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While getting hit by lightning, for instance, sounds soooo unlikely, the chance of it happening is never zero. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are less than one in a million, however, the person holding the record in the US has been struck seven times in their lifetime. Talk about bad luck.

If you think that’s unlikely to happen, buckle up for today’s list, as it’s dedicated to even more mind-blowing occurrences that happened despite the odds. Continue scrolling to find redditors’ stories, which they shared after ‘Plus-Statistician80’ asked them about statistically improbable things that happened to them, and see that it’s not only bad luck but funny coincidences, too, that can happen despite being unlikely.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did Not me but my old neighbour, let's call him Jimmy. He and his wife decide to go on a once in a lifetime trip to Australia and New Zealand. At one point he's driving through a really remote part of New Zealand and his hire car breaks down. This was before mobile phones. No other cars on the road and just endless countryside around him. So he sets off for the one building he can see, some farm further down the road and about a mile up its own driveway. He finally reaches it, knocks the door and a woman answers. She took one look at him and said "What the hell are you doing here Jimmy?".
She went to the same school as him, in the same tiny village in the UK. She had emigrated 30+ years before and ended up on this remote farm.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did Favorite Chinese restaurant in Ohio.  Went to Hawaii. Tasted pepper steak at restaurant and mentioned to the owner it tasted the same as the one in Ohio.  Owner was the brother of the owner of the Ohio restaurant. .

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did When I was on holiday as a kid in Ireland our car broke down going up a hill. A farmer came out and towed us back to the cottage we were staying at.

The next year we were driving up the same hill and the car broke down again in the same place. The same farmer came out of his house and said ‘Didn’t I see you here last year?’.

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At least he didn't say 'Oh no not you lot again'

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In a recent interview with Bored Panda, the user ‘Plus-Statistician80’ shared that they wanted to ask a question that would garner a solid variety of responses. And it sure did.

Redditors' stories covered everything from winning the lottery (the chances of which are close to zero), to meeting an old acquaintance million miles away from where they used to hang out (which isn’t that common of an occurrence either), among other things.
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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did I started playing World of Warcraft when it launched and I was living in California at the time. A year and a half later I moved across the country to a very small town in Tennessee. The kind where the population doubles when college is in session.

I was playing the game and while waiting on a guild meeting the guildies started saying where they were from. One guy who I was buddies with said he was in the same small town I was currently in. Then the same part of town. Then the same apartment complex. Then the same building. He was two doors down from me, part of a row of townhouses.

I said “Hold on, step outside.” and a moment later we were staring each other in the face. Countless hours spent playing together not realizing we were only separated by a single neighbor’s room. We became great friends and hung out in and outside the game for several years until I moved back to California.

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I just saw that it is a lonely story without comments, so here’s one support message from a gamer.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did Not me, but i had a phonecall with my grandma recently and she told me that she and her husband went on a trip the other day. They sat down on a table which they thought was free but a few moments later another couple the same age came through and said they already occupied the table but they could sit there together and drink coffee or something. So they did and my grandmother and the other woman started to talk and got to the point where the other woman mentioned her surname for some reason, which happened not only to be uncommon but also seemed familiar to my grandma. It turned out, that the other woman and my grandma were neighbors in a small german village back then, but during world war 2 had to leave. Over 80 years later they met again because my grandma sat down on an occupied table hundreds of kilometers away from the village they come from.

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Life can be so nice when we are sociable. It's a skill we have to learn, and a generosity of spirit we need to develop. I wish I was more sociable

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did My son and I watched the eclipse in Wyoming on August 21, 2017.
He asked when the next would be. Aside from the recent one in April 2024, we discovered there will be one in our hometown on August 12, 2045.
He noticed the he would be about the same age on that date, as I was during the Wyoming eclipse. I was 41, and he will be 41 at the one in the future.

We did the math...

As it turns out, on August 21, 2017 I was 15,206 days old.
On August 12, 2045, my son will be 15,206 days old.

I sure hope to enjoy it with him!

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“Specific events are generally unique to the individual so I thought this would be a great question,” the redditor told Bored Panda, adding that the things they found the most surprising about the netizens’ answers were how close some of them came to death and how small the world was.
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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did My Jeep was stolen and then taken by the thieves to the gas station where I was working to fill up on gas.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bwuhaha, I am assuming cops were called and all ended well?

