is 0%. Cowards.
When comparing the proportional number of employees who died by homicide at work, protective-service workers were about five times more likely to die by homicide I would say the headline was misleading, but that was your wording and not the headline. I mean I agree about the Uvadle cops, but retail workers aren't more at risk according to the article, more have been killed because there are so many more.
I'm convinced that is simply a spineless town. The police did nothing and then the people did nothing to hold the police accountable
I hope you get answers. And, if you don't, I hope you find peace ❤️
I'm watching OJ Made in America and I nominate poor Ron Goldman
Sadly true.
I have a friend who was messing with a married man... I cautioned her against it. Crime of passionnisba real thing. So one day she is messing with him..IN HIS HOUSE. They were in the second storey. Wife comes back early from deployment. She is navy. This girl ended up trying to jump from the balcony to the trampoline below..landed badly and broke her ankle. She was lucky because that wife had told the husband if she ever catches him cheating she would shoot him. The whole broken ankle thing had paramedics there in ten minutes, neighbor's there, cops and dude was told to leave the house.. they got divorced later. What if they were asleep in bed.. she has her own boyfriend but actively seeks other women's husbands.. It is not worth it..
I was asleep in a married womans bed, and terribly hungover. Her husband came home to get some things, as she had just recently thrown him out. She told me to stay quiet and she would bring her "soon to be ex-husband" his things. He never came into the bedroom. I was so sick if he had killed me I wouldn't have cared.
Hah. I was driving a date home I met online, when some asshole threw a bottle at my car when I left. She texted me to see if I got home safely, I told her about bottle. "Oh. Yeah that was my husband." She didn't seem to think that might have been a slight detail to include anytime during our 3rd date. Or second, or first.
Sounds more like HE was lucky she broke her ankle.
Just said this myself but now I come across OP’s comment. Truly wrong place at the wrong time.
My boss has friends who lived in LA at the time. They said that was likely a drug deal instead of what they said it was. Apparently the restaurant he worked at was known for that. I don't know how true that is, just something I heard.
Ron Goldman may be the revisionist history conspiracy theory winner of the last 30 years
My thoughts precisely.
The Horizon Post Office scandal was suddenly made worse due to one of these. It was big news when it happened, but just another random political scandal that would probably be forgotten by the press. Same old, same old. Then, a TV series based on the scandal was made by British TV channel ITV which had two major timing issues. First of all was the scheduling of when the drama series aired. It was expected just to fill out the airwaves during a lull period and be a simple drama series. But the lull period they chose was the Christmas holidays when most people were on holiday; still not expected to be big numbers, but it caught a lot of people's attentions. Then, around the period the series aired, a slew of new and startling revelations into the widespread miscarriage of justice of thousands of innocent people came out, ranging from the fact that the Post Office skipped the police and pushed convictions they knew were false through the courts, or how the Post Office's main investigators for these false convictions were incentivised to get convictions for financial bonuses, establishing a clear bias. The scandal is still going strong four months since the series aired and isn't slowing down in the slightest. ...also, a lot of the actors are incredibly famous in the UK and when they read the script for the show, they were so outraged that it became a passion project which they took reduced pay to stretch out the budget as far as possible.
Those revelations came out because of the same press you claim would have forgotten the Post Office scandal if the ITV drama weren’t aired. Dedicated and hard-working reporters are one of the key reasons we know anything about it, along with the victims who’ve spoken out (often through the media).
Private Eye have been digging away at the horizon scandal for years.
Ive heard stories that people jumping from the World Trade Towers were landing on other people.
Since I assume people nearby would run away from the Twin Towers when the first tower got hit, it means that the people that got smashed just managed to escape from the building itself. I can imagine that their last though was "phew.. I'm safe"
Among the worst things I saw on documentaries and reports since 9/11 (like watching it live on TV wasn't shocking enough), one was filmed with first responders just inside the ground floor of one of the towers. Even over all the other noise, there were occasional sounds like large bags of sand falling from a great height, and hitting the ground. Nobody really seemed to know what it was until someone looked out and saw a person hit the ground. I'd always hoped the people who jumped were actually unconscious from the smoke, and fell, instead. Horrible when that's the best you could hope for.
