16 People Who Were Seconds Away From Losing Their Life

16 Les BOS in a harrowing brush with death that was captured on camera in April 2023 French skier Les BOS fell into a deep crass while skiing downhill at a high speed on a mountain called lame a GoPro helmet camera captured the moment He Slipped through a deceptive layer of snow and descended into the darkness Palos eventually managed to come to a stop by wedging his skis into an extremely narrow Ledge in the side of the shoot the 36-year-old had fallen about 15 ft but it was evident based on the video that he could have plunged much further down into the dark abyss using his crampons and a rope lowered by his friends he safely climbed out of the crass in a social media post Palos said that the video wasn't being shared for hype but to remind people that even skilled skiers who are familiar with the lagra glacia can unexpectedly end up in Peril 15 Megan hunt after spending several Winters in warm places to avoid snow and freezing temperatures Megan hunt took a job as a line cook at the to ski resort in New Mexico in 2018 she had no experience skiing or snowboarding but she wanted to try them out Megan later wrote in a Huffington Post contribution piece that she didn't learn to ski or snowboard as quickly as she wanted because she was too busy working one day in March of 2019 the ski resort shut down its lifts by by the early afternoon due to heavy snow and 75 mph winds visitors came down from the mountain and Megan went home she was reading in bed when all of a sudden she heard a deep Rumble curious about the source of the noise she looked down the window a wall of trees and snow were barreling toward her too quickly for her to avoid their path she lost Consciousness and soon woke up beneath 8 ft of snow trapped underneath its Weist Megan could only move one of her arms the rest of her body was stuck in place she screamed as loud as she could as many times as she could for about 20 minutes but her lungs were bruised and oxygen was in short supply and it wore her out quickly luckily Megan's roommate heard her and got to work digging her out with help from a neighbor and several other people it took them 20 minutes but they eventually reached the trapped young woman and removed her from the snow by then Megan had Fallen unconscious and was no longer breathing her body temperature had dropped to 94.5 de F and she was hypothermic in her Huffington Post article she wrote that a person's chances of survival are almost zero when they're buried beneath more than 6 ft of snow a person's likelihood of surviving also drops perilously the longer they're trapped which meant that the odds were stacked extremely high against Megan statistically she shouldn't have survived and if it had taken her rescue as much longer to get to her she probably wouldn't have she went on to make a miraculous recovery although she endured several physical and mental setbacks due to the traumatic experience one of the main things that saved her was a piece of debris that fell near her face and created enough of an air pocket for her to breathe enough to yell Megan also credited her survival to the many people who participated in her rescue from searching to digging her out to getting her to an ambulance and providing the treatment she needed 14 Harry chatter Harry chatter had just entered his home in the English Village of hail Zone in November 2022 when a sinkle suddenly opened up in his backyard the gaping 7ft deep void swallowed part of his walkway and began gushing out natural gas Harry later told the express and star that if the hole had opened up just a few seconds sooner it would have swallowed him alive Authority initially told nearby residents that they could remain in their homes but fire and gas officials immediately evacuated eight families after realizing just how dangerous the situation was they blamed a collapsed sewer for causing the sinkhole and the local water supply company paid for the evacuees to stay elsewhere but denied being at fault for the situation according to a company spokesperson the damage SE a pipe that prompted the disaster was very close to the foundation of an apartment building repairing it would be complicated and timec consuming which meant that the displaced residents would not be spending Christmas in their homes the situation was extremely distressing for the evacuees who weren't even allowed to return home to retrieve any belongings Harry chat told the express and star that he had to break into his flat to retrieve his cat his future was particularly uncertain since the sinkhole was the closest to his home figuring it would take at least a few months for the repairs to be carried out he rented an apartment and decided to get used to living there for the time being 13 Young sugan on an otherwise typical afternoon in October 2022 a 911 dispatcher in thirston County Washington took a disturbing call from a woman who sounded like she was gagged and unable to talk the caller kept screaming as if she was terrified for her life while pushing random buttons on the phone then suddenly went silent with little other information to go on the night 111 operator traced the call to a home in the city of lacy and sent police to the scene officers arrived at the residence of 42-year-old young Suk an to find the front door unlocked nobody was home but the inside was in disarray as if a struggle had occurred as the officers investigated Young's 20-year-old daughter Crystal arrived at the residence Crystal told the cops that she her mother and her brother had arrived home from