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I took my kids on family vacation to the beach, and my car was kinda acting up the entire time. I had a 2010 Chevy Traverese, and it kept not wanting to start, but I jumped it and started heading home after a week of babying it.

Anyway, I was in Ocean shores, headed back to central WA, about 6 hours away. As I head through Olympia, the car just gives up and dies. So I pull off to the side of the road, and a big truck pulling a camper pulls up behind me. He said he could jump me, and he did. Car started and was doing great. About 15 minutes later, I hear a loud thunk, and car dies, this time permanently. So I pull over. About 20 minutes go by, and again, the same trunk pulls over. I am at this point 5 hours away from home. Guy said, "we'll look like it's done for, but if you tell me where you live, I can take you most of the way. I tell him my city, and he laughs, and says Me too!. I asked what street he lives on, and apparently, he lived four houses down. So I packed what I could into his camper, and he took me, my wife, and three kids home. I made sure to thank him and every Thanksgiving and Christmas brought him either a turkey or a ham, for my appreciation.

Well, several years later and divorced. I meet my current girlfriend. My Tahoe needed the wheel bearings replaced and I was so busy, I had no time to do it myself. Especially working 80 some hours a week at times. So I wanted to pay someone for it. She tells me her dad has a friend and he would do it fairly reasonably if I buy parts. So I do, and she takes me to his shop. Same dude that helped me years ago. I get out of the car and give him a big hug. Tell him I would pay whatever he wants and left my Tahoe there. I ended up also giving him a gift card to a fancy local restaurant for his trouble.

About 6 months later, I was trying to pull out a cat from under a car in a smoldering hot parking lot as it was stray and very tiny, and the temps were over 110 degrees on black top. So I chased this kitten right under a truck, and the driver waiting for his wife steps out, there he is again.

Every time I have needed help innthe past few years, it seems like he is always there. Dude might be Jesus or something. Not like I lived in a crazy small town. Over 400k people in my city. I have went 30 years without running into people that visit the same places I do.

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*Attenborough voice* The elusive Australian Jesus. Its last known sighting was over 2000 years ago, but recently scientists have found a living specimen in the Australian Outback. It lives a very different life, and can be found in cities. It does not seem to possess the water-walking skills of the more well-known Middle Eastern Jesus, scientific name Christus Nazaretii

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did Surviving a drowning having been gone for 12-15 minutes, resuscitated, 2 days on life support, lost a third of my bodyweight and walked out of the hospital less than a week later. Full clean bill of health two weeks after that. No permanent damage.

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Discussing things that were unlikely to happen but did to the OP themselves, the redditor admitted having a police helicopter light them up in their car once with a bright spotlight and red and blue lights. “I pulled over and waited for what I assumed was a swat team coming to get me,” they shared.

“I waited a few minutes and then the lights went off and it flew off,” the netizen recalled, adding that the statistically improbable part was that they had just actually committed an offense. “I really thought I was done for; but nope… [It was a] wrong person or maybe they were bored and messing with me.”
#10

I was walking down the sidewalk when some scaffolding gave and almost crashed down on me. Fortunately, someone shoved me out of the way. Ten years later a bus lost its brakes and nearly hit me but someone pulled me to safety. The weird part? It was the same person that saved me both times.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did Stuck in traffic on the George Washington Bridge, I looked in my rearview mirror and realized my parents were in the car right behind me. They lived in a different state. Completely random chance.

Could be worse. My buddy has been struck by lightning twice, and - independently of that - once woke up naked in a morgue with a toe tag on.

EDIT: Not a prank. He’d been surfing with his partner, got hit by a wave, and the bungee attaching him to his board got snagged on a rock underwater. He remembers seeing the surface but not being able to reach it. His partner fished him out, called 911, and did CPR for about 45 minutes until the paramedics arrived. They said “nope, he’s gone.” She said “are you sure, because I thought…” They said “Nope.” So they bagged and tagged him.

And then he woke up in the morgue.

Cold water. No permanent damage, but you can bet that the law suit paid for his chef’s training.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When he opened a restaurant he gave a whole new meaning to the phrase: “Tag us.”

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Bring out the dead! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdf5EXo6I68

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Thus proving my worst fear isn't so far fetched - being buried alive

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My English teacher was hit by lightning twice, both times through the telephone.. of course, this was back in the days of landlines..

