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44 comments to "The World’s (Un)Luckiest Man"
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Avital
October 17th, 2007 at
2:41 am
WOW.
I wonder if that’s really bad luck or just bad Croatian safety regulations. -
Marc
October 17th, 2007 at
7:05 am
The story is probably a fake. At least one thing for sure hasn’t happened: the airplane accident. There hasn’t been a single airplane crash in all of Yugoslavia’s existence. And in the 60’s, that area was still Yugoslavia
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Scott Carney
October 17th, 2007 at
7:55 am
It sounds like the plot from Unbreakable. I wonder if he ever beat up Samuel L Jackson.
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L.B. Jeffries
October 17th, 2007 at
8:03 am
Wasn’t it Larry Niven who proposed that you could actually breed luck? One of the characters of ‘Ringworld’ was like a 7th generation lottery winner or something. Someone needs to get this guy’s DNA on file.
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Shakibing
October 17th, 2007 at
8:11 am
Far from unlucky!!! Many others would have died after the first thing…
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Josh P.
October 17th, 2007 at
8:18 am
Maybe he’s the one that caused all the accidents…?
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Chris Johnston
October 17th, 2007 at
8:20 am
And I thought MY luck was bad!
Selak might be the inspiration for the 1995 Fox series “Strange Luck”, starring D.B. Sweeney as Chance Harper.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112182/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Luck
http://www.swcp.com/~jamii/StrangeLuck/ -
achim
October 17th, 2007 at
9:02 am
must be a fake. cars only explode in movies, next to never in real life. Only one car model, the 70ies pinto, was reported to explode. but it exploded right away, didnt catch fire before exploding. a burning car does not explode.
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DCer
October 17th, 2007 at
9:24 am
Yeah “door blew off the plane?” That is an incorrect way to describe anything like that. Even soviet-era plane doors opened inward. I smell a pathological liar.
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Adam Stanhope
October 17th, 2007 at
9:47 am
Alcohol!
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Adam Stanhope
October 17th, 2007 at
9:50 am
Wow - check this out from the Talk: page of his Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frane_Selak
One man dreamed all his Life about been Famous…Couldn’t make it as a musician…Then he won a lottery!
He had found local “journalist”,who published a story of little truth and lots of fantasies in the local newspapers.Naive western “journalists” have transfered story in their newspapers (without checking the facts in the archives or talking to witnesses!) and the Lucky Star was born…
Now,they should go back to Mr.Selak and ask him about his 5 marriages and his sons that he never cared about.Or,at least-check the archives and try to find reports of all these “incredible survival-stories”.You finally made it,Dad!
Selak Z
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jaromir
October 17th, 2007 at
9:50 am
Actually if anything it sounds like he has incredably good luck. Unless of course his intent was to die.
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Justin
October 17th, 2007 at
1:02 pm
If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is…
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Tom
October 17th, 2007 at
1:53 pm
maybe he should stay inside
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Butch H
October 17th, 2007 at
1:58 pm
He’s Blessed, it had to be in the Master Plan. He must have a reason for keeping him around. Maybe just maybe he’ll do some good deeds with some of that money. Great Story !
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steve
October 17th, 2007 at
4:10 pm
Yes scott carney he did beat up samuel L Jackson, , while falling from a buring plane only to land on a pile of neatly stacked matresses.
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SierraNightTide
October 17th, 2007 at
4:23 pm
The lottery win was the prize for a life long reality tv show that will be broadcasting on Fox in December 2007
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BaMmAsS
October 17th, 2007 at
5:57 pm
how what !$#%&^#%^#%@$% you’ve got to be shitting me… where’d he get all that karma from!??!!?
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pw
October 17th, 2007 at
6:36 pm
@DCer:
The doors of a lot of medium sized passenger carrying aeroplanes I’ve been on do open outwards on a cantilever arrangement.
The whole story sounds like the adventures of Baron Munchausen - but there are a lot of people in the world - so the odds are one or two have survived several unlikely accidents in succession.
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DannyK
October 17th, 2007 at
6:46 pm
Wow. I wonder if I could get him to go to vegas with me
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Samson
October 17th, 2007 at
10:12 pm
It does sounds too good to be true. But, I still hope this lucky person to stay lucky. It’d be ashame to hear a new update by 2010 that the lucky person passed away in a very unlucky fashion.
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Mich D
October 17th, 2007 at
10:23 pm
This sounds to me like pure BS, however I have had a number of incidents in my life that makes one wonder.
5 times in my life I have been within 100 feet of a lightning hit and never been hurt. The fist was in 1985 on I-80 eastbound about 25 miles west of the Quad Cities in Iowa. I was in a truck in the left lane passing a small car. The car was still about 75 feet in front of me and a lightning bolt hit the ground in the center of the freeway right next to it sending flaming concrete into the air. It put a dent in the passenger door of the car about the size of a basketball. Was a sight I will never forget.
The 2nd was about 5 miles later when my trailer was hit. It punched a hole in the roof on the passenger side almost at the rear of the trailer (48 foot trailer) about the size of a quarter. It blew out every light on the trailer EXCEPT the one closest to where the lightning hit.
The 3rd was in also in 1985. I was in the army reserve at the time (B co, 3rd bn, 3rd rgt Ft. Snelling MN). We were on a weekend drill on patrol and happened to be in a gully between 2 hills when it hit a tree on the closest hill. The other 2 frankly I dont remember, they werent really memorable at this point.
