Incredible luck stories
In the fates of individual people, it happens that incredible cases of luck can be traced, as if marked with the seal of luck.
The famous saying “the bullet won't take him” more than fits 53-year-old Fred Carmen from Detroit, America, a jewelry salesman. He was walking towards his car carrying $ 250,000 in proceeds when he was attacked by an armed robber. By all the laws of ballistics and anatomy, Fred's brains should fly in all directions. But the victim was incredibly lucky: at the moment of the shot, Fred opened his mouth in fright. Doctors were shocked when X-rays saw a bullet lying quietly in his stomach. By some incredible coincidence, the bullet bounced off the sinuses and into the stomach through the throat, without causing any particular harm to the victim who had involuntarily swallowed it.
The same amazing luck fell on the lot of 20-year-old Charlotte Gibb from England. She and her friend hitchhiked in Israel. The driver of the next ride turned out to be a dangerous criminal and shot the tourists with a pistol. 22-year-old Max died on the spot, but Charlotte managed to escape. By a lucky chance, a bullet hit her in the head behind her right ear and exited directly under her left eye, but did not damage any vital organs. A couple of centimeters taller - and the girl would go blind. A couple of centimeters to the side - death would be inevitable. Charlotte recovered after a few weeks.
36-year-old Englishman Andrew Billingum is another survivor of a unique shot. As a child, his friend hit Andrew in the nose with a blowgun. “All this time, I thought the bullet went through the cheek,” Andrew said. - But not so long ago, a dentist, looking at X-rays, asked what kind of pin I had in my nose. It turns out that the bullet has been sticking out there for all these years. My nose never hurt, and if it hadn't been for a visit to the dentist, I would never have learned anything …”.
And here are some cases like "fell but did not crash." Thus, a pregnant journalist Lia Pacetti from Turin, Italy, as reported by her colleague by profession Carlo Scarotti, fell out of … a helicopter, but after spending 300 meters in free fall, not only remained practically unharmed, but two hours later gave birth to a healthy boy! After all, what a photojournalist will not do for a good picture! So the 26-year-old journalist was so carried away by the panorama of the city that she leaned out of the open hatch very strongly.
“At this time, the helicopter suddenly got into a zone of turbulence. Simply put, a couple of times we were blown by air currents, - said the pilot Dino Cazzeri. - The passenger was in the last months of pregnancy and, of course, did not keep her balance well. And besides, in violation of the rules and my warnings, she slowly unfastened her seat belts - you see, they interfered with her …”.
“Falling down like a stone, I was convinced that everything was lost,” recalls Leah. “And I only thought that now my child will never be born.”
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The careless journalist was saved by a truly incredible accident. She could fall on the roof of a tall building, or she could fly past - on the asphalt: Leah fell very close to the wall and landed on the canvas awning of the 14th floor, which protected the windows from the sun. This dampened the speed of the fall and softened the blow. Then she continued her terrible way - from the canopy to the canopy, lower and lower.
Here is the testimony of 66-year-old Luciano Galardi, who witnessed the last seconds of the journalist's fall: “I was standing in the street and suddenly heard the crack of tearing fabric. I raised my head and saw a woman - she was falling, breaking through the stretched sun awnings with her body. It lasted a few seconds, and then she flopped to the ground. Well, not quite down to earth. The poor fellow was not lucky ….
The poor man was not Leah, but a bystander. She made a "soft landing" directly on the head of a certain Guillermo Villa. According to the police, Villa died on the spot, but no one regretted it: after all, he was an inveterate bastard, a drug dealer, so everyone in the area breathed a sigh of relief.
Leah herself was immediately taken to the hospital. The dumbfounded doctors did not find any damage to her. A few bruises and abrasions, of course, don't count. And her husband Antonio, who ran to the clinic, found there not only a living and healthy wife, but also a charming baby, whom Leah managed to give birth to after falling - a little prematurely, but quite well …
In fact, you can fall and break bones out of the blue, which, unfortunately, happens most often. But to fly 60 meters vertically, fall on the cobblestones and not crash - such luck is given to few. This is how the 12-year-old John Trinhove fell, escaping only with minor cuts, abrasions and bruises. This was announced by journalist Fredy Rotchell.
John and his father climbed one of the peaks of the Magalisberg mountain range, located east of Pretoria (South Africa). As if it were a sin, they neglected the safety cables, and this almost led to terrible consequences. “In the beginning, everything went well,” John said. “We made it safely almost to the top. But suddenly I suddenly stumbled and flew down. At the time of the fall, I tried to catch my hands on stones and tree trunks, but nothing worked for me."