church to find her father's van in the driveway which was normal because he did his laundry at the house once a week at the time young was in the process of divorcing her estranged husband 53-year-old US Army veteran Jay kyong an there was a history of domestic violence and a previous order of protection that had been cancelled by the court young had sent an emergency text sharing her location with Crystal and a friend who showed up at the scene but nobody knew what had happened or where she was hours later in in the middle of the night young emerged from the forest and pounded frantically on a stranger's door the homeowner dialed 911 and when the police arrived young rushed toward them and cried for help saying that her husband was trying to kill her she was heavily bruised and covered in dirt with duct tape on her face neck and ankles according to police young said that she and chai had gotten into an argument while discussing finances when asked to leave chai allegedly punched young repeated and threw her to the ground he bound her and covered her mouth with dunk tape then briefly left the room giving her an opportunity to dial 911 with her Apple watch Shai caught young trying to call for help and smash the device with a hammer then forced her into his van and drove to a remote wooded location young told the police that she could hear chai digging and that he drunked her before putting her in the ground she also remembered feeling dirt being piled on top of her body and face and struggling to breathe as she lay in the hole that chai had dug with intentions to use it as her grave at some point young managed to slip out of her restraints and climb out of the hole she didn't know how long she'd been in there or if Chay was still nearby so she ran through the woods for a half hour before approaching the first house she saw young said that chai had threatened to kill her before and that he said he would rather have her dead than Fork over a penny of his retirement money he was arrested later that day and investigators found the shallow 19in hole the young had been buried in in and around the hole they found pieces of dunk tape and Young's hair authorities charged CH with first-degree assault first-degree kidnapping first-degree attempted murder harassment threat to kill and robbery as of early 2024 he remains held without bail at the thirston county jail 12 Anthony Brittain hoping to establish himself as a modernday hini British escape artist and stunn performer Anthony Britain willingly allowed himself to be buried in a 6ft deep hole while handcuffed in 2015 at 38 years old he was the third person to ever try what's known as Houdini's buried alive challenge both Houdini and the second person to attempt the stunt British escape artist Alan Allen had to be rescued in 1990 a 32-year-old American magician named Joe Baris died while attempting A variation of the stunt which involved being buried in a clear plastic casket under several feet of dirt topped by a layer of cement the weight of the cement crushed the casket and killed Joe had not calculated whether the homemade box could withstand the weight of the materials being poured on top of it Britain's attempts took place in slawe Spar West Yorkshire where an excited crowd had gathered to watch the stunt take place if the performance went as planned he would free himself from the handcuffs and cruel to the surface but when 9 Minutes passed without Britain reappearing onlookers became scared some to the point of crying by the time Britain's team dug him out of the hole with help from a backhoe operator he was unconscious members of his team had to clear dirt out of his nose and mouth before paramedics were able to administer oxygen and it took several minutes for Britain to regain consciousness just like Houdini and Allan he nearly died Britain later told the guardian that he remembered his life flashing before his eyes before he blanked out he said he had visions of his deceased relatives talking to him during the last moments that he remembered the next thing he knew he was on the ground being resuscitated although Britain seemed immensely grateful to still be alive he told the BBC just a few months later that he hadn't ruled out the possibility of attempting the Buried Alive challenge again in the future thankfully it hasn't happened 11 Cable Car crisis eight lives hung in the balance in August 2023 when the cable car they were riding in broke while traveling 900 ft above a River Canyon in batagram Pakistan they were on their morning commute when one of the cables suspending the car snapped leaving them perilously perched in place for more than 12 hours while waiting Rescue It took 6 hour hours for the rescue operation to get underway and several more hours to pluck the stranded passengers one by one from the broken Cable Car footage of the harrowing operation showed an army Commander using a makeshift chairlift to remove the car's occupants while suspended beneath a helicopter the rescue effort was delicate according to an expert who told reporters that the wind generated by the helicopter blades could weaken the remaining cables that the car was still attached to because it's illegal to fly a helicopter after sunset in the region The Rescuers eventually switched to an even more terrifying strategy which involved approaching the car by traveling along one of the intact cables with the makeshift chair left thankfully everyone safely reach Solid Ground 24-year-old Survivor Gul farz told the guardian that he comforted the two children in the dangling car but on the inside he