Luck & Serendipity
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IamSundog
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I think there's a distinction to be drawn between:
1. an ordinary kind of decision that leads to a really good outcome;
2. a random event that leads to a really good outcome;
3. the situation where one suddenly takes a very unusual or unprecedented action, to one's own surprise, with little or no forethought, that leads to a really good outcome.
Some of the events described above are of the third kind. They give the impression that one is being impelled by an invisible agent seperate from one's self. They might be due to guardian angels or they might just be examples of the subconcious mind taking action that is at odds with what the concious mind would choose.
The question is whether the subconcious mind or mysterious agent knows ahead of time about the good outcome. Maybe it's just taking a course of action that is likely to lead to a good outcome, and we remember the ones that work out as being almost miraculous. Especially in situations where the stakes are high (need a job, need a new relationship).
Does anyone remember feeling impelled to take an unusual, unprecedented sort of action that didn't lead to anything wonderful? Or would that be too much of a buzz-kill?
1. an ordinary kind of decision that leads to a really good outcome;
2. a random event that leads to a really good outcome;
3. the situation where one suddenly takes a very unusual or unprecedented action, to one's own surprise, with little or no forethought, that leads to a really good outcome.
Some of the events described above are of the third kind. They give the impression that one is being impelled by an invisible agent seperate from one's self. They might be due to guardian angels or they might just be examples of the subconcious mind taking action that is at odds with what the concious mind would choose.
The question is whether the subconcious mind or mysterious agent knows ahead of time about the good outcome. Maybe it's just taking a course of action that is likely to lead to a good outcome, and we remember the ones that work out as being almost miraculous. Especially in situations where the stakes are high (need a job, need a new relationship).
Does anyone remember feeling impelled to take an unusual, unprecedented sort of action that didn't lead to anything wonderful? Or would that be too much of a buzz-kill?
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Britain's unluckiest house number
Naphtalia Loderick,
29 Jun, 2012
Do you live in house number 166? If so, you have the dubious accolade of living in Britain’s unluckiest house number.
More home insurance claims have been made by those living at number 166 than any other property.
New research by Confused.com shows that 21.9 per cent of home insurance customers living at number 166 have made a claim in the last five years.
The second most "unlucky" house number is 227, with 21.5 per cent of householders living at this number making a home claim.
However, occupants of number 243 have fared better - they topped last year’s unluckiest house number list, but have now slipped down to position 10.
Unluckiest house numbers by region
In the Scottish Borders door number 7 is unluckiest.
And this more remote area may be considered safer than other parts of the country, with the fewest home insurance claims than any other region at 18.1 per cent.
However, if you’re living in the southern part of the country – such as Portsmouth and Southampton for example – you may want to take extra care protecting your home, particularly if you live at number 60.
This part of the country has the highest number of home insurance claims in Britain - 28 per cent - with house number 60 proving the unluckiest in this region.
In London, people living behind the number 93 have most reason to be worried, with the highest number of home claims over the last five years at 19.2 per cent.
Unluckiest road names
Green Way is Britain’s unluckiest road name, with 27.6 per cent of those living on this road making a claim on their buildings insurance or contents insurance in the last five years.
Hill Road is the country’s second unluckiest road moniker with 23.4 per cent of residents having made home claims in the past five years, and Bradford Avenue ranks third, with 22.9 per cent.
This is followed by Beechwood Avenue, Kingston Road, Cecil Road, Western Avenue, Marsh Lane, Woodside Road and Balmoral Road.
Gareth Lane, home insurance expert at Confused.com, says: "As a person looking to buy a house in the near future I’ll think twice about moving into 166 Green Way!
"Joking aside, if these trends continue, on average more then over 14 per cent of customers are likely to claim on their home insurance in the next five years, with an average claim amount of around £2,000.
"During these hard economic times and extreme weather it’s important to find the right cover at the right price."
http://www.confused.com/home-insurance/ ... n-revealed
Round here, it's unusual for house numbers to get over 100, because even a long continuous stretch of housing often includes several different street names! In the centre of Falmouth, there's High St, Market St, Church St, Arwenack St, etc. I suppose you need big towns with long roads and/or several high-rise apartment blocks to get the house numbers up high.
But any street, however long, presumably starts off with 1 to 50, say, so you'd expect more low numbers in the unluckiest list.
Naphtalia Loderick,
29 Jun, 2012
Do you live in house number 166? If so, you have the dubious accolade of living in Britain’s unluckiest house number.
More home insurance claims have been made by those living at number 166 than any other property.
New research by Confused.com shows that 21.9 per cent of home insurance customers living at number 166 have made a claim in the last five years.
The second most "unlucky" house number is 227, with 21.5 per cent of householders living at this number making a home claim.
However, occupants of number 243 have fared better - they topped last year’s unluckiest house number list, but have now slipped down to position 10.
Unluckiest house numbers by region
In the Scottish Borders door number 7 is unluckiest.
And this more remote area may be considered safer than other parts of the country, with the fewest home insurance claims than any other region at 18.1 per cent.
However, if you’re living in the southern part of the country – such as Portsmouth and Southampton for example – you may want to take extra care protecting your home, particularly if you live at number 60.
This part of the country has the highest number of home insurance claims in Britain - 28 per cent - with house number 60 proving the unluckiest in this region.
In London, people living behind the number 93 have most reason to be worried, with the highest number of home claims over the last five years at 19.2 per cent.
Unluckiest road names
Green Way is Britain’s unluckiest road name, with 27.6 per cent of those living on this road making a claim on their buildings insurance or contents insurance in the last five years.
Hill Road is the country’s second unluckiest road moniker with 23.4 per cent of residents having made home claims in the past five years, and Bradford Avenue ranks third, with 22.9 per cent.
This is followed by Beechwood Avenue, Kingston Road, Cecil Road, Western Avenue, Marsh Lane, Woodside Road and Balmoral Road.
Gareth Lane, home insurance expert at Confused.com, says: "As a person looking to buy a house in the near future I’ll think twice about moving into 166 Green Way!
