Moments where something happens that feels like it goes beyond stupid dumb luck? (lemmy.world)

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It can be whatever, but has anyone ever experienced a moment or moments that has happened to them that defies one's expectations so wildly that they cannot reasonably define it beyond stupid dumb luck?

I still play this scenario out in my mind years later as I am still somewhat in disbelief that it actually happened and I walked away without any injuries.

I like to joke, saying my guardian angel tripped me at the perfect time.

Scenario describing my event in question:

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I noticed two suspicious individuals and as I past them they started to walk towards me. My response was to shout and make a scene while trying to make distance crossing the road without concern for traffic - road was quiet, early in the morning on a holiday as I was on my way to work.

The suspicious individuals responded by rushing towards me as one produced a knife and prepared it in lunging stance like someone preparing to slam a knife into a board.

I knew I couldn't outrun them, no self-defense training, the best I could come up was extend my left hand out to minimise the target area of my vital organs. I was preparing for the worst and I guess fight or flight was preparing for a last stand fight.

What happened next is that I tripped on the pavement in the middle of the road at the exact same time the guy with the knife lunged.

He went flying over me - in an arc - from the momentum of the lunge with everything of his flying everywhere including his knife, his accomplice rushed into my periphery.

I landed in probably the worst scenario lying on my back, but I tried to keep the attackers in view. I don't know why but the guy - who disarmed himself from the fall - panicked and picked up all his stuff and started running with his accomplice in tow.

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[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Shot myself with a BB gun when I was a kid. Not intentionally. I shot at a tire filled with concrete because I was being an idiot and it didn't occur to me that the BB would ricochet off the tire. I would have shot myself in the face if not for my left middle finger being in exactly the right spot. I still have the scar as a reminder.

Remember kids, BB guns are firearms and firearms deserve respect.

[-] Monster96@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

That's a coincidence. I remember getting shot right in the middle of my forehead with a pellet gun. My friends and I were playing at their house and were shooting pellet guns. I was leaning over a railing in the side of their house looking down to where my friend was shooting at. To this day I don't know how it happened, but I remember the pellet ricocheting straight up to where I was leaning over and hit me directly in the middle of my forehead. But, I don't remember feeling any pain or having a mark. I remember looking up at friends in surprise and that's it. If I had moved my head just a tiny bit further up or to the side, I probably would've lost one of my eyes. That's just one of the many times where I would've gotten a serious injury when I was a kid but somehow, I never did.

[-] JayEchoRay@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That was lucky that you didn't react yeah

Reminds me of when I was in high school playing rugby and I ended up in a position where I was on the ground. As I want to get up, I barely see someone running full speed backwards towards me and in the time I saw them and turned my head to brace I got blunt metal togs slamming against my head.

The outer most tog ended up hitting me just on above my eye on the bone along my eye brow with the other togs going up towards my hair line.

In my case, reacting saved my eye ball

[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

That's some luck you got there.

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