These are the luckiest people in the world!
Some people really are favored by fortune.
If you’ve achieved your dream of owning a shiny new sports car, the last thing you
want is for a truck to crash into it.
Thankfully this guy was around at just the right time.
It’s really not easy working in a kitchen.
Accidents are bound to happen, but they become tragedies if a whole pizza’s dropped.
What you really need is someone like this guy to step in and save the day as though
nothing ever happened.
The last thing you need when you’re working out is for your equipment to break.
Had he been in the wrong position at the wrong time, things could’ve gone sour.
But in this case, the timing was just right.
Even the simplest technology is out to get us.
This garage door didn’t want to go down.
So the worker tried to force it… and let's just say things didn’t exactly go to plan.
That was close, but not close enough.
It’s easy for things to go wrong when you’re skiing.
What’s not easy is walking away from your mistake looking as cool as this person did.
Sure he plowed straight into the snow mound, but then there was the front roll and the
march through to seal the deal.
It seems as if there are two ways to win a game of Jenga.
You either play carefully, so you don’t make any mistakes.
Or you use this guy’s method - just do something insane and hope for the best.
It’s very impressive, but it shouldn’t have worked.
I have no idea what job it is they have, but one thing I do know is that the guy in the
front is in the wrong profession.
Water’s clearly more powerful than he originally thought.
I’ll bet he won’t be making that mistake ever again .
This guy could’ve taken an unexpected dip in the lake.
But instead he pulled off an impossible save and actually came out of it looking cooler
than he did to start off with.
We all know the iconic bullet-dodging scene from the Matrix - but that’s just fiction
right?
It couldn’t happen in real life.
Well I believed that, until I saw this happen.
That was close!
Did you know bowling balls could split in half?
Me neither.
But despite his misfortune, he still managed to get his strike in the end.
There’s a fine line between great stunts and horrible accidents.
This snowboarder found that out the hard way.
I’m not sure whether to call that the trick of the century or the world's luckiest landing.
This rapper was lucky enough to be on a stage when this magical moment happened to him.
At least he had the option to keep his hat the second time round.
This may be the only time anyone ever dropped something and felt happy about it.
That could’ve been the end for that phone, but instead it was given a second chance in
the luckiest way possible.
Ping pong can get pretty competitive.
But there’s not much you can do when you’ve got a broken arm.
Just one well placed ball whizzing off the edge of the table and you’re done for.
Or you could just pull off an amazing trick shot like this.
He doesn’t even blink!
We all know that to avoid being eaten by an animal, sometimes it’s best to stay still
and calm, and other times you should run.
But as this man demonstrates, you never know which one it is until you really need it.
Lucky for him, the shark wasn’t really interested, so we’ll never know.
You wouldn’t think scraping ice off a sidewalk would be a very dangerous job.
But that’s because you don’t live in Russia.
Things seem to function differently over there and this is the perfect example of that.
Some people take their jobs more seriously than others.
Anyone else would’ve dropped this box on the floor and left it there.
Not this woman.
She’s better than that, and has the skills to back up her dedication.
Sometimes mother nature lets us know things in ways he could’ve never imagined.
Just make sure you pay attention to the first warning because the second usually isn't as
kind.
These Chinese bridges are designed to terrify people by making them feel like they could
fall through.
But they’re actually perfectly safe right?
Well… yes, until the safety cord slips off the harness.
This guy had a seriously lucky escape.
When you hear the phrase perfect timing, this isn’t usually what you picture.
But you can’t deny that’s exactly what you got.
Neither of them knew what they were about to get themselves into, and honestly let's
just keep it that way.
Any normal person would be mopping up the floor if this were to happen to them.
Luckily for her, her rapid reflexes kicked in at just the right time to avoid that from
happening.
How do you check if it’s safe to ski down a frozen river?
I don’t have an answer, but I do know this isn’t the right way.
This person found that they were being reckless, but it was very nearly too late.
At least they made it.
I just don’t know how.
It doesn’t matter how many times you practice something, it’s bound to go wrong eventually.
But you better hope that when that time comes,
you have as much luck as this guy.
Not even the movies have happy endings like that.
It must be exhilarating to stand at the stop of a snow covered mountain.
It must be even more exciting when you almost create your own personal avalanche to get
caught in.