"Joking aside, if these trends continue, on average more then over 14 per cent of customers are likely to claim on their home insurance in the next five years, with an average claim amount of around £2,000.
"During these hard economic times and extreme weather it’s important to find the right cover at the right price."
http://www.confused.com/home-insurance/ ... n-revealed
Round here, it's unusual for house numbers to get over 100, because even a long continuous stretch of housing often includes several different street names! In the centre of Falmouth, there's High St, Market St, Church St, Arwenack St, etc. I suppose you need big towns with long roads and/or several high-rise apartment blocks to get the house numbers up high.
But any street, however long, presumably starts off with 1 to 50, say, so you'd expect more low numbers in the unluckiest list.
JamesWhitehead
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I was thinking of building a bijou residence on Gareth Lane myself.
It's essentially a piece of advertising copy by the computer-generated Napthalia Loderick aka Dahlia Rectal Pinko, Kill Crania Pothead, Chaplain Liker Toad and the notorious Placenta Hairdo Ilk! :shock:
It's essentially a piece of advertising copy by the computer-generated Napthalia Loderick aka Dahlia Rectal Pinko, Kill Crania Pothead, Chaplain Liker Toad and the notorious Placenta Hairdo Ilk! :shock:
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A lucky digger:
Australian amateur prospector finds massive gold nugget
An amateur prospector in the Australian state of Victoria has astonished experts by unearthing a gold nugget weighing 5.5kg (177 ounces).
The unidentified man, using a handheld metal detector, found the nugget on Wednesday, lying 60cm underground near the town of Ballarat.
Its value has been estimated at more than A$300,000 ($315,000: £197,000).
Local gold experts say gold has been prospected in the area for decades, but no such discovery had been made before.
"I have been a prospector and dealer for two decades, and cannot remember the last time a nugget over 100 ounces (2.8kg) has been found locally," said Cordell Kent, owner of the Ballarat Mining Exchange Gold Shop.
"It's extremely significant as a mineral specimen. We are 162 years into a gold rush and Ballarat is still producing nuggets - it's unheard of."
A video of the Y-shaped nugget was posted on YouTube on Wednesday by user TroyAurum.
He wrote that the man who found it had said it "sounded like the bonnet of a car through the headphones.
"It was lying flat (broad side up) and he carefully dug it up."
Gold currently trades in Australia at about A$1,600 per ounce, meaning the discovery would be worth about A$283,200, but its rarity and the fact it weighs more than a kilogram would add a premium, said Mr Kent.
He told Australian media the prospector had been using a state-of-the-art metal detector, which meant he was able to find the gold relatively deep underground in an area which had been searched many times in the past.
The man had only made small finds before, he said, but was a "person that really deserved it".
"A finding like this gives people hope. It's my dream to find something like that, and I've been prospecting for more than two decades," the Ballarat Courier quoted him as saying.
"I've got no doubt there will be a lot of people who will be very enthusiastic about the goldfields again, it gives people hope," said Mr Kent.
"There's nothing like digging up money, it's good fun." 8)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21055206
Australian amateur prospector finds massive gold nugget
An amateur prospector in the Australian state of Victoria has astonished experts by unearthing a gold nugget weighing 5.5kg (177 ounces).
The unidentified man, using a handheld metal detector, found the nugget on Wednesday, lying 60cm underground near the town of Ballarat.
Its value has been estimated at more than A$300,000 ($315,000: £197,000).
Local gold experts say gold has been prospected in the area for decades, but no such discovery had been made before.
"I have been a prospector and dealer for two decades, and cannot remember the last time a nugget over 100 ounces (2.8kg) has been found locally," said Cordell Kent, owner of the Ballarat Mining Exchange Gold Shop.
"It's extremely significant as a mineral specimen. We are 162 years into a gold rush and Ballarat is still producing nuggets - it's unheard of."
A video of the Y-shaped nugget was posted on YouTube on Wednesday by user TroyAurum.
He wrote that the man who found it had said it "sounded like the bonnet of a car through the headphones.
"It was lying flat (broad side up) and he carefully dug it up."
Gold currently trades in Australia at about A$1,600 per ounce, meaning the discovery would be worth about A$283,200, but its rarity and the fact it weighs more than a kilogram would add a premium, said Mr Kent.
He told Australian media the prospector had been using a state-of-the-art metal detector, which meant he was able to find the gold relatively deep underground in an area which had been searched many times in the past.
The man had only made small finds before, he said, but was a "person that really deserved it".
"A finding like this gives people hope. It's my dream to find something like that, and I've been prospecting for more than two decades," the Ballarat Courier quoted him as saying.
"I've got no doubt there will be a lot of people who will be very enthusiastic about the goldfields again, it gives people hope," said Mr Kent.
"There's nothing like digging up money, it's good fun." 8)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21055206
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London helicopter crash: Crane driver feels 'lucky' he was late
A crane operator who was late for work when a helicopter crashed into the crane he works on said he had overslept and now feels "very lucky".
Nicki Biagioni, 30, of Essex, said his two sons woke him up at 05:00 but on Wednesday they slept an hour later.
Pete Barnes, the pilot, and pedestrian Matthew Wood were killed in the crash in South London.
Up to 40 people, who were asked to leave their central London properties, spent the night away from their homes.
Police said some of the buildings were inaccessible because debris was scattered over a large area including rooftops
more on the link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21055540
A crane operator who was late for work when a helicopter crashed into the crane he works on said he had overslept and now feels "very lucky".
Nicki Biagioni, 30, of Essex, said his two sons woke him up at 05:00 but on Wednesday they slept an hour later.
Pete Barnes, the pilot, and pedestrian Matthew Wood were killed in the crash in South London.
Up to 40 people, who were asked to leave their central London properties, spent the night away from their homes.
Police said some of the buildings were inaccessible because debris was scattered over a large area including rooftops
more on the link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21055540
Spudrick68
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As my wife's eldest says, I've seen Final Destination. I'd be a little concerned if I was him.