When I was a kid I used to hang the christmas lights on the eves of the house. We didnt have a ladder that would reach the part over the driveway, so I used to lay on the roof in the snow and hang over the edge and put them up. Several times I almost slid off, but never did.
Also when I was a kid, I was on the roof of my treefort and tripped. I fell about 25 feet landing flat on my face (literally) and got up and walked away. I have been in numerous accidents that for some unknown reason walked away from, the most serious injury being a concussion when a car pulled out in front of me with me doing 50 miles an hour with no seatbelt on.
I am not a particularly religious person, but a long time ago I decided when God wants me, he is going to get me, so live your life to the fullest.
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DNA
October 17th, 2007 at
11:57 pm
fake
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Jim
October 18th, 2007 at
2:27 am
Yah…You had me going until you mention the “He won a million dollars” …yeah, right…
I’m calling BS…
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Christian
October 18th, 2007 at
2:40 am
The moral of this story is… Don’t ever get in a cus, car, plane, or building with that man.
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don
October 18th, 2007 at
6:56 am
This is a very weird story! Was it on Google news?
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desertguy
October 18th, 2007 at
9:09 am
Sounds like a good movie plot. However, i have to correct the person that said cars don’t catch fire or explode. WRONG! My cousin had his ford bronco worked on and the shop didn’t reconnect the fuel line all the way. As he was driving it home the fuel sprayed all over the engine and of course caught fire, which started coming into the cab through the floor and dash vents. He slammed it into park going about 30mph and jumped out. Granted it didn’t actually explode, but it did burn to the ground.
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jokez
October 18th, 2007 at
9:11 am
It must be true if it’s on the internet!
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david
October 18th, 2007 at
9:45 am
I wish I was so lucky!
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Jeff
October 18th, 2007 at
10:24 am
He is the luckiest man alive. How else would a guy looking like he does actually attract 5 women?
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Ace Leader
October 18th, 2007 at
5:44 pm
if a plane door came off then being sucked out would definitly kill him.
the acceleration of the fall (9.81m/s^2 on the earth)no matter what he fell on (hay isnt that soft) would cause enough internal injuries to kill him instantly
well… i suppose if the plane was only flying at like 50ft then maybe not, but usually planes stick to around 35000ft. -
Koena
October 18th, 2007 at
10:30 pm
ahah i agree with Josh P. (Maybe he’s the one that caused all the accidents…?)
thats what i thought too
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saravanan
October 18th, 2007 at
10:39 pm
What a amazing real story!
Even he had gotten many accident he luckily escaped.
From 1962 to 1996 he faced so much of trouble in his life however now he got one million from lottery.Do you think he is a lucky Man? I can say NO…
by saravanan from KCT
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Reijko
October 19th, 2007 at
11:01 am
response to marc post #2:
and according to ahmadinejad, there are no homosexuals in iran.
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Roger
October 20th, 2007 at
9:25 am
This looks like complete nonsense to me. The story reminds me of James Frey except Frane hasn’t been on the Oprah Winfrey show yet.
Regarding Ace Leader’s point about falling from an aircraft, above some point it doesn’t really matter what the aircraft height was because the body reaches terminal velocity due to air resistance. More info at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity. The question is, can anybody survive hitting a haystack at 120 mph. Sombody care to volunteer to find out?
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Tiptup300
October 20th, 2007 at
6:07 pm
Life comes at you fast.
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Zach
October 20th, 2007 at
10:21 pm
“if a plane door came off then being sucked out would definitly kill him.
the acceleration of the fall (9.81m/s^2 on the earth)no matter what he fell on (hay isnt that soft) would cause enough internal injuries to kill him instantly
well… i suppose if the plane was only flying at like 50ft then maybe not, but usually planes stick to around 35000ft.”This. Is. Retarded. For one, the actual acceleration of gravity is 9.8m/s². For two, there’s such thing as wind resistance. For three, there have been cases of people surviving terminal velocity, so stop trying to look like the cool guy on the block. In fact, I’ve read multiple guides on how to survive a fall from ANY HEIGHT.
It’s possible, get over it.
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Scary Website
October 21st, 2007 at
4:01 pm
LOL. I was all ready to believe his story until the part about him driving off the road and jumping out of his car into the safety of a tree. That one just stretched credibility. Haha
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yobgod
October 21st, 2007 at
9:46 pm
here’s the doritos ad
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jono
December 18th, 2007 at
11:38 am
with no proper verification i’d have to say ’splendid’
job well done boy - anyone not believing this needs there BSometer retuning - i live in ireland and saw EP t’other day in dublin
who said Queenie L’s not les…
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Izabael DaJinn
December 18th, 2007 at
9:37 pm
There is a big gap here between 1973-1995 with no incident. If he was going to lie he probably would have spaced it more evenly for showmanship sake.
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Jackson
May 29th, 2008 at
9:47 am
I come from Australia and there was infact a Doritoes commercial with this guy in it, he recorded it from his loungeroom or atleast a place in Croatia because he refused to fly over here for the ad.
I’d assume channel Ten, or atleast which ever Australian channel it was that had the ad on it, would do a little research to confirm his tall stories.
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prolan5
August 5th, 2008 at
9:25 am
HTI63K eeeerrrffddgggggggccccc
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derf
August 15th, 2008 at
4:45 am
HlUIiR re re rerrrreeee gththtt
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