Unlucky People.
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I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we’re talking about the Top 10 Unluckiest people
of all time….
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Okay, unlucky people, here they are!
10 – Man Bitten on the Penis by a Deadly Spider – TWICE!
21 year old Australian Builder, Jordan, was bitten on his penis by a deadly poisonous
red back spider while using the toilet.
The bite caused his manhood to swell as one of the symptoms he suffered of the bite.
These things take time to recover from, however, when he was back working onsite again, he
used the portable toilets and was bitten AGAIN!
That has GOT to hurt.
His stint of bad luck earned him the title of unluckiest man in Australia!
9 – Meet Britain’s Unluckiest Man If that sounds like a Daily Mail headline,
it is because he has been the focus of many national tabloids discussing his ill fortune.
They say a Cat has nine lives, but John Lyne seems to have the lives of two cats!
The British man is in his 60s, and during his time he has been in over 17 accidents!
He has been struck by lightning, run over by a van and a bus, he was hit in the face
by a catapulted rock, which smashed out eight of his teeth, he nearly drowned, he fell down
a man hole, damaging his legs and back, he drunk bleach as a child and fell out of a
tree and broke his arm!
John jokingly vowed never to leave the house again, although he did say he considers himself
lucky to have survived his mishaps.
Urrrrm….
So next up, Erik Norrie gives John Lyne a good run for his money at number 8
Dubbed America’s unluckiest man, Erik has been struck by lightning, bitten by a deadly
rattlesnake, punched by monkey’s ….TWICE and survived a shark attack.
The odds on this kind of misfortune are insane – the chance of being attacked by a shark
alone are 1 in 11.5 million!
Erik need skin grafts to save his damaged leg.
Unlucky or awesome, you decide at number 7 – we have the only known meteorite victim,
Anne Hodges.
Anne was hit by a space rock at her home in Alabama in 1954.
She received a whopping great bruise as the rock tore through her house and hit her on
her hip.
The rock was still warm from burning through the earth’s atmosphere!
Not only did she get hit, the rock started a bitter money battle.
Meteorites are precious things.
First scientists took it to test, then her Landlord tried to claim ownership of it.
In the end she was given it and hoped to sell it, like a man down the road had with a piece
that had hit his property.
She was unable to sell it, suffered a nervous break down and then died in a nursing home
age 52.
Imagine winning the lottery…..then losing the ticket…
well that is exactly what happened to Martyn and Kay Tott at number 6
Martyn and Kay Tott won 3 million pounds on the lottery in 2001….the only problem is,
they accidentally threw away their ticket.
The couple tore their house up looking for the ticket, which contained the same numbers
they played every week.
In the end they contacted Camelot, the lottery officiator, who decided their claim was genuine,
but as they had contacted them outside of the allotted time for lost tickets, they could
not give the pair the winnings.
Gutted.
What is worse, Martyn sought legal action that cost him money, his mind and his wife.
5 - Sara Zelenak Anyone caught up in a terror attack is extremely
unlucky but Sara Zelenak, a 21 year old Australian killed in a terror stabbing in June 2017,
was especially unlucky.
Not only had Sara moved from Australia to England to become an Au Pair – she had narrowly
escaped an attack months before on Westminster bridge and had had tickets to the ill-fated
Ariana Grande Concert in Manchester.
On the evening she was killed, she was not planning on going out.
She was instead supposed to be babysitting, but then the child’s grandmother stepped
in at the last minute, meaning she was able to meet her friends in Borough Market.
Sadly she was stabbed when she became separated from her friends.
4 - Roy Sullivan – struck by lightning seven times.
Roy’s story is an incredible one, but a sad one.
Roy was a Park ranger for most his life in Virginia, in the United States.
Roy was first struck by lightning in a crazy storm in 1942, when he was 30 years old.
He was hiding out from a storm in a fire tower that was struck and ignited, he then escaped
to be struck in the leg.
He was struck AGAIN by lightning in 1969 IN his truck, in 1970 in his front yard, in 1972
in a ranger station, in 1973 he was struck out on patrol in a park, 1976 out in the open
and in 1977 when he was out fishing!
WHAT ON EARTH!
He even said he thought that clouds would often follow him!
His wife was also struck once.
The chance of being hit by lightning are 1 in 10 thousand….but I can’t even calculate
what the odds are of being hit 7 times and surviving.
Apparently one in 22 septillion..
Sadly he killed himself aged 71.
3 Melanie Martinez Melanie may well be one of the unluckiest
women in America.
The Louisiana resident was strongly considering moving after her 5th house was razed by a
storm.
She lost her first house in 1965 during hurricane Betsy, her second in 1985 during hurricane
Juan, then a third was lost to George in 1998 and a fourth lost to Katrina in 2005.
TV show Hideous Houses decided to offer Melanie a house makeover, spending 20 thousand dollars
a gesture of Goodwill to a woman who had lost her home four times over.
Then, just months later, Hurricane Isaac came and destroyed her 5th home along with all
the hard work the TV show had put in.
Luckily she was rescued from the roof of her house with her family and her three dogs.
2 The Flannigan Family Initially considered lucky, 14 year old Steve
was at a neighbours house when Pan Am flight 103 smashed into his house killing his parents
and his sister just four days before Christmas.
The incidents that night when terrorists blew up a bomb on a plane flying over Lockerbie
in Scotland ended up being the demise of the whole family.
Steven’s brother, David had already left home when his family were killed.
Five years almost to the day after the tragedy, David fritted away his compensation money
and died of a drugs overdose in Thailand.
After trying to get his life together, Steven went out for a drink with friends 12 years
after the tragedy and, after the pub, was run over by a train.
Finally the horrors of the Lockerbie Bombings had done with his family.
At number one, this guy was so unlucky, his death came by total bad luck….and it started
a war that killed 75 million people…
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria had a
unfortunate string of luck prior to his death, a lot of his family members died untimely
deaths, including his cousin who committed suicide and his father who died of typhoid.
Ferdinand was in Sarajevo at a tense time and the Black Hand Gang attempted to kill
him by throwing a grenade at his car.
Ferdinand and his wife were unharmed, but were later killed when their driver did a
uturn near a café in which a defeated member of the gang was having a coffee….seizing
his second chance, he shot Ferdinand and his wife …which is very unlucky, but unluckier
still, it later resulted in Austria declaring war on Serbia…..which then led to other
nations declaring war and the beginning of the first ever world war.
SO what tales ! That was the top 10 unluckiest people of all time.
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