wasn't so confident that they would all survive after being stranded for an hour he finally got a cell phone signal and started calling everyone he knew in hopes that help would follow in Pakistan's remote mountainous regions suspended cable cars are part of everyday life but they are often poorly maintained according to ABC7 leading to injuries and deaths every year the car that broke most recently was missing a door on one side and had other issues that local authorities allegedly knew about yet they failed to take action following the rescue the country's caretaker prime minister Ana ulak Kaka announced that he had ordered a nationwide safety inspection of cable cars and chair lifts 10 Zoe kill during a visit to Zen Beach of Thailand's kofan Yan Island in October 2023 23-year-old Australian tourist Zoe kahill suddenly felt a pain surging through her body she was about 160 ft from Shore when the excruciating sensation drun Zoe ran toward the shore and made it to dry land just before she collapsed and started turning blue the young woman had been stung by a bonx jellyfish it's considered among the most venomous Marine creatures in existence with highly potent Venom containing toxins that attack a person's nervous system heart and skin cells the symptoms are agonizing and can lead to paralysis Cardiac Arrest or even death in a matter of minutes out of the 15 people who was stung by box jellyfish of the kofan Yan Coast between 1995 and 2015 six died if Zoe hadn't gotten out of the water and sought hel when she did she most likely wouldn't have survived she later told Australia's nine news that as many as 15 people crowded around her to help as she screamed out in pain still unsure of what had happened to her they soaked the sting site with vinegar which can partially neutralize the Venom and called for an ambulance Zoe was rushed to several local emergency rooms by speedboat before being transferred to a hospital with a marine toxin expert she was treated with an antihistamine as she slowly recovered during what amounted to a month-long Hospital stay for the first 2 weeks she was unable to walk after finally being released from the hospital and returning to Australia she shared her story as a cautionary tale about the dangers of box jellyfish things speaking with n news Zoe said she was to unaware of how close to the island the jellyfish were nine Juan lazama and Juan Lopez just one week after the famous One World Trade Center building also known as the Freedom Tower opened in Manhattan in 2014 a pair of window washers became stranded 69 stories above street level during their shift it wasn't long before all eyes were on 41-year-old Juan lizama and 33-year-old Juan Lope pets as a crowd of onlookers gathered below and news helicopters appeared in the air 32-year-old James McDonald who witnessed the ordeal from the 31st floor office of a nearby building told the New York Times that he first realized something was a miss when he noticed that the window washing platform was perched at an odd angle as he watched the perilous situation unfold the rig fell even more the accident was reportedly caused by an equipment malfunction which caused the four cables that raised and load with the rig to work out of sync with one another slack built up on one side causing the platform to become uneven eventually to the point of hanging almost vertically as they waited for rescue to arrive Laz and Lopez crouched on the higher end of the Ring they remained calm while firefighters cut a hole in a 68th floor window from inside and helped them to safety less than 90 minutes after the first call for help came in the workers were out of Harm's Way eight Monica Lazo a skiing trip with friends at the Heavenly Ski Resort in Lake Taho California went terribly arai in early 20124 when Monica Lazo decided around 5:00 p.m. that she was too tired for another run an employee directed her to a gondola to take her down the hill and the lift stalled halfway through Monica's descent she didn't have her phone with her so she tried screaming for help whenever she saw an employee Monica continued yelling until she l lost her voice but nobody heard her leaving her stranded in midair inside the unheated capsule she remained stunk there overnight in freezing temperatures and more than 15 hours had passed by the time a worker activated the lift the next day enabling her to finally reach safety as the hours passed Monica stayed as warm as she could by rubbing her hands and feet together in the meantime her friends noticed they couldn't find her and reported her missing to the Eldorado County Sheriff's Office when she finally got off the lift she was treated and released by emergency responders given the condition she was stranded in she was lucky she managed to stay warm enough to avoid a medical emergency fire and rescue spokesperson Kim George told local station KC that this was the first call of its kind that she had dealt with in more than 20 years on the job in a statement the resort reassured the public that the incident was being taken seriously and that an investigation was underway seven George and Lucas harders Iowa father George harders and his son Lucas didn't know what was happening at first when a van struck their John Deere tractor in rural coryon the fatherson duo were pulling a hay rck westbound along a County Highway when a delivery van pulled out from behind them and into the eastbound Lane in an attempt to pass the tractor another van was approaching in the eastbound Lane and the two vehicles crashed head on one of the vans then strug the tractor and