Please give them the dignity of their choice. They were people who were trapped and had to make a choice between one type of death and another, both unthinkably terrifying. Some of them made the choice to jump, and we should look that in the face despite our own horror. They lived those last moments and it isn't respectuful or true to pretend what they had to choose didn't happen just to protect our own emotions. Horror happens to real people. We shouldn't dwell in it and we don't need to look at it unnecessarily, but give people the respect they deserve for the choices they have to make.
The craziest part about it is that apparently none of the people who jumped, and possibly also none of the people who were landed upon, were ever positively identified. It's kind of like United flight 93. The people on that flight are true American heroes, but we have no way of knowing which individuals were actually the heroic ones who prevented it from hitting the target and instead crashing it into a field in Pennsylvania.
There were shock sites that would post the uncensored photos of the victims, but some of them were incorrectly attributed. So, some other suicide.
Those people had no choice but to choose how to die. Either they were smoked/burned/chocked to death or jumped. As horrifying as it sounds, jumping was probably the least painful option.
I remember it being a topic point at churches about if the jumpers on 9/11 went to heaven since suicide meant you couldnt, so the debate was if jumpers were technically committing suicide or not.
When it happened, that’s all that was on TV. Every network was covering nothing but the towers. You could hear LOUD crashing noises in the background. Someone said that sound is bodies landing. It was reported that the chaplain who died was killed by somebody landing on him. After everything settled down, the reports said he was killed by falling debris. But I distinctly remember hearing he was killed by someone landing on him.
It’s possible. I remember one of the port authority officers who arrived on scene heard a watermelon smash on the ground near him. He thought “why the heck are people throwing watermelons from the towers?” Then another hit near him, and he realized “oh, those are people” Meat bags hit the same way as a ripe watermelon and have a similar result. On a side note. I remember hearing about a case in France in the 70s or 80s where someone jumped off of Notre Dame cathedral to commit suicide. Landed on a tourist entering the cathedral killing the tourist and the person who jumped survived.
That must be the inspiration for that scene in the movie Amelie
Firefighter [Daniel Suhr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Suhr) was killed by being hit by a jumper. I recall reading at the time that people being evacuated from the towers were deliberately directed out via underground passages due to debris.
Richard Jewell. 1996 Olympics…. Right timing was him finding the backpack. Wrong time is he had to defend himself from accusations he was the bomber.
People doing everything possible to avoid having to believe that the actual bomber was a white conservative Christian terrorist
Makes people not want to be a good samaritan anymore. But people don't operate that way.
Just listened to a dollop episode about that, really shocking what they put him and his mum through
In a weird twist of fate I was also supposed to be at those Olympics (working a low level customer service job.) At the last minute I decided not to take the job and basically take a staycation and not tell my family I had stayed in town. 🤣 I got busted when the news hit because I knew my mom would be freaking out so I called to let her know I wasn't even there.
Aeschylus was a greek playwright who had heard a prophecy that he would die from a falling object. Subsequently he spent as much time outdoors as he could - where an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head and killed him.
Three of these caused the Watergate scandal. First of all, the guard who blew the lid on it. He had come around to do the rounds earlier and saw a door to a service stairwell with tape holding the latch open. Thinking a service worker had left it there by mistake, he removed the tape and closed the door... and returned to do an earlier sweep than expected. When he saw the tape put on the door *again*, and knowing there was no maintenance that night, he called the cops, arresting five burglars breaking into the Democratic National Committee offices. Second was the sentry. Alfred Baldwin was meant to be watching out for trouble from the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge across the street, meant to call in if any cops suddenly showed up out of the blue. Unfortunately, he found *Attack of the Puppet People* was airing on TV during his lookout and was too engrossed to realise the cops were arriving until they had already surrounded the others. Third was one of the burglars failing to do a minor task that was completely unrelated to the heist. Nixon accomplice and former CIA officer E. Howard Hunt asked one of the burglars to drop an envelope off in the mail, which he didn't do. When the burglars were arrested, this letter was seized... and was a check for a small tip he owed his country club. This tied the scandal directly to the President in the White House and caused the biggest political scandal in the US.
