Luckiest People In The World

From surviving a decapitation to the skydiver who nearly got taken out by a meteorite Here are 10 of the luckiest people in the world 10 Surviving Final Destination Our first story looks like something that would have happened in a final destination movie At 2 00 PM on a seemingly normal Friday a man was minding his own business driving his BMW SUV when a giant steel beam pierced the windshield of his car 9 4x Lotto Winner Our next lucky person didn't cheat death she cheated the lottery Meet Joan Ginther the woman who won the lottery four times She used a strategy that involved purchasing thousands and thousands of lottery tickets but it ended up paying off for her in the end 8 Plane Crash Survivor Juliane Koepcke is definitely one of the luckiest people on the planet On Christmas Eve 1971 Julianne was flying over the Peruvian rainforest with her mom when their plane was struck by lightning There was a bright flash of light the plane dipped then it began to plummet 7 Cheating Death Twice The Dutch cyclist Maarten de Jonge has cheated death twice He didn't survive falling out of an airplane but he did avoid getting on two airplanes that were destroyed He allegedly changed his flight for both Malaysia Airlines MH17 and Malaysia Airlines MH370 6 17 Days Trapped It's hard to say if the woman in our next story is lucky or simply tough as nails When a garment factory in Dhaka collapsed in 2013 and killed over 1 100 people one teenage girl defied all odds Her name is Reshma Begum and at the time she was a 19-year-old seamstress working in the building 5 The Luckiest Man in the Entire Universe Now it's time to talk about perhaps the luckiest man in the world This guy died came back to life then won the lottery twice That kind of thing just doesn't happen Back in 1999 Bill Morgan was a truck driver in Australia 4 Lightning Heals the Blind In 1980 the unbelievable happened A 62-year-old man named Edwin E Robinson had been blinded in a traumatic accident But after he was struck by lightning in 1980 his vision came back and he could see for the very first time in nine years 3 Surviving a Decapitation It's not every day that somebody survives a decapitation Depending on which way you look at this story this guy is either very lucky or very unfortunate It all started when Brock Meister was born He wasn't breathing and he was experiencing seizures 2 Unexpected Pearl Let's move away from horrifying injuries and take a look at one of the luckiest shoppers ever When Terri Preece went to Tesco to purchase some oysters she had no idea that she would be walking out of the store with a treasure 1 Skydiver and a Meteorite The last story on the list for today is something out of this world And I mean that literally A skydiver in Norway captured the exact moment that a meteorite shot past his head just seconds after he had deployed his parachute

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