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Mr Unlucky survives shark attack
A fisherman who lost a two-pound chunk of his leg to a shark says the ordeal is only his latest encounter with the natural world - after being hit by lightning, bitten by a rattlesnake and punched by monkeys.
By Foreign Staff
7:44AM BST 08 Aug 2013
Erik Norrie, 40, was attacked as he fished off the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas but speaking from his hospital bed said his faith in God had not been shaken, despite the string of unfortunate incidents.
He told a television station in Tampa, Florida, that he felt something at the back of his leg on July 29 as he swam back to the family boat after spearfishing in the ocean.
"As I look back, [the shark] was just finishing his bite and ripping and swimming off, and you could see a piece of my leg in his mouth," he told Fox Tampa Bay. :shock:
The shark then began circling through the pool of blood in classic predator behaviour before his father-in-law jumped into the water to protect him.
"I immediately threw the spear down with the fish because there was an enormous pool of blood around me and that shark was swimming all through the blood, sort of looking around, for more," continued Mr Norrie.
He used rubber bands from the spear shaft as a makeshift tourniquet while his family radioed for help. A doctor who happened to be nearby provided first aid.
Mr Norrie said it was the most frightening of all his brushes with wildlife.
"That was a tough ride. I really did think I was going to die," he said.
He is now recovering from his injuries at Tampa General Hospital and credits his Christian faith with helping him through the ordeal.
"I didn't keep my head cool, the Lord kept my head cool," said Mr Norrie. "Because I couldn't have done it without him; he sustained me, kept me calm."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ttack.html
A fisherman who lost a two-pound chunk of his leg to a shark says the ordeal is only his latest encounter with the natural world - after being hit by lightning, bitten by a rattlesnake and punched by monkeys.
By Foreign Staff
7:44AM BST 08 Aug 2013
Erik Norrie, 40, was attacked as he fished off the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas but speaking from his hospital bed said his faith in God had not been shaken, despite the string of unfortunate incidents.
He told a television station in Tampa, Florida, that he felt something at the back of his leg on July 29 as he swam back to the family boat after spearfishing in the ocean.
"As I look back, [the shark] was just finishing his bite and ripping and swimming off, and you could see a piece of my leg in his mouth," he told Fox Tampa Bay. :shock:
The shark then began circling through the pool of blood in classic predator behaviour before his father-in-law jumped into the water to protect him.
"I immediately threw the spear down with the fish because there was an enormous pool of blood around me and that shark was swimming all through the blood, sort of looking around, for more," continued Mr Norrie.
He used rubber bands from the spear shaft as a makeshift tourniquet while his family radioed for help. A doctor who happened to be nearby provided first aid.
Mr Norrie said it was the most frightening of all his brushes with wildlife.
"That was a tough ride. I really did think I was going to die," he said.
He is now recovering from his injuries at Tampa General Hospital and credits his Christian faith with helping him through the ordeal.
"I didn't keep my head cool, the Lord kept my head cool," said Mr Norrie. "Because I couldn't have done it without him; he sustained me, kept me calm."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ttack.html
Mythopoeika
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Silly man - doesn't he realise that it's God that's doing this stuff to him?
Mythopoeika said:
Silly man - doesn't he realise that it's God that's doing this stuff to him?
Religious logic. If bad stuff happens to you - God protected yuo from even worse. If good stuff happens to you, it's God's grace. When you die...well - you go to heaven.
If you go to heaven - then why did God protect you in the first place from dying?
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.....ummmmm.... he doesn't exsist, perhaps?
gellatly68
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I want to hear more about the 'punched by monkeys ' incident.
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Car crash 'saved my life' after lung cancer spotted in x-ray
2:15pm Tuesday 10th December 2013 in Falmouth/Penryn .
THERE are not many people who would view an accident as a blessing, but one ex-policeman from Falmouth may owe his life to an icy day in February when he ended up trapped in his written off car following a collision.
Peter Telling and his wife of more than 50 years, Wendy, were on the outskirts of Helston on February 11 when they were involved in the accident with a van which left Peter unable to get out of his vehicle. Both were taken to the Emergency Department at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro.
After initial concerns that Peter had broken his neck were ruled out with scans, the ED team turned their attention to Peter’s chest where he was complaining of pain. An x-ray showed he had broken his sternum but it also showed something unexpected – a shadow on his lung.
After ten hours in ED, Peter was discharged home. He remembers: “There is no treatment for a broken sternum, only rest. They told me they’d send my x-rays to my doctor and I should give him a call in a couple of days. In fact he called me.”
Peter’s GP had arranged for a scan at West Cornwall Hospital in Penzance a few days later and just a week after that he had an appointment to see a cancer specialist at Treliske. “I was told I had cancer on my right lung. It was a shock because I had had no symptoms. There was no weight loss, no cough, no shortness of breath and I used to go for long walks every day. I had once smoked but not for 30 years.
“I had been a policeman for 30 years with Cornwall Constabulary working in Liskeard, Looe, Fowey, Mawnan Smith and Falmouth so I hadn’t done industrial work which could have put me in contact with high risk substances,” said Peter.
The 73-year-old was told his cancer was unusual in that it was at the top of the lung and this meant surgery wasn’t an option. He was sent for a lung biopsy and then met clinical oncology consultant Toby Talbot.
Peter said: “Toby is an absolutely fantastic man. He was quite confident he could do something for me which was very reassuring to hear because you do think ‘that’s it’ when you hear the big C word.”
Peter was to be the first lung cancer patient to use the Trust’s new TrueBeam Linear Accelerator or Linac as it is known. The technology allows doctors to deliver radiotherapy with unparalleled speed and accuracy and ensures patients receive state-of-the-art treatment for their cancer.
The plan was for Peter to have chemotherapy and radiotherapy at the same time. Before his treatment started, Peter was sent to Plymouth for a scan to see if the cancer was elsewhere in his body. Fortunately it had not spread.
“As soon as I returned from Plymouth there was a phone call telling me to come into Lowen Ward to start my treatment. It did all hit me then.”