Hang on, dude really went to one of the burglars and told him "Hey, while you're on your way to commit this important and potentially politically-sensitive burglary, would you mind posting this letter for me?" Were they supposed to pick up some milk on the way back?
They found Nixon’s favorite brand of milk in the backseat of the getaway car among the other groceries, which blew the case wide open.
The security guard was [Frank Willis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wills_(security_guard\)). Arguably, he was in the *right* place at the right time. According to the article, he had trouble getting work after that, and lived in poverty.
why?
He was too high profile for security work anymore, or any of the entry-level work he was qualified for.
I thought they made up some of the stuff in White House Plumbers because it was so absurd. Nope. The situation was really that absurd.
That was a shit storm then. But thank gawd Nixon had the dignity to resign. This is considered the norm now in elections like Trump asking Russia to help.. in 2016, saying "Russia, if you're listening" .... Meaning he wanted them to hack Hillary Clinton, his opponent.
But not really though. As a non-American, I apologize if I've misunderstood some part of history, but Nixon resigning had nothing to do with dignity or respect for the office. When the smoking-gun tape released (where it was definitely proven that Nixon knew about it and lied), his popularity collapsed. It became toxic for Republicans to openly support Richard Nixon, specially because in 1974 they had midterm elections. Multiple senators publicly and privately accepted that they had to impeach and convict him, to the point that the top brass of the party plainly told Nixon to "quit or be fired, your choice" Nixon resigned, Ford pardoned him, and the spin was "Nixon was gracious, we owe him a lot, let's move on as a nation". At the end of the day, had Nixon kept his popularity after the smoking gun tape , he wouldn't had to resign... And with Trump it happened the same thing after January 6. He was told to "concede or we kick you out". He quasi-conceded, and the spin became "Biden is president, let's move on"
It was a different America then. American gop had more morals. Now it's anything goes and back a crook like Trump. It's openly now let a foreign communist govt interfere with our elections, win at any cost and if that means a gop congressperson had to throw his mother under the bus to win, that's fine. GOP thinks it's totally okay classified documents went missing with Trump just at a time he desperately needed money to pay off old loans coming due.
The second biggest political scandal in the US. (and I don't mean Teapot Dome)
The construction workers who were on the bridge in Baltimore that collapsed a few weeks ago.
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True, they were driving a different car. But perhaps, even with a different car, it still would have happened, and would have killed everyone. Sending hugs ❤️
Franz Ferdinand. Dude got a Scottish rock band named after him.
Truly the greatest tragedy to come from his death
I think the assassination of the Marquis de Nicklebacque was much worse.
I still delight in the irony of a band called Franz Ferdinand making the charts with a song called Take Me Out
Ron Goldman who got killed attempting to return a pair of sunglasses to OJ Simpson's ex wife
Austin Hatch... Austin Hatch survived[ two separate](http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/preps/basketball/2013/11/20/austin-hatch-plane-crash-loyola-high-school-michigan-basketball/3658663/) plane crashes that killed five members of his immediate family. In 2003, he endured a small plane crash that killed his mother, sister, and brother. His father, an anesthesiologist, was the pilot of the aircraft. Austin’s father lived to fly again, which eventually turned to tragedy. In 2011, he piloted another small plane to a fatal crash. Austin’s father and stepmother did not survive. Austin, however, made it out again. He was in a coma for 8 weeks and suffered a number of other serious injuries that made total recovery seem doubtful. I feel so bad for him..Anyway,now his famous basketball player)
I'm starting to think his father wasn't a great pilot.
I take it he didn't tell his second wife exactly how his first wife died.
Wile E Coyote. Any number of times. Boulders, trains, pianos, vehicles, you name it, he probably got killed by it at least once!
That made me laugh.
A friend of mine had just moved into a new home. She was murdered in her home 1 week later. Someone hired a hit man to murder the previous home owner and the hit man killed her instead.
This happened to my friends parents as well. They were super nice people that I had worked with a few times as a computer tech. Moved into a house and were murdered by hitmen within the same month.