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Good thing I didn't know this was a possibility because I was often in the phone during storms since the power was out but the phones worked.

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No permanent damage for him , the company can not say the same. I'm sure he is a great Chef.

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Paramedics don't bag and tag, if he was dead on scene and they didn't think he could be recessitated they wouldn't transport they would call the coronor's office to come and propley process the body, sorry to say this story is BS

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One person doing CPR for 45 minutes? And who did he sue, the ocean? This has to be from reddit because this is total b******t.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did Back in 2004, I had been hitchhiking around out west for a couple of months. Summer was coming to an end, though, and I was planning on making my way back to Indiana where my parents lived. I was on the Oregon coast when I got picked up by a biology teacher, we'll call him Scott, from New York.


Scott was on his summer break doing hikes in different parks out west, but was also about to start his trek back home. Since Indiana was on the way, I asked if I could tag along and maybe get dropped off in Indiana. He said he had a few more hikes and peaks planned, but if I was okay with that, I was welcome to join him.


We went to Mt. Hood and South Sister in Oregon, Canyonlands down in Utah, a couple of peaks in Colorado, and he took me all the way back to Indiana and dropped me off at my parents house. It was a wonderful time and we exchanged emails to keep in touch. Time went on, and the emails became much less frequent, but every now and then, one of us would reach out and check in.


In 2015, I moved to Boise, Idaho. Sometime in 2016 or 2017, I checked that old email address of mine and, sure enough, there was an email from Scott asking how I was doing. I replied and told him how I was in Idaho now and gave him my phone number as that was a much easier way to get ahold of me.


About 30 minutes after I sent that email, I got a text from Scott. He said that was amazing and that I should come over to Payette Brewery and have a beer with him. He lived in Boise, too! But it gets even crazier.


I couldn't join him right then, but we agreed to get together later that evening. Scott invited me over to his house and sent me his address. When I typed it into google maps I was in shock. He only lived 3 blocks away from me! We were neighbors!

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did I gave birth to my daughter on my birthday. Roughly three years later, I gave birth to my son on his father's birthday.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My spouse, my dad, my niece, and my best friend all have the same birthday. Dad, spouse, niece, in that order are each 30 years apart. Also, my daughter was born on mother's Day and my son was born on my birthday 😊

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did I won $30,000 from a slot machine and paid off all my student loans that week.

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I paid 5000€ for a five years bachelor at the FTIS (theological university in Milan). Now I work in a very different field but what I learned there help me appreciate more my life and I'm not burdened by a absurd student loan. No regrets

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did I had my SO's aunt (on their dad's side) show us Tillamook Ice cream for the first time ever. Never heard of it, never tried it. It was good though! We had Caramel toffee cruch flavor.


The next day later, someone at work randomly brought everyone ice cream... it was Tillamook... Caramel toffee crunch flavor. (They have never brought us ice cream before, this was entirely random and out of nowhere)


Litterally the day after that, we saw my SO's Mom (their mom and dad are divorced and don't talk), anywho, she had something she just HAD to show us... it was Tillamook... specifically, Caramel toffee crunch flavor.


Finally, the next day, we had to see my parents. They didn't have it, but my mom asked us if we ever tried Tillamook, "because it's really creamy, I like the Caramel toffee flavor".


I felt like I was in a groundhog day themed ice cream ad.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Probably there was a -70% sale of Tillamook at local supermarket :)

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did I was in the WTC both times it got attacked... 1993 and 2001.. so guess what tourist attraction I will not visit.. I am not giving them another shot at me.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my God. Great to hear you lived to tell the tale. It sounds like some documentary material.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did Car was broken into, everything stolen including handbag in boot with wedding ring and engagement ring. Bag was found in a field weeks later and handed into police and we were called to see if it was ours. There had been a hole in the pocket where the rings were and they had fallen into it and were still there.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did I worked at a funeral home and was cleaning out the basement. Found an old photo of a newly wed couple that must've been left at a service, or left at a graveside and collected. The date on the back of the photo was the same day I found it, 60-some years later. Pretty wild but not unbelievable.

Then, about an hour later a very elderly man walks in the lobby. It's none other than the husband from the photo, ready to begin pre-planning his own funeral arrangements. Both of us were in tears when I showed him the photo of him and his wife.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I bet he appreciated it getting it back. Probably brought back a lot of memories.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did A car with the next license plate number parked next to me.