Peter admits his first all day chemotherapy session was a bit daunting and this was followed a week later by a shorter half day session. “During the third session I was taken down for radiotherapy for the first time. Then it was 33 continuous days of radiotherapy on the new machine.”
Peter finished his treatment in June and after a follow-up has been told that so far things are looking good and the cancer has shrunk considerably. “I feel quite well and fortunately we have been told my cancer is the slow growing kind which is good. I feel very fortunate.”
Peter, a father of two and grandfather of six, has had tremendous support from all his family. “I’m also lucky because my daughter-in-law Liz is a radiographer at the hospital. I said I wanted her to be told everything about my treatment and that meant she was able to explain things to us more.”
Peter is keen to praise the care and treatment he received. “Until it happens to you, you just don’t realise the numbers of people being treated for cancer in Cornwall.
“The staff were just brilliant. They are amazing people.”
Looking back, Peter’s wife Wendy said: “It was the best accident we have ever had. My cousin told Peter that when he is better he should have a party and invite the van driver to thank him!” 8)
Toby Talbot, clinical oncology consultant, said: “Peter was indeed lucky to have his lung cancer picked up when potentially curative treatment could be given. Most lung cancer patients have progressed too far by the time they seek treatment.”
http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/fp ... _in_x_ray/
2:15pm Tuesday 10th December 2013 in Falmouth/Penryn .
THERE are not many people who would view an accident as a blessing, but one ex-policeman from Falmouth may owe his life to an icy day in February when he ended up trapped in his written off car following a collision.
Peter Telling and his wife of more than 50 years, Wendy, were on the outskirts of Helston on February 11 when they were involved in the accident with a van which left Peter unable to get out of his vehicle. Both were taken to the Emergency Department at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro.
After initial concerns that Peter had broken his neck were ruled out with scans, the ED team turned their attention to Peter’s chest where he was complaining of pain. An x-ray showed he had broken his sternum but it also showed something unexpected – a shadow on his lung.
After ten hours in ED, Peter was discharged home. He remembers: “There is no treatment for a broken sternum, only rest. They told me they’d send my x-rays to my doctor and I should give him a call in a couple of days. In fact he called me.”
Peter’s GP had arranged for a scan at West Cornwall Hospital in Penzance a few days later and just a week after that he had an appointment to see a cancer specialist at Treliske. “I was told I had cancer on my right lung. It was a shock because I had had no symptoms. There was no weight loss, no cough, no shortness of breath and I used to go for long walks every day. I had once smoked but not for 30 years.
“I had been a policeman for 30 years with Cornwall Constabulary working in Liskeard, Looe, Fowey, Mawnan Smith and Falmouth so I hadn’t done industrial work which could have put me in contact with high risk substances,” said Peter.
The 73-year-old was told his cancer was unusual in that it was at the top of the lung and this meant surgery wasn’t an option. He was sent for a lung biopsy and then met clinical oncology consultant Toby Talbot.
Peter said: “Toby is an absolutely fantastic man. He was quite confident he could do something for me which was very reassuring to hear because you do think ‘that’s it’ when you hear the big C word.”
Peter was to be the first lung cancer patient to use the Trust’s new TrueBeam Linear Accelerator or Linac as it is known. The technology allows doctors to deliver radiotherapy with unparalleled speed and accuracy and ensures patients receive state-of-the-art treatment for their cancer.
The plan was for Peter to have chemotherapy and radiotherapy at the same time. Before his treatment started, Peter was sent to Plymouth for a scan to see if the cancer was elsewhere in his body. Fortunately it had not spread.
“As soon as I returned from Plymouth there was a phone call telling me to come into Lowen Ward to start my treatment. It did all hit me then.”
Peter admits his first all day chemotherapy session was a bit daunting and this was followed a week later by a shorter half day session. “During the third session I was taken down for radiotherapy for the first time. Then it was 33 continuous days of radiotherapy on the new machine.”
Peter finished his treatment in June and after a follow-up has been told that so far things are looking good and the cancer has shrunk considerably. “I feel quite well and fortunately we have been told my cancer is the slow growing kind which is good. I feel very fortunate.”
Peter, a father of two and grandfather of six, has had tremendous support from all his family. “I’m also lucky because my daughter-in-law Liz is a radiographer at the hospital. I said I wanted her to be told everything about my treatment and that meant she was able to explain things to us more.”
Peter is keen to praise the care and treatment he received. “Until it happens to you, you just don’t realise the numbers of people being treated for cancer in Cornwall.
“The staff were just brilliant. They are amazing people.”
Looking back, Peter’s wife Wendy said: “It was the best accident we have ever had. My cousin told Peter that when he is better he should have a party and invite the van driver to thank him!” 8)
Toby Talbot, clinical oncology consultant, said: “Peter was indeed lucky to have his lung cancer picked up when potentially curative treatment could be given. Most lung cancer patients have progressed too far by the time they seek treatment.”
http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/fp ... _in_x_ray/
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A little backstory: I used to live in India, and in my travels there picked up a tiny (and I mean tiny, it's the size of a quarter) carved stone Ganesh figure as a charm. Sri Ganesha and the elephant motif show up frequently for me in unusual ways, and I've come to look upon this figure as a guardian, so I thought to buy a little charm to carry with me for "protection", though I'm not sure how much I believe in such things. For those who might not know, Sri Ganesha is the "remover of obstacles" and as such is often invoked by travelers to ensure safe and smooth travels.
Anyway, a few months after buying this talisman, I was backpacking through SE Asia and wound up in Bangkok, Thailand, during the Songkran (new year) festival, the biggest holiday of the year. A friend and I had met up in Bangkok to enjoy the holiday. He'd come from the US and had only two weeks to spend in Thailand, and he'd meticulously planned out (and paid for) each step of our journey.
