Chances

[Sean]

They say you have one in a million(s) of a chance of winning the lottery, getting hit by lightning etc.

so i figured, surely there must be someone of AF who knows someone? im not sure how many active users there are, but lets say 500 visit this thread. Lets say each one of those people know about 100 people, so thats about 500,000 people.

so what im asking, have you, or anyone that you know, ever had something improbable happen to you/them?

keep it to 1 degree of seperation please, but if no one has any stories then feel free to proceed with crazy friend of a cousin stories.

by the way, my dad was hit by ball lightning.

[KatWoman]

One of my best friends was struck by lightning twice, on 2 separate occasions when he was younger...around 6 or so.

[Toksin]

I knew a guy back in SA who had been, by the time he was 18, hit by 2 cars, 2 minibus taxis, a truck and a bike.

I won a cd on the radio the other night...what makes it improbable was I was talking a to a friend about how much I want the album, when the radiostation called my phone to tell me I won

BTW it was Radiohead - Hail To The Thief

[Pizzle00]

My co-worker who sits across from me was struck by lighting twice.
My grandfather's eye fell out....Twice !

[freakray]

Originally posted by Toksin
I knew a guy back in SA who had been, by the time he was 18, hit by 2 cars, 2 minibus taxis, a truck and a bike.

I won a cd on the radio the other night...what makes it improbable was I was talking a to a friend about how much I want the album, when the radiostation called my phone to tell me I won

BTW it was Radiohead - Hail To The Thief

I can see him for the 2 minibus taxis, the 2 cars and the bike, but not the truck.....

I have won a couple of compo's....weird....

Nearly got struck by lightning, the tree next to me took the hit though....

[Dustin_S]

If you search in Venting...you'll find a thread a posted about a year ago.
The family of someone I know won 2.2 million dollars in the Lottery. Who was this you ask? none other than my EX girlfriend.
My friend Jeremiah Jonathon has been struck by lightning, I think twice.

[207010]

my mates mum had 5 heartattacks in one week i dont know if it is one in a million buts its pretty mad

[NSX-R-SSJ20K]

i heard one in a million chances happen nine times in ten.

Although that was a Terry Pratchett Book......

[Pick]

My father was hit by lightning......

[Dustin_S]

NSX-
TERRY PRATCHETT ROCKS!
He's the monty python of literary humor.

The book in question is Guards, Guards, where two members of the Night Watch are keeping an eye out for a dragon. They estimate the chances that he will appear again at "one in one million and two" (or some other random number like that) because one in a million chances happen nine times out of ten!
Terry Pratchett

[YogsVR4]

9 out of 10 people think the other guy is full of shit.

[NSX-R-SSJ20K]

who's the other guy

[Jay!]

4 out of 5 dentists recommend chewing Trident between meals...

(LOL, if you've seen those commercials... )

I sunk a boat; is that rare?

I think you only need to put about 30 people in a group before the odds say that two will have the same birthday. Never seen the preoof behind that, though...

I need to go get that radiohead album...

[NSX-R-SSJ20K]

2 people in 30 have same birthdate

thats ridiculous

its like 1/365 * 1/365 chance of that happening

[Steel]

47% of all statistics are made up!!

-and my favorite-

5 out of 4 people can't do fractions.