dragged it 150 ft before finally coming to stop in a ditch George and Lucas were incredibly lucky that the tractor didn't flip over and that they weren't seriously injured especially because Lucas was riding on the tractor's Fender when the crash occurred speaking with local station who13 after the accident George said that the first sign of something being wrong came when the tractor's engine suddenly sped up he said he killed the engine but had no control over the tractor's steering as it was dragged along the pavement when it was all over he looked down the road and saw that one of the Vans had overturned luckily the drivers of both Vans also managed to avoid Serious injury and while the Collision broke the hardest tractor at a time when they needed it for harvesting hay both Father and Son felt thankful to be alive and healthy in hindsight George said that if the van had hit a different part of the tractor a few feet away both he and Lucas would have been killed six fatally fast Ferris wheel one woman died and two others were injured courtesy of a malfunctioning Ferris wheel at the Fiji Showcase in 2023 21-year-old Kamal Kavita Kuma was rushed to the hospital along with the other two victims aged 19 and 38 she succumb to her injuries prompting an investigation into what caused the accident a man who was on the ride shortly before the incident occurred wrote in a Facebook post that the ferris wheel was moving ridiculously fast he also explained that as he boarded the ride with his family an employee coached them on how to lean in order to properly balance their seats it was a red flag to the man who found it odd that passengers had to do anything other than just sit in the seat and enjoy the ride feeling unsafe at the rides High speeed the man asked employees to let him and his family off they got off the ride and the women who fell out the ride took their Gondola the disembarked family was watching when they fell shortly thereafter in his Facebook post the man accused the employees of not having control over the ride he described the site as a crime scene and said he was speaking out to warn others after realizing how close he and his loved ones came to deadly danger five Vicky Patterson 35-year-old British TV personality Vicky Pon was riding in an Uber along Britain's A1 on highway to a dinner date with her fiance urken Ramadan in 2023 when they noticed that the car's check engine light was on not long after that the vehicle began to make concerning noises Patterson would later write in a social media post that the driver pulled over and reassured the couple that everything was fine and to stay in the car even though there was Smoke spewing from the vehicle's back end the driver probably didn't realize how dangerous the situation was and didn't want the passenger passers to endanger themselves by getting out of the car along a busy highway suddenly the car burst into flames Patterson and radam exited the vehicle and the next thing they knew a police officer was yelling at them to get even further away from it a video Patterson later posted on Instagram showed that the entire vehicle had exploded making it clear that she and Ramadan would have been severely injured or worse if they hadn't gotten out of the car and moved away when they did determined not to let the near-death experience ruin their dat night the couple managed to catch a ride with a bypasser who offered to take them as far as the next train station it ended up taking them 2 hours to get where they were going but they eventually reached the restaurant and continued their night as usual for Richard Branson in 2018 British business magnate Richard Branson climbed mon Blanc with his son Sam for a charity event Rising 15766 ft above sea level the Alpine mountain is the tallest Summit in Western Europe as they approached the summit they narrowly avoided a rock forall which sent rocks the size of cars barreling down the mountain Branson who was 68 years old at the time later stated that if the rockfall had started just 3 seconds earlier it would have definitely killed him Sam and the group of people they were climbing with the brush with death occurred in a Zone known as the Gully of death Branson told Sky news that a portion of Cliff further up the mountain had broken off causing massive rocks to rain down from every angle the group took Refuge behind large Boulders and ended up taking a helicopter down from the mountain due to the dangerous conditions three freak mid- lunch choking accident a woman named Hosea was eating turkey at her home in gal the co Spain in November 2023 when she suddenly began to choke on her food with nobody around to help she had no choice but to act on her own to save her life as Hosea gasped for air she instinctively grabbed her toothbrush and tried to dislodge the meat from her throat with it but she lost her grip on the 8 in toothbrush and swallowed it along with the turkey meat she later told news flash that the ordeal was surprisingly painless but now that problem one the choking was solved she now had to deal with problem two getting her toothbrush out of her body before it posed a serious danger to her safety Isaiah said that when she got to the emergency room and explained what had happened shocked staff members surrounded her in disbelief but the x-rays proved that she was telling the truth and after waiting for several hours she finally underwent a 40-minute procedure to remove the toothbrush while under anesthesia doctors managed to pull the toothbrush back out through haer's esophagus sparing her from having to be cut