We were to travel from Bangkok to Chiangmai, by train, the night before Songkran proper. The problem was, my friend, in all his careful planning, had somehow overlooked buying the train tickets in advance. We arrived two nights beforehand at a Kao San Road travel agent looking for train tickets. This being a huge holiday, however, of course the trains and buses had sold out weeks and even months in advance. We were all paid up for hotels, tours, and so forth, in Chiangmai, so we did NOT want to lose out on that.
The travel agent was packed - long lines of foreigners trying to get tickets here and there and being turned away one after another as it was impossible. Everything booked and overcrowded. By the time our turn came up we were anxious. We asked for two tickets on the train for our original night, but the travel agent shook his head and told us it was impossible. He called the train service to see if tickets were available for the next night, but those were sold out, too. He thought that perhaps we might be able to catch a bus if we were willing to do that. It was a longer trip but at that point we didn't mind. He told us to wait at the counter and got on the phone. After several phone calls he returned to tell us that unfortunately, all the buses were also booked full. Nothing available.
After some discussion, my friend and I decided we would have to travel many days later than planned and asked the agent if he could get us tickets on the next possible train. The agent warned us it might be days or weeks later. Then, as he went to make the call, I told my friend that I felt we had one more shot.
I took the Ganesh figure out of my pack and placed it on the counter. Then I said a little prayer to Sri Ganesha and asked him for our help. My friend was a little incredulous, as I'm a skeptic and non-believer of the first sort, but I explained to him that a couple of times beforehand I'd had some minor good luck come from this figure during my travels and that I was sure it would help us. Anyway, nothing to lose.
About 30 seconds later, the nonplussed travel agent put down the phone and came running over. He could barely believe our luck - he called the train service to discover that the instant before he'd called, a cancellation had come through for two tickets to Chiangmai on the original train and date my friend and I had requested.
You should have seen the look on my friend's face. As for me? Chills up my spine. After that, we were both believers.
As we were leaving, we heard the two women in line behind us request tickets on our train for that date... and the travel agent assure them that it was impossible and turned them away without even making a call.
It's not the last time I've asked Sri Ganesha for help in extraordinary circumstances and had him come through... though I suppose it was simply an amazing coincidence. Or was it?
Anyway, a few months after buying this talisman, I was backpacking through SE Asia and wound up in Bangkok, Thailand, during the Songkran (new year) festival, the biggest holiday of the year. A friend and I had met up in Bangkok to enjoy the holiday. He'd come from the US and had only two weeks to spend in Thailand, and he'd meticulously planned out (and paid for) each step of our journey.
We were to travel from Bangkok to Chiangmai, by train, the night before Songkran proper. The problem was, my friend, in all his careful planning, had somehow overlooked buying the train tickets in advance. We arrived two nights beforehand at a Kao San Road travel agent looking for train tickets. This being a huge holiday, however, of course the trains and buses had sold out weeks and even months in advance. We were all paid up for hotels, tours, and so forth, in Chiangmai, so we did NOT want to lose out on that.
The travel agent was packed - long lines of foreigners trying to get tickets here and there and being turned away one after another as it was impossible. Everything booked and overcrowded. By the time our turn came up we were anxious. We asked for two tickets on the train for our original night, but the travel agent shook his head and told us it was impossible. He called the train service to see if tickets were available for the next night, but those were sold out, too. He thought that perhaps we might be able to catch a bus if we were willing to do that. It was a longer trip but at that point we didn't mind. He told us to wait at the counter and got on the phone. After several phone calls he returned to tell us that unfortunately, all the buses were also booked full. Nothing available.
After some discussion, my friend and I decided we would have to travel many days later than planned and asked the agent if he could get us tickets on the next possible train. The agent warned us it might be days or weeks later. Then, as he went to make the call, I told my friend that I felt we had one more shot.
I took the Ganesh figure out of my pack and placed it on the counter. Then I said a little prayer to Sri Ganesha and asked him for our help. My friend was a little incredulous, as I'm a skeptic and non-believer of the first sort, but I explained to him that a couple of times beforehand I'd had some minor good luck come from this figure during my travels and that I was sure it would help us. Anyway, nothing to lose.
About 30 seconds later, the nonplussed travel agent put down the phone and came running over. He could barely believe our luck - he called the train service to discover that the instant before he'd called, a cancellation had come through for two tickets to Chiangmai on the original train and date my friend and I had requested.
You should have seen the look on my friend's face. As for me? Chills up my spine. After that, we were both believers.
As we were leaving, we heard the two women in line behind us request tickets on our train for that date... and the travel agent assure them that it was impossible and turned them away without even making a call.
It's not the last time I've asked Sri Ganesha for help in extraordinary circumstances and had him come through... though I suppose it was simply an amazing coincidence. Or was it?
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Your trunk call delivered the goods.
REmember the time Homer Simpson dressed up as Ganesh.
REmember the time Homer Simpson dressed up as Ganesh.
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Hmm. I'll have to ask my friend if he has a spare Ganesh ornament that I can have...
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Re: The luckiest man in the world
By BBC Trending
Why is the man from Croatia who cheated death seven times, then won the lottery, upset? Because of a cartoon about him going viral on YouTube.
Frane Selak has the kind of life story which is just begging to be made into a film. But now that it has, he's apparently unhappy with the way he has been portrayed.
Selak is an octogenarian music teacher from Croatia. According to newspaper interviews, his run of near escapes began back in 1962, when the Sarajevo-to-Dubrovnik train he was on derailed and hurtled into a river - but he saved both himself and his grandmother.
Six more brushes with death followed. He plunged into the river on a bus, walked away from not one but two exploding cars, and survived a plane crash by landing on a haystack after being thrown clear. A protruding tree saved him when he drove off a cliff - and he bounced back from being hit by a bus. Then, as if to prove that he was the luckiest - rather than unluckiest - man in the world, Selak won around $1m (£600,000) in a lottery, giving most of it away to friends and family.
His story has popped up on various news sites over the years, and provided inspiration to David Ransom, an animator in New York whose company is called This & That Visuals. "I was struggling to think of a new topic to do a video on and Frane's story came to me," he told the BBC. He uploaded the three-minute cartoon to YouTube at the start of May. It has been watched more than 1.2 million times.