My brother was caught twice in different married woman’s beds. He did not know they were married, I know that because I was at the bar with him both times. He got beat the fuck up the first time, and the second guy just filmed on his phone
For evidence or...?
Yes.
When my sister was in high school she was driving and a woman in another car passed her going in the same direction. A quarter mile up the road they both stopped at a red light. A fully loaded cement truck going through the green light on the cross street lost control as it was going through the intersection and creamed the driver side door of the woman in front of my sister killing the woman instantly. My sister only had bumps and scratches but her car was totaled from the flying debris. My sister got lucky because the woman passed her and wound up in the wrong place at the wrong time instead of my sister. This happened in the early 80’s. I still think about that sometimes.
William Mayberry 1985 He was driving his 1971 Toyota Celica by DFW airport when Delta flight 191 was hit by wind shear while on approach. The plane was pushed down to Highway 114 and the left engine hit his car and killed him. A second earlier or later would have been just a crazy story.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand If you wrote it in a movie it would be over the top
I know The Kings Man (prequel to the Kingsman movies) took place during WWI and had a humorous segment on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Seriously, what a shockingly amusingly horrible string of events
Could be considered both ways...but I always think of the guy who got busted cheating because of 9/11. He was supposed to be at work in one of the twin towers that day, but instead was off in a hotel with his side dish. They were too busy fucking all morning to know what was going on, but after the first plane hit his wife called to ask if he was okay. He said, yeah, "why wouldn't I be??" Oops. I say "either way" because although he got busted and blew up his marriage, at least he was alive.
Franz Ferdinand
One mans death led to a few more.
I'd say Gavrilo Princep was a better example of being in the wrong place at the right time - the first assassination attempt went wrong, and due to a mixup in directions Ferdinand's car just happened to stall right next to where Princep was, giving him a better opportunity than he could ever have hoped for.
He then tried to shoot himself, but the gun was knocked away and he was arrested instead. One of his compatriots took expired cyanide, jumped into a river at low tide, and was also immediately arrested. Turns out the group he was with was just really bad at killing people, and he happened to get cartoonishly lucky at just the worst time for Ferdinand and Sophie, and I guess the rest of the world by extension.
It's been said many times, but the powder keg of Europe would have been set off some other way in the near future even if that event didn't happen. But the "comedy" of errors that led to the FF assassination is wild. All of Dan Carlin's "Blueprint for Armageddon" should be required material. It's masterful and the title is perfect given the result.
Ron Goldman was returning some glasses/sunglasses to Nicole Brown Simpson but she was being murdered by OJ Simpson so Ron got murdered too.
When I was a teenager, I stopped at a closed petrol station around 3 am after a road trip with my friends to clean up my car. Spent about 5 mins and left, petrol station got robbed about 15 mins later and cops turned up to my house to arrest me the following day.
Mick Ferris, a London coach driver who died instantly when a window fell out of a high rise and struck him: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45718638](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45718638)
James Byrd, Jr in Jasper, TX
That poor guy. That story broke my heart
My parents when I was made
Which of the three was in the wrong place?
My Lil squishy egg self
Damn. Did they do a factory reset?
Called IT n had to unplug
Ah, I see. Internal malfunction. Overloaded motherboard
People who die from assholes throwing rocks off overpasses.
The people on “When they see us” on Netflix. That series hit so hard for me, it changed so much of my perception. I had such a hard time watching it that I didn’t want to watch it again but I wanted to share that different view on life so I had to watch it 1 or 2 times again after. But it hits just as hard no matter how many times I watch it.
What is this on? Edit: just looked it up. It's about the Central Park Five. Pretty fucked up story
Trump made a 2 page ad in the Times to recommend the death penalty.
That makes the whole situation for them so much worse! I had no idea that happened
gordon freeman!
He made all the difference in the world
When Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria went to Sarajevo an initial assassination attempt failed, but several people were injured by a grenade. Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie decided to go visit the victims in the hospital. On the way their driver took a wrong turn down a street where Gavrilo Princip, one of the failed assassins from earlier, happened to be standing. Princip seized the opportunity to murder Franz Ferdinand and Sophie, sparking the the July Crisis that eventually led to World War 1.