The boy flew 60 meters and crashed onto the cobblestones in the gorge. But he was simply incredibly lucky - the boy remained intact. “I immediately called an ambulance helicopter on the radio, and he quickly took my son to the hospital,” says the boy's father. - There they put 11 stitches and made some dressings. However, the doctor assured that Johnny will be able to return home soon. And so it happened. The very next day Trinhove Jr. appeared at home - happy and radiant. And a couple of days later I went to school as if nothing had happened.
Only a writer can understand the whole tragedy of the situation when, by an unfortunate coincidence of circumstances, a single copy of a manuscript or even a part of it disappears - how many examples of this! And how happy the authors were when the missing miracle was found! One such incredible case was reported by the famous French astronomer and researcher of the unknown K. Flammarion in his book. Here's what he writes:
“While I was writing my great essay on the atmosphere and was just compiling a chapter on wind strength, where I gave interesting examples, the following happened. My office in Paris has three windows. It was summer. The first window overlooking the chestnut alley was open. Suddenly the sky was clouded over with clouds, a whirlwind arose, which threw open the ill-concealed third window and stirred up all the papers on my desk; by the way, the wind carries away the leaves I have just written, and they fly like a whirlwind over the trees. A minute later it started pouring rain. Going downstairs to look for the leaves that had flown away seemed to me to be a waste of work, and I put an end to them. What was my amazement when, a few days later, I received from Lagur's printing house, which was a good kilometer from my apartment, an imprint of this very chapter, in full, without the slightest omission!Please note that it was about the curious tricks of the wind that was interpreted in it. So what happened? The thing is very simple.
A messenger from the printing house, who lived in the Observatory quarter and brought me proofs, went home for a bite to eat and on the way back saw the soiled, worn-out sheets of my manuscript on the ground. He thought that he himself had lost them, so he tried to pick them up as carefully as possible and took them to the printing house, of course, not intending to brag about his deed. Indeed, as if the wind itself took care of bringing the sheets to the printing house! (Flammarion K. Unknown. S.-Pb., 1901) - Flammarion ends his story.
Some of the lucky coincidences, for all their "pettiness", are nevertheless just as surprising. For example, Colin Wilson, an English writer who has written dozens of books about the unknown and the unknown, in the preface to one of them told about such a strange case: “Once, when I was looking for the quotes I needed, a book fell from the shelf, opening exactly on the very page where they were contained "(Wilson K. Occultism. London, 1971.). He probably really needed this information!
But the serviceman Yuri Nikolaev from Saransk, called up together with other soldiers to help the Moscow firefighters in their difficult work, after 10 days of service in a new capacity managed to catch an 8-year-old baby on the fly. This is what Olga Nezvanova told about this incredible case: “The message arrived at night, at 1 h 57 min. The apartment caught fire. Three fire engines, pushing cars to the side of the road with a lingering howl of sirens, rushed to the scene of the tragedy. Yuri noticed the culprit apartment on the second floor immediately - by the bright reflections of the flame in the windows. But thick, dirty-gray smoke was already in full swing at the entrance. Even inexperienced Nikolaev understood: the tenants should be evacuated immediately. There is nothing to say about professional firefighters: they quickly unrolled a three-knee staircase, put it to a brick five-story building and began to lower the fire victims.
Standing below for safety net, Yuri carefully watched his partner Alexei Soloviev. He carefully descended from the fourth floor window with an 8-year-old girl in his arms. The frost was severe, and the icy metal steps made the descent difficult. At about the level of the second floor, Alexei suddenly slipped, could not resist and … fell down. Yuri only managed to gasp when he saw the child and his comrade flying at him. He didn’t have time to think anything, he simply stretched out his hands and, fortunately, caught the distraught girl.
An experienced firefighter knows that holding even a small child falling from a height is almost impossible. If someone else had been in Yuri's place, the tragedy would have been inevitable. And Nikolaev is a guy of downright heroic build: under two meters in height, weighing almost 100 kg. Peasantly tightly knocked down. In general, he is not offended by force. Needless to say, the little one was lucky, because she got off only with the impressions of the flight. Perhaps, - O. Nezvanova concludes her story, - someday the girl will remember with gratitude the one whom she did not remember by sight. Well, Yuri Nikolaev will bring home, to his native Saransk, a short story from his army life."
A story, let's add on our own, whose price is the saved life of a child.
N. Nepomniachtchi