But, according to reports in Croatia, the subject of the film is not impressed. The Zagreb-based daily Jutarnji List asked for his reaction - and Mr Selak did not sound like "the happiest man in the world" of legend. "The Americans have no idea," he complained. "They drew a moustache on me and mixed up all my accidents. Maybe they will earn big money, while I live on a pension. At least send me a thousand dollars."
The BBC has not managed to reach Selak for comment. Newspaper reports suggest he is contemplating taking legal action, but David Ransom hopes it will not go that far. "I am very sorry that he was upset by his depiction," he says. "If he would like to set the record straight I would be more than happy to amend the video to more accurately represent his image, and add or remove any details he wants."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-27414609
#BBCtrending: Is the 'world's luckiest man' being exploited?Ronson8 said:
By BBC Trending
Why is the man from Croatia who cheated death seven times, then won the lottery, upset? Because of a cartoon about him going viral on YouTube.
Frane Selak has the kind of life story which is just begging to be made into a film. But now that it has, he's apparently unhappy with the way he has been portrayed.
Selak is an octogenarian music teacher from Croatia. According to newspaper interviews, his run of near escapes began back in 1962, when the Sarajevo-to-Dubrovnik train he was on derailed and hurtled into a river - but he saved both himself and his grandmother.
Six more brushes with death followed. He plunged into the river on a bus, walked away from not one but two exploding cars, and survived a plane crash by landing on a haystack after being thrown clear. A protruding tree saved him when he drove off a cliff - and he bounced back from being hit by a bus. Then, as if to prove that he was the luckiest - rather than unluckiest - man in the world, Selak won around $1m (£600,000) in a lottery, giving most of it away to friends and family.
His story has popped up on various news sites over the years, and provided inspiration to David Ransom, an animator in New York whose company is called This & That Visuals. "I was struggling to think of a new topic to do a video on and Frane's story came to me," he told the BBC. He uploaded the three-minute cartoon to YouTube at the start of May. It has been watched more than 1.2 million times.
But, according to reports in Croatia, the subject of the film is not impressed. The Zagreb-based daily Jutarnji List asked for his reaction - and Mr Selak did not sound like "the happiest man in the world" of legend. "The Americans have no idea," he complained. "They drew a moustache on me and mixed up all my accidents. Maybe they will earn big money, while I live on a pension. At least send me a thousand dollars."
The BBC has not managed to reach Selak for comment. Newspaper reports suggest he is contemplating taking legal action, but David Ransom hopes it will not go that far. "I am very sorry that he was upset by his depiction," he says. "If he would like to set the record straight I would be more than happy to amend the video to more accurately represent his image, and add or remove any details he wants."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-27414609
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Woman scores two holes in one – in the same round of golf
A keen amateur golfer has defied odds of 40 million to 1 and scored two holes in one during a single round of golf
By Gregory Walton
10:33PM BST 30 May 2014
An amateur golfer has beaten overwhelming odds to sink two holes in one during the course of a game.
Patricia Smart, 61, achieved the feat while playing in a ladies' day tournament at Lytham Green Drive Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire.
She impressed her fellow golfers when she defied odds of 12,500 to 1 to achieve an ace before repeating it just minutes later. Bookmakers give odds of 40 million to 1 for two aces in a single round of golf.
She said: "If I'd only got one hole in one in my lifetime I think that would have been pretty good but two in one round is unbelievable.
"It was actually raining and the second one is a very difficult, 130 yard hole and all you're thinking about is to make sure you get over the pond. I thought it had gone through to the back of the green. But my partner said, 'Oh my God it's gone in!' Now I'm buying the drinks.
"I've been into work and everybody keeps coming up and saying, 'Are you the lady who had two holes in ones?' But you know what golf is like, you have a purple patch and then you have a black patch for weeks and weeks. It's unbelievable isn't it?"
Mrs Smart regularly competes in local tournaments with her husband Jim with whom she has lived in Lytham St Annes for over 30 years.
Mr Smart, 64, said: "She was having a steady game up to that point and she took her seven wood on the sixth, she didn't think it had gone in the hole but the other lady decided that it had so when they went up to have a look she looked round the back of the green but her friend got all excited and said it had gone in the hole.
"That was all going quite nicely and then the second one she hit a four wood and that had to go over a pond in front of the green and again she wasn't sure it had gone in, she thought it had run off the back – but her friend was quite adamant that it had gone in and she was proved correct."
Club secretary Ian Stewart said: "It was in the ladies' qualifying competition. I'm not allowed to play in it, believe it or not so I didn't see it. But we've definitely not had two holes in one in the same round before, that's for definite.
"Obviously it'll be going in the local paper over the next few days. I'm not sure what we'll be doing at the golf club, we've already presented her with some flowers but things don't move that quickly at golf clubs."
Tiger Woods famously scored a hole in one at the age of six while US pro Michelle Wie achieved her first ace aged just 12.
A spokesman for bookmaker Paddy Power said: "An average amateur golfer, a 16 handicapper, would be on odds of 40 million to 1, to score two holes in one and if you were a pro golfer we would make it 1.7 million to 1. Pretty good either way."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/w ... -golf.html
A keen amateur golfer has defied odds of 40 million to 1 and scored two holes in one during a single round of golf
By Gregory Walton
10:33PM BST 30 May 2014
An amateur golfer has beaten overwhelming odds to sink two holes in one during the course of a game.
Patricia Smart, 61, achieved the feat while playing in a ladies' day tournament at Lytham Green Drive Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire.
She impressed her fellow golfers when she defied odds of 12,500 to 1 to achieve an ace before repeating it just minutes later. Bookmakers give odds of 40 million to 1 for two aces in a single round of golf.
She said: "If I'd only got one hole in one in my lifetime I think that would have been pretty good but two in one round is unbelievable.
"It was actually raining and the second one is a very difficult, 130 yard hole and all you're thinking about is to make sure you get over the pond. I thought it had gone through to the back of the green. But my partner said, 'Oh my God it's gone in!' Now I'm buying the drinks.