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Once, I was going to meet my friend at the Bronx Zoo. I was going from a totally different direction. We end up arriving almost at the exact moment and parking right next to each other! Not sure what the odds are!

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I dropped a quarter. I was busy looking for something in my pocket and I didn't watch where it rolled to. I was on a blacktop driveway so I didn't think I would have trouble finding it. When I started to look for it I couldn't find it anywhere. Finally I decided to drop another quarter and direct it in the same direction I knew the other one had rolled. I watched the second quarter roll up to the house and underneath the screen door. I figured "oh, ok thats where the first quarter is also. I went over to the screen door and opened it up.....only one quarter! I'm thinking where the heck is that first quarter. I bent down to pick up my second quarter and there were two quarters. The second quarter had landed directly on top of the first quarter! Under the screen door. Dropped from about 15 feet away!

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I lived. Doctors told my parents they would be surprised if I made it to 2, then 5, then 10, 18. After 18 I was out of the woods and had a whole life left to live.

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Jumped off a boat while docked in Cabo. Probably 20 feet deep water. Didn’t realize for hours later than my Apple Watch had come off. Panicked and immediately started to cope with the fact it was gone. The captain said “I’ll go get it.” Hopped in the water w goggles and flipper. 15 min later popped up with it. Said he followed the anchor line down and the current to determine where I must have hit the water when I jumped in. Scanned the area briefly and located it. Already had it in water mode and it was completely unharmed. Absolutely incredible. Tipped well that charter.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That captain was clearly very experienced and knows the water well, it's great that he was able to find it!

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Had a baby with a life threatening birth defect. Only 1600 babies a year are born with congenital diaphragmatic hernia, my little girl being one of them. We’re incredibly fortunate that she survived and is thriving.

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Not me.

My oldest son quit HS with 6 wks to go, went back after a year, got his diploma, then went to college, has to waste a year due to an auto accident, had a failed relationship, had a daughter which he eventually got custody of.

Took 7 years to complete college.

Now has an MBA and is a director of sourcing for an international chemical company.

Was kind of a wild ride.

He tells young people that he's living proof that you can screw things up massively and turn it around if you really want to.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did Got attacked by a robin in the morning, then attacked by a hawk 3 hours later. Weird day.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did In Eastern North Carolina I overheard a table speaking German when I was waiting tables in college. I was learning to speak German at the time and decided to just say hello or something to them.

Come to find out they were living in the US at the time, and after fast-forwarding 10 years we've got several European trips together and they're some of my closest friends!

If I hadn't just said a simple hello in a language I was learning, I never would have had most of my international experiences and connections.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did Years ago I matched with someone on a dating site and we both discovered that we live in exactly the same suburb. That isn't the improbable statistic, what really blew our minds was when talking about our pets.

We discovered that we both have a cat called Ramone, that we PREVIOUSLY named Ramona before realising weeks later after getting them that they were not infact female. Wild coincidence 😆.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did On Reddit, someone found a camera memory card in Australia and posted some photos from it to help find the owner. The photos were of my co-worker in Los Angeles.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did My stolen bike was recovered by police. The thief was arrested and jailed. It was a miracle of a series of fortunate events.

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In 2009, I recently bought a pretty distinctive bike (2008 Bianchi San Jose) and decided to ride it to work. I worked in Downtown Brooklyn in an area called Metro Tech, which is a series of 20ish story buildings and a public common area run by JP Morgan Chase. I locked my bike at a rack between the buildings at 9am. When I went to leave at 5pm, the bike was gone. After collecting myself from the shock of my new bike being stolen, I went over to the security office for Metrotech. The person manning the front desk heard my story, but pretty much threw his hands up and said there’s no hope. However, while we were chatting a guy in a suit walks into the area and says he runs security for the entire complex. He asks me a few questions and says he’s going to review some of the security footage, but he can’t promise anything. I thank him and go home. I make some posts to some NYC bicycle forums that night with pics. I was thoroughly depressed.

The next day, I take a little break from work and walk over to the police precinct and file a report about 10am. Of course, this being NYC, the lady taking the statement treated me like I was wasting her time. This kind of stuff happens all the time. However, around 3pm I was sitting at my desk at work and get a call from a guy with a thick Brooklyn accent.

