Comments on: The World’s (Un)Luckiest Man

By: ADaaammmmm

ADaaammmmm — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:45:43 +0000

would love to see flight numbers, possible news storys and shame on this article for not referencing even which lottery, bought at what shop stc.
until then… fake & gay…

By: Brainy Brandon

Brainy Brandon — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:39:47 +0000

My guess is that he’s actually a writer of movie plots and makes up the stories himself.
SCIENCE T shirt XL please.

By: Nadia Foster

Nadia Foster — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:25:53 +0000

Unlucky indeed, I feel for anyone that is unlucky or unfortunate, I always say stay positive and think positive and positive things will happen !!!

By: Some facts

Some facts — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:49:03 +0000

Sorry, I need actual factual documents. I’m talkin’ credible reports on what plan crashed, witness testimony, etc.

Crap like this ruins the internet. No factual documents or conjuncture offered. Just a lot of ‘amusing’ hyperbole. A lot of a friend of a friend told me crap.

Yeah, offer me time tables and sanctioned testimonies I might believe it. Until then, grade a bull flop.

By: Jayco (Zeljko) Selak

Jayco (Zeljko) Selak — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:18:22 +0000

People READ the comment from Adam Stanhope above!
STOP commenting on bunch of lies!
The ONLY THRUE things:lottery win and Doritos commercial (after “naive” Australians also have bought the “luckiest man”-story!)
How do I know?
Read MY NAME !
If you have questions,feel free to contact me on : jzgarden@hotmail.com

By: clowns1

clowns1 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:12:36 +0000

That guy on the couch is funny

By: derf

derf — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:45:16 +0000

HlUIiR re re rerrrreeee gththtt

By: prolan5

prolan5 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:25:28 +0000

HTI63K eeeerrrffddgggggggccccc

By: Jackson

Jackson — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:47:27 +0000

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.

By: Izabael DaJinn

Izabael DaJinn — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:37:54 +0000

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.

By: jono

jono — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:38:37 +0000

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…

By: yobgod

yobgod — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:46:51 +0000

here’s the doritos ad

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vPA8baUeGWU

By: Scary Website

Scary Website — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:01:47 +0000

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

By: Zach

Zach — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:21:24 +0000

“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.

By: Tiptup300

Tiptup300 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:07:27 +0000

Life comes at you fast.

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:25:10 +0000

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?

By: Reijko

Reijko — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:01:26 +0000

response to marc post #2:

and according to ahmadinejad, there are no homosexuals in iran.

By: saravanan

saravanan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:39:44 +0000

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

By: Koena

Koena — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:30:18 +0000

ahah i agree with Josh P. (Maybe he’s the one that caused all the accidents…?)

thats what i thought too

By: Ace Leader

Ace Leader — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:44:55 +0000

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.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:24:01 +0000

He is the luckiest man alive. How else would a guy looking like he does actually attract 5 women?

By: david

david — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:45:25 +0000

I wish I was so lucky!

By: jokez

jokez — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:11:45 +0000

It must be true if it’s on the internet!

By: desertguy

desertguy — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:09:13 +0000

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.

By: don

don — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:56:19 +0000

This is a very weird story! Was it on Google news?

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:40:33 +0000

The moral of this story is… Don’t ever get in a cus, car, plane, or building with that man.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:27:08 +0000

Yah…You had me going until you mention the “He won a million dollars” …yeah, right…

I’m calling BS…

By: DNA

DNA — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:57:59 +0000

fake

By: Mich D

Mich D — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:23:09 +0000

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.

By: Samson

Samson — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:12:18 +0000

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.

By: DannyK

DannyK — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:46:47 +0000

Wow. I wonder if I could get him to go to vegas with me

By: pw

pw — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:36:01 +0000

@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.

By: BaMmAsS

BaMmAsS — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:57:50 +0000

how what !$#%&^#%^#%@$% you’ve got to be shitting me… where’d he get all that karma from!??!!?

By: SierraNightTide

SierraNightTide — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:23:59 +0000

The lottery win was the prize for a life long reality tv show that will be broadcasting on Fox in December 2007

By: steve

steve — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:10:56 +0000

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.

By: Butch H

Butch H — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:58:37 +0000

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 !

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:53:14 +0000

maybe he should stay inside

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:02:39 +0000

If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is…

By: jaromir

jaromir — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:50:48 +0000

Actually if anything it sounds like he has incredably good luck. Unless of course his intent was to die.

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:50:46 +0000

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

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:47:43 +0000

Alcohol!

By: DCer

DCer — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:24:30 +0000

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.

By: achim

achim — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:02:04 +0000

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.

By: Chris Johnston

Chris Johnston — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:20:52 +0000

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/

By: Josh P.

Josh P. — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:18:27 +0000

Maybe he’s the one that caused all the accidents…?

By: Shakibing

Shakibing — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:11:23 +0000

Far from unlucky!!! Many others would have died after the first thing…

By: L.B. Jeffries

L.B. Jeffries — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:03:13 +0000

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.

By: Scott Carney

Scott Carney — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:55:38 +0000

It sounds like the plot from Unbreakable. I wonder if he ever beat up Samuel L Jackson.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:05:13 +0000

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

By: Avital

Avital — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:41:00 +0000

WOW.
I wonder if that’s really bad luck or just bad Croatian safety regulations.