"I've been into work and everybody keeps coming up and saying, 'Are you the lady who had two holes in ones?' But you know what golf is like, you have a purple patch and then you have a black patch for weeks and weeks. It's unbelievable isn't it?"
Mrs Smart regularly competes in local tournaments with her husband Jim with whom she has lived in Lytham St Annes for over 30 years.
Mr Smart, 64, said: "She was having a steady game up to that point and she took her seven wood on the sixth, she didn't think it had gone in the hole but the other lady decided that it had so when they went up to have a look she looked round the back of the green but her friend got all excited and said it had gone in the hole.
"That was all going quite nicely and then the second one she hit a four wood and that had to go over a pond in front of the green and again she wasn't sure it had gone in, she thought it had run off the back – but her friend was quite adamant that it had gone in and she was proved correct."
Club secretary Ian Stewart said: "It was in the ladies' qualifying competition. I'm not allowed to play in it, believe it or not so I didn't see it. But we've definitely not had two holes in one in the same round before, that's for definite.
"Obviously it'll be going in the local paper over the next few days. I'm not sure what we'll be doing at the golf club, we've already presented her with some flowers but things don't move that quickly at golf clubs."
Tiger Woods famously scored a hole in one at the age of six while US pro Michelle Wie achieved her first ace aged just 12.
A spokesman for bookmaker Paddy Power said: "An average amateur golfer, a 16 handicapper, would be on odds of 40 million to 1, to score two holes in one and if you were a pro golfer we would make it 1.7 million to 1. Pretty good either way."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/w ... -golf.html
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Police find £6,000 cannabis factory near Penryn after knocking door to ask for directions
A cannabis growing operation producing drugs worth more than £6,000 was stumbled upon by chance near Penryn when officers called at a house to ask for directions.
What they found there led to the appearance before Truro magistrates of engineer John James Butler, 36, of Lamanva near Penryn, who pleaded guilty to producing 607.27g of cannabis in October.
Alison May, for the CPS, said officers had knocked at defendant’s door for directions, and because it was raining were let inside. There they smelt cannabis, and went on to find two tents containing cut and dried cannabis matter, growing plants and growing equipment
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http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/11836988.Police_find___6_000_cannabis_factory_near_Penryn_after_knocking_door_to_ask_for_directions/?ref=mr
A cannabis growing operation producing drugs worth more than £6,000 was stumbled upon by chance near Penryn when officers called at a house to ask for directions.
What they found there led to the appearance before Truro magistrates of engineer John James Butler, 36, of Lamanva near Penryn, who pleaded guilty to producing 607.27g of cannabis in October.
Alison May, for the CPS, said officers had knocked at defendant’s door for directions, and because it was raining were let inside. There they smelt cannabis, and went on to find two tents containing cut and dried cannabis matter, growing plants and growing equipment
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http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/11836988.Police_find___6_000_cannabis_factory_near_Penryn_after_knocking_door_to_ask_for_directions/?ref=mr
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Dentist speaks of remarkable moment he saved a patient's life inside Wadebridge practice
By CGMikeS | Posted: January 06, 2017
A Wadebridge dentist has told of the vital minutes in which he saved the life of a man who was suffering a cardiac arrest at his surgery.
Patient David Oldham, 66, was sitting in the waiting room of the Wadebridge Dental Care practice at around 9.20am on December 19 when a fellow patient saw that he was unwell.
Receptionist Jill Constance ran upstairs to alert associate dentist Brian Needham, who as a paramedic of 22 years was the most qualified person inside the practice to deal with the situation.
Brian, 52, was tending to a patient when Jill burst through the door. He recalls: "I had a mirror in one hand and was probing with the other. The door burst open and one of the receptionists said words to the effect of, 'I want you downstairs now'.
"I saw David, and luckily due to my experience I can spot a cardiac arrest when it's happening, so I got him on the floor with the help of a patient, cleared the waiting room and poor old Jill, who was brilliant, was on his chest doing CPR while I got the defibrillator out.
"Then Andy [practice owner] came in, who is a bit bigger than Jill, and he took over CPR while Jill moved over to the head end to do the oxygenation - and then I did the defibrillator."
Within four minutes paramedics arrived at the scene, and a further four minutes later the air ambulance had landed in the nearby school field.
Once David was loaded onto the helicopter to be transported to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, he was able to nod his head and ask questions. Practice owner Andy Taylor even recalls David lifting his leg while getting on the stretcher.
"Although it is recommended that dental practices have a defibrillator, it is not strictly compulsory, but if this story persuades another practice to get one, then it's worth it," Andy said.
"This shows how important it is to avoid those crucial delays, get early treatment and to have the right equipment available.
"We bought the defibrillator in 2011, and these days they are so readily available. They are in a small box and anybody can use it, it's self-explanatory and safe. They are brilliant.
"But Brian's experience saved us a good amount of time, there's no doubt about that. We all have training here, but that small delay can make the difference. But it was a real team effort and everybody in the practice mucked in."
Brian added: "A defibrillator really takes the anxiety out of having to do something like that for a lay person. I've had the experience of doing it a few times before and tend not to be fazed by it anymore, but I remember what it was like the first time I did it.
"It just goes to prove that any delay is crucial. Within two minutes we were on his chest, and within 3 or 4 minutes he had his first shock. Every minute that passes by you get less and less chance of survival. Fortunately it was all spot on, and the performance of the ambulance service was excellent too.
"If he had been out with his wife feeding horses or anywhere else, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation."
David, who lives in St Minver, was lost for words when trying to express how thankful he is for the intervention of Brian and the rest of the team at the practice.
"I sat down and didn't feel well, and the next minute I thought I had scored the winning goal at Wembley, because there were people everywhere," he recalls.
"What happened is just incredible, you just couldn't write it because of the sequence of events that followed.
"I shouldn't have even been here when it happened, because I had missed my previous appointment.