*Is this u/Silent_Beautiful_738?

Yes

*Do you own a Bianchi Bicycle?

Yes

*Does it have a sticker on it? What does it say?

Yes? Robert’s Bicycles Bayside Queens.

*We have your bike. Meet me at the precinct.

Get to the precinct. I identify the bike. They say the guy who stole it is being booked, and they tell me the story.

NYC has these “undercover” cops that kind of roam around in unmarked cars and surprise people. Well these cops just happened to be driving around Park Slope area, which is kind of a wealthier area, and see this guy with a brand new bike and a piece of notebook paper taped to the front saying $200. They stop and jump out. They start grilling him. “Is that your bike? Where did you get it? Etc” The guy was obviously lying through his teeth, but they couldn’t do anything about it. There was no proof. They get back in the car and drive off. As they’re driving, they get a radio call to head to Metrotech Security.

When they get there, the head of security says he has footage of a guy stealing a bicycle. The image of the man and the bike are clear. The bike has distinctive stripes on it, so there’s no way to mistake it. The cops view the footage and holy s**t, it’s the f*****g guy they just stopped. They get the footage and haul a*s back to the corner where they saw the guy and what-do you-know, he’s still there. The arrest him. Confiscate the bike. Since they have the video, the police report, and personally witnessed him trying to sell it, I got my bike back immediately and never had to go to court.

What are the odds that the head of security walks into that security office, finds the footage, and the same exact cops who see the thief are called to review the footage? Why did the thief stay at the same corner? Why didn’t he remove the sticker? F*****g miraculous.

After all this, I got some messages from the bicycle forums from people in Park Slope who saw the guy trying to sell the bike. Apparently, he was getting a lot of s**t from passersby because he was obviously hocking stolen goods.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So for the thief it was a series of unfortunate events...

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did Not me, but a friend married a guy named Joe. After they got married she moved into his house that he already owned. Years later they divorce and she moves out. Then a few years after that she meets and marries another guy named Joe who owns a house on that exact same street!

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I hooked up with the foreign exchange student when I was 14/15.

A few years later she adds me on Facebook, we talk a bit and she says she needs to come to England to work for her bachelor degree and I offer to come stay with us again.

Now we've been together for 10 years, married 4 and have two kids.

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I'm 6'5" and work a regular office job. In my row of 8 cubicles there are two guys taller than me. On my side of the office with a about 50 cubicles there are 3 guys taller than me. I looked up the odds of that happening and it's somewhere around 1 in 500 million. Better chance of winning Powerball, except my prize is being teased for being 'short'.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did In Atlantic City several years ago, my husband hit $1000 on the slot poker machine. I hate gambling, but was bored, so I sat next to him and put some money into the poker machine, and hit $1000. This was within a couple minutes of him.

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#34

My daughter absorbed her twin, has extra bones and is rather asymmetric because of it. 12 surgeries later and she’s living a pretty normal life.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if she is a chimera and would test genetically different on different parts of her body.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She has an excellent villain origin story if she ever needs one lol glad she's doing well.

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A rare complication of surgery affected my vagus nerve causing my heart to randomly stop. 3 months later after numerous tests at the age of 32 I have a dual lead pacemaker. My cardiologist who is the best in my state and is a highly regarded professor has never heard of it happening before and has now started researching it.

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Not directly to me but rather my family. My father in October 2023 was the only person in the United States to have both a double bypass and double lung transplant at the same time due to pulmonary fibroids (probably from being a fire fighter at the twins towers) . He survived the procedure but fought for his life for 9 more months in ICU. Never left the hospital (died 2 weeks ago).

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm so sorry for your loss, glad your dad was brave enough to give it a red hot go for life though, you must be so proud.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did Went to drop a friend for his job interview and got the job myself.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I need the rest of this story. Or is it on an AITA thread somewhere? 😂

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did I did poorly in high school but ended up getting into Harvard for graduate school and have been a researcher at MIT for over a decade now.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am the opposite! I was the topper in school, but ended up being a loser working for a low paid company.

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did My wife and I decided to watch a long movie in two sittings, pausing around the middle of the movie. Without trying I paused the movie at the exact half, right down to the second.

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Have what's called a hemorrhagic cavernoma in the right paracentral hemisphere of my brain....simple term, a malformed blood vessel.