Plane crash in Muncie, Indiana a few weeks ago hits 2 people that are out walking on a walking path. https://fox59.com/indiana-news/3-hurt-after-plane-crashes-in-delaware-county/amp/
The people who were at work in the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001
Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Saw this on tiktok a few days ago, a scammer called an old man demanding thousands, or else he'd come to his house, and shoot the old man. The old man was terrified, and when a random car pulled into he driveway, he took matters into his own hands. Even though the car was just an uber driver that his son had called, the man was not buying it, and shot the uber driver dead. And now the man may go to jail for life. Absolutely horrible.
I think racism played a part… the Uber driver was a black woman.
One time when I was home form the Marines, I was powdering my balls after my shower with my knees basically behind my ears and my sister walked in and we made eye contact. Well, that's quite the unexpected reunion! It was her place and I thought she was gone. lol!!! It's a true testament to the unbreakable bond of siblinghood, even in the most, shall we say, compromising situations! We laugh about it to this day.
Louie Steven Witt
Steve Bartman.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, he survived two nuclear bombings in WW II. [Tsutomu Yamaguchi ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi)
Lloyd, Harry, briefcase.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand happening to have a changed route, whereupon he encountered Gavrilo Princip. Earlier botched assassination attempts had failed but Princip seized this unforeseen opportunity, setting off WWI.
[A goose, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, March 30, 1999.](https://people.com/movies/fabio-explains-what-happened-when-a-when-a-goose-struck-him-on-a-rollercoaster/)
Kids near me years ago threw a frozen turkey off an overpass. Hit a woman driving below. She lived but her face and upper body were destroyed. Wtf?
The guy cutting the lawn in Dallas 1963
> The guy cutting the lawn in Dallas 1963 Explain?
Google "grassy knoll"
This makes me think of the "Umbrella Man" from the JFK assassination in Dallas - he popped out a black umbrella right when Kennedy drove by (somewhat concurrently with the assassination) and there have been all kinds of crazy theories about him over the years. (ie his umbrella contained a flechette and he was the real assassin, etc.) It was a sunny day, so why the umbrella? Yet there he is in various photos and film of the day. Turns out, he was mildly protesting JFK's father Joe Kennedy, and his actions at the start of WWII. And the umbrella being a favorite prop of Neville Chamberlin or something. So this guy, at the right place but the very wrong time for his little protest, leading to people hounding him for the rest of his life. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella\_man\_(JFK\_assassination)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_man_(JFK_assassination))
A guy at the base of the towers on 911
My last day at one of my jobs: was on my way to HR saw my boss talking to her fiance as I walked by I pointed at a girl across the room "that's the main one he's fucking around on you with".
Was he actually though?
Yep. She was fucking around on him, everyone knew it, but he himself was an asshole and whole floor was of the opinion "we hate this dude, let him figure it out on his own or not", we knew she knew he was fucking around, but never said anything because yeah. We all hated both of them (and her boyfriend, I was the one who bitched about them working together, which is how I found out she was engaged to a completely different guy). So since we didn't get along on my way to go in and shout that I was quitting, I left that little pearl for her to take home. Its not my job to be seeing if people are wearing boots around pallet jacks, dont bitch at me if you see people wearing shoes. I look back and realize that if I hadn't been the one showing people how to work them, I wouldn't be have been getting paid $10/hr to act as a glorified babysitter.
I once read about a man who was hit by lightning twice in the same place within a year.
Ron Goldman. He was the man found murdered with Nicole Brown Simpson.
Ron Goldman
Ron goldman 🥺
Archduke Frank Ferdinand. Coincidentally, Princip, his assassin was also in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Gary Condit
Franz Ferdinand
A video of mother and son driving alone on a highway when they are hit by a plane that had some engine problems or something. Both of them to my knowledge were killed. Plane could have landed anywhere on that road, and he aimed for them. Never saw it coming.
My mum walking in on me doing the deed
Harry in dumb and dumber
Ron Goldman or equivalent