"Words cannot express how grateful I am to everybody for saving my life. I'm so lucky to be alive."
http://www.cornwalllive.com/dentist...dge-practice/story-30036541-detail/story.html
By CGMikeS | Posted: January 06, 2017
A Wadebridge dentist has told of the vital minutes in which he saved the life of a man who was suffering a cardiac arrest at his surgery.
Patient David Oldham, 66, was sitting in the waiting room of the Wadebridge Dental Care practice at around 9.20am on December 19 when a fellow patient saw that he was unwell.
Receptionist Jill Constance ran upstairs to alert associate dentist Brian Needham, who as a paramedic of 22 years was the most qualified person inside the practice to deal with the situation.
Brian, 52, was tending to a patient when Jill burst through the door. He recalls: "I had a mirror in one hand and was probing with the other. The door burst open and one of the receptionists said words to the effect of, 'I want you downstairs now'.
"I saw David, and luckily due to my experience I can spot a cardiac arrest when it's happening, so I got him on the floor with the help of a patient, cleared the waiting room and poor old Jill, who was brilliant, was on his chest doing CPR while I got the defibrillator out.
"Then Andy [practice owner] came in, who is a bit bigger than Jill, and he took over CPR while Jill moved over to the head end to do the oxygenation - and then I did the defibrillator."
Within four minutes paramedics arrived at the scene, and a further four minutes later the air ambulance had landed in the nearby school field.
Once David was loaded onto the helicopter to be transported to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, he was able to nod his head and ask questions. Practice owner Andy Taylor even recalls David lifting his leg while getting on the stretcher.
"Although it is recommended that dental practices have a defibrillator, it is not strictly compulsory, but if this story persuades another practice to get one, then it's worth it," Andy said.
"This shows how important it is to avoid those crucial delays, get early treatment and to have the right equipment available.
"We bought the defibrillator in 2011, and these days they are so readily available. They are in a small box and anybody can use it, it's self-explanatory and safe. They are brilliant.
"But Brian's experience saved us a good amount of time, there's no doubt about that. We all have training here, but that small delay can make the difference. But it was a real team effort and everybody in the practice mucked in."
Brian added: "A defibrillator really takes the anxiety out of having to do something like that for a lay person. I've had the experience of doing it a few times before and tend not to be fazed by it anymore, but I remember what it was like the first time I did it.
"It just goes to prove that any delay is crucial. Within two minutes we were on his chest, and within 3 or 4 minutes he had his first shock. Every minute that passes by you get less and less chance of survival. Fortunately it was all spot on, and the performance of the ambulance service was excellent too.
"If he had been out with his wife feeding horses or anywhere else, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation."
David, who lives in St Minver, was lost for words when trying to express how thankful he is for the intervention of Brian and the rest of the team at the practice.
"I sat down and didn't feel well, and the next minute I thought I had scored the winning goal at Wembley, because there were people everywhere," he recalls.
"What happened is just incredible, you just couldn't write it because of the sequence of events that followed.
"I shouldn't have even been here when it happened, because I had missed my previous appointment.
"Words cannot express how grateful I am to everybody for saving my life. I'm so lucky to be alive."
http://www.cornwalllive.com/dentist...dge-practice/story-30036541-detail/story.html
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It's happened again ...
SOURCE: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-09-21-09-53-59
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Here's a (qualified) beginner's luck incident. This guy wasn't a beginner at gambling or online wagering, but he hit the 'big one' on his first try at a new gaming site after a multi-year hiatus ...
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/f28df20eac7741fa...ins-internet-gambling,-wins-$194K-on-1st-spin
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/f28df20eac7741fa...ins-internet-gambling,-wins-$194K-on-1st-spin
This is definitely beginner's luck:
Canada teen wins $1000 a week for life on 18th birthday
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43561379
Canada teen wins $1000 a week for life on 18th birthday
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43561379
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This art speculator's hunch to invest in an abandoned storage unit paid off ...
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/17925cd9578f4f17...s-storage-locker-for-$15,000,-finds-treasures
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/17925cd9578f4f17...s-storage-locker-for-$15,000,-finds-treasures
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For 40 years no one could open a combination-locked safe in a small Alberta (Canada) town's museum.
Then a first-time visitor opened it on the first try ...
Then a first-time visitor opened it on the first try ...
FULL STORY: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/06/americas/tourist-safe-locked-40-years-trnd/index.html
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Diver attacked by shark rescued by fishing boat full of nurses in Florida:
A spearfisherman who was attacked by a shark over the weekend in Florida was saved by a group of medical professionals who just happened to be in a boat nearby.
The 40-year-old diver was bitten by a shark while diving near Key Biscayne on Saturday morning, and his companions flagged down a passing charter fishing boat to help him.
Little did the injured man know that the boat he was climbing into was full of nurses ready to assist him during his emergency, including Christine Haines and Glaiza Martin, a pediatric nurse and an operating nurse respectively.
The bite was so severe that the man's arm was "mangled" and he was "just blood from arm to foot," Evans said.
The nurses immediately applied a tourniquet to the man's arm while Evans rinsed him off with a hose, he said.
The man was still recovering at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami as of Monday evening.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/diver-attacked-shark-rescued-fishing-boat-full-nurses/story?id=64803039
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A spearfisherman who was attacked by a shark over the weekend in Florida was saved by a group of medical professionals who just happened to be in a boat nearby.
The 40-year-old diver was bitten by a shark while diving near Key Biscayne on Saturday morning, and his companions flagged down a passing charter fishing boat to help him.
Little did the injured man know that the boat he was climbing into was full of nurses ready to assist him during his emergency, including Christine Haines and Glaiza Martin, a pediatric nurse and an operating nurse respectively.
The bite was so severe that the man's arm was "mangled" and he was "just blood from arm to foot," Evans said.
The nurses immediately applied a tourniquet to the man's arm while Evans rinsed him off with a hose, he said.
The man was still recovering at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami as of Monday evening.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/diver-attacked-shark-rescued-fishing-boat-full-nurses/story?id=64803039
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