Well, terrifying first, then exciting when you realize you’re still standing.
Here’s a kid discovering he has a unique talent.
I don’t know what else to call it.
Nobody else could pull off a shot like that.
But he doesn’t just do it once.
He pulls it off again with the very next ball.
He seems just as shocked as everyone else.
This guy was happy about his baseball skills and decided to end his batting with a flourish.
But his full potential was revealed by mistake - when the bat amazingly came to a standstill
on its head.
Then again, maybe it was just a fluke.
Ever walked through a store without knowing what you need?
I guess the decision was made a little easier for this guy.
For the record, I don’t know why there were live fish in the supermarket in the first
place.
Getting the ball between your opponents legs in football is one thing, getting it between
four is impossible.
I guess it was impossible, not anymore.
You could say that Zeb Powell was pretty unlucky when he lost his balance in front of a huge
crowd at the X games.
He probably never makes mistakes like that when he’s alone.
But he turned his luck on its head by pulling off this amazing recovery.
It always pays to be aware of your surroundings.
If this man was watching the game, he’d have noticed the ball racing toward him.
Even without that, he should’ve at least spotted the crowd of people around him ducking
for cover, that was close.
This guy definitely didn’t think he could save those crates, and he sure didn’t know
he could do it in style.
Unfortunately, I doubt he could do it again.
This man was struggling so his friend threw him a safety rope.
Neither of them had any idea that the rope was about to become a vital lifeline.
This guy was trying to show off a trick shot that would’ve been pretty impressive, if
he’d got it right on his own.
Most people need incredible skills to make that one in a million shot.
But that’s not always true.
This kid clearly wasn’t aiming well - he misses the goal by a mile.
But he was accidentally right on target for a much more difficult shot.
He couldn’t have done it if he’d tried.
I’m not too sure who the lucky one is here - the guy who wiped out on his board, or the
girls he nearly crashed his board into.
What even were the chances of their steps lining up so perfectly like that.
Nearly everyone’s bucket list features some kind of wildlife encounter - but be careful
what you wish for.
This man didn’t even know he needed to worry when he suddenly found himself very nearly
inside the mouth of a great white.
This is a whole new form of shark cage diving that I’m sure he never wanted to try.
This is a very specific type of luck, because it’s amazing but it isn’t actually lucky.
Luck would’ve meant they got the points, but getting the points wouldn’t have been
as amazing as what happened here.
I don’t know what happened to cause this disaster, but I’m glad I’m not the person
who has to clean up the mess.
Sometimes you do things greater than yourself.
This man knows that feeling - he couldn’t have done this if he tried, but it still happened.
Accidents happen - that’s just an unavoidable fact of life.
But it’s how you handle them that counts.
Of course some accidents are worse than others - like this man who lost a ski while in mid
air.
That’s definitely not the ideal moment for that to happen.
But against all odds, he managed to turn his misfortune into an incredible stunt.
When things were about to take a turn for the worse, he acted quickly to make sure that
didn't happen.
I don’t know what's more impressive, his speed or his strength.
Some pastime’s have a little more at stake than others.
But the people who enjoy dangerous sports, also enjoy a tricky stunt or two.
That’s great, because we get to witness moments like this.
If bottle flipping became a sport, this guy would be the first Olympic gold medallist.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t catch a frisbee coming from behind.
But that's only the first step.
The more I watch it, the more impossible it looks.
This kid was certain he’d totally missed his shot - let’s face it, that throw was
way off target.
But the ball had other ideas.
It bounced perfectly off the rails and straight into the basket.
Journalists are always putting themselves into risky situations, but none of them are
like this woman.
I guess she assumes she’s pretty safe since she’s live on the air.
But not this time.
I’ll bet she had no idea how close that helicopter was when she took that little step
to the side.
This singer’s crowd-walking could’ve made him look like a laughing stock if this rogue
cup of beer had landed full in the face, which you can bet was the intention of the person
who threw it.
Instead, everything came together so perfectly for him that he ended up looking more cool
and in control than he was to begin with.
It’s not every day a house falls on top of a car while you’re walking past, but
he didn’t mind.
He stopped for a moment just to make sure he wasn’t caught in the crossfire, then
he just kept on walking without giving it a second thought.
His life must be so easy.