It opened up, bleeding into my brain, and that caused a hemorrhagic stroke... The survival rate is about 3% and then if you do survive you usually have major neurological and/or motor function problems..I don't really suffer from much of anything either, was having some minor seizures, but I'm on meds for that now, so I'm really ok...

They even did a study on me to see why I came out in as good of a condition as I did, maybe why I came out so good could lead to some form of treatment, but they really found nothing.

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Struck by lightning while in my basement!

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I saved someone's life using the Heimlich maneuver.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saved my son's life using it and didn't know exactly how to do it other than watching tv. Scariest day of my life

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My grandma and my uncle once used the same credit card to pay for gas within 30 minutes of each other and without having talked, they put in the same exact amount down to the cent. It wasn’t even preauthorised, it was something totally random like $47.83 or something. The bank thought it was an error so they removed one of the charges.

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My dad, son, and I have the same birth month and day.

My husband lost his ring in the ocean. A week later when we arrived home from Florida I opened up the first FB page I found for that area and asked if anyone had found it. Not even 10 minutes later someone replied and stated that they thought they had his ring but asked me for more of a description. Sure enough it was his and the lady mailed the ring to me from Massachusetts's I believe. The ring washed up at the FL beach two days after we lost it and it was discovered without the use of a metal detector.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My twin younger brothers and grandpa have the same birthday!

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“What The Hell Are You Doing Here, Jimmy?”: 30 Things That Were Super Unlikely To Happen, But Did There’s a guy who works at a local pizza shop near us and has a Mustang that’s pretty recognisable from its paint job and decals. Me and the wife took a trip to Texas (seven states away from us) and we saw that Mustang in a parking lot. Pretty wild to think we both went on a trip at the same time to the same place and where at the same area.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Live in a rural Michigan town, was driving to east coast of Fla and stopped at a rest area S of Atlanta. Got back from the rest room and saw folks we know from home. Talked for 5 minutes or so. Quite the odd happening.

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The day my car got towed for parking in the snow plow street Nov 1 (the first day of the rule change), it cost me half a day and $400.

That night, I went to bingo and won the jackpot worth $400.

Same year, I was at a black tie charity for the Brookfield Zoo. Five raffle tickets for $100. You put a ticket in the bucket in front of your desired item.

I won two of the five. A Chanel bag worth $2000 (in 1994), and a David Yurman black diamond ring and bracelet at worth $3000.

Idk why I even bother buying lotto tickets. Lifelong Probability for me has been sucked dry in that one year.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandma used up all the family luck when she won a car in the 1950s

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My dad has a genetic heart defect he discovered at age 60. Passes down through males. Bicuspid aortic valve. Chance of passing it to your first degree relatives is around 9%. My dad's discovery came in the form of this defect trying to kill him twice in one year. So, with that emotional trauma, it was time for my brother to get checked out. He has it. Well, what are the chances that he passed it onto both of us? I'm a male annnnddd a winner haha. Hopefully, I also make it to 60 before it tries to kill me.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe it isn't that rare? My best friend's dad had a genetic heart condition where his heart would beat dangerously fast for no reason once in a while. She and her brother inherited the condition along with both her nephews. All of them ended up having ablation surgery to stop the arrhythmic episodes.

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Won a brand new mustang in 1997 in a high school booster club raffle.

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I developed a very rare, typically male tumor (I am a woman) which usually occurs (unlikely) in women at an “older” age, like fifty years old, when I was 16. yeah lucky me !

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I have 3 children from 2 different relationships born on July 5..

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I’ve been hit with a rare medical condition called r/pssd after using an SSRI antidepressant. It’s persistent sexual dysfunction that continues indefinitely after stopping the medication. Doctors deny its existence, so it’s pretty statistically improbable that I (and thousands of people worldwide) got hit by that devastating side effect.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unfortunately not rare at all. And not just SSRI's, but also mood stabilizers (Lamictal) and possibly other psych meds. Also meds for hair loss (propecia) and acne (accutane). And it's not just sexual function, but the ability to feel emotions and pleasure of any kind. It's extremely scary and if someone feels this when starting a medication they should stop immediately (unless lack of the med will kill them, obviously) and don't let the doctor tell you that 'it will 'go away with time', because the short amount of time you stay on the med to see if it will go away, may be enough time to permanently damage your brain.

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