over open she woke up with the toothbrush sitting on her bedside table and later described feeling thankful that she could breathe two Jesse Gregory during what began as a normal Patrol shift in early 2024 Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Jesse Gregory pulled over a driver along Interstate 40 in the Oklahoma City suburb of Yukon 20 minutes later toward the end of the stop a vehicle slammed into the SUV Gregory had pulled over while he stood at the passenger side window talking to its occupants the force of the Collision shoved the SUV forward and sent Gregory flying head first toward the ground while the vehicle that hid the SUV flipped over several times scattering debris across the road dash cam footage showed the trooper rolling over on the ground and almost instantly rising to his feet miraculously uninjured as he ran in the opposite direction of the crash the Oklahoma Highway Patrol shared the video on social media as a reminder to the public to slow down and move over when they see a traffic stop in progress in the post the agency revealed that everyone involved in the wreck escaped with just minor injuries but they were lucky just weeks earlier Gregory's colleague and neighbor Deputy Jose tahua Mendoza was hid by a vehicle along the same stretch of highway Landing him in a long-term rehab facility with severe injuries Gregory later told local station kwtv news9 that he didn't even remember rolling to his feet he said that he hoped that this was the scare of his career and said that it was going to take some time to overcome the Mental effects of the incident even though he walked away with just a scrape to one of his arms and now for number one but if you want to hear more bizarre and crazy stories stay tuned after the video for some more content one train surfing near tragedy in recent years train surfing has become a major Trend among teens and the consequences are often deadly one Australian adolescent was lucky to walk away alive after perching himself on the back of a train as it left a station in Northern Sydney late one night in 2023 shocking bystander footage showed the team clinging to the outside of the train as It sped away just a month later a young man died and his friend was left in critical condition after falling off the roof of a New York City subway train anyone who dares to even try train surfing is indisputably putting their life on the line which means that anyone who walks away from it without Serious injury or worse is extremely lucky speaking with Australia's 9 News Sydney train CEO Matt longlett explained that the city's trains weigh up to 440 tons and travel at speeds as high as 70 mph there's virtually nothing a person can do to to save themselves if they fall off a moving train and into its path and yet it seems to only be getting more popular among young people who do it for both the thrill and the social media clout train serving also continues to run strong even after Sydney and other cities launch crackdowns in an effort to curb the trend eight lazette Pagan lazette Pagan was driving to work in Essex County New Jersey one morning in August 2022 when the roadway was flooded by a broken water man in a nearby park flowing at nearly 25,000 gallons 94,6 35 L per minute the water rapidly eroded the soil triggering a sinkhole that swallowed up lizette's car she later told news2 New Jersey that she could see water pooling on the road but the three vehicles in front of her made it through so she thought she could too she was sorely mistaken though without warning the terrified woman found herself struggling to escape from the merge vehicle she removed her seat belt and fought to get the door open wide enough to slip out luckily Lizette managed to swim up towards safety but the close call left her traumatized she told local news station ktvq that she couldn't sleep afterward because she kept feeling like she was drowning and she hoped the lingering fear would eventually go away lizette's car sank so deep below water that a crane had to remove it from the sinkhole the waterlog vehicle was full of rocks and other debris to add to the stress she found herself fighting an uphill battle in her attempts to get help paying for a new car to drive because lizette's insurance policy lacks sufficient coverage the company refused to cover her losses she hired an attorney to pursue compensation from Essex County but these types of cases hardly ever succeed according to experts making it more than likely lazette would be on her own buying a new vehicle seven David ortis in 2019 former Red Sox sluger David ortis was enjoying a night out in the Dominican rep public when he was shot in the back during a nearly fatal case of mistaken identity at a club the bullet exited through the 43-year-old retired baseball player's abdomen and injured another man TV personality HOA Lopez who was seated at the same table Artis had emergency surgery and was hospitalized for 6 weeks while investigators worked on the case they determined that the shooter wanted to kill ortis his cousin 60 David Fernandez who was with him at the club that night the men were sitting beside each other and were dressed similarly so the gunman mtic autis for Fernandez based on a blurry photo one of his associates had given him detectives concluded that the hit was ordered by a fugitive from Mexico's golf cartel named Victor Hugo Gomez who wanted Fernandez dead for turning him into narcotics investigators years before a total of 14 suspects were arrested in connection to the case including the man who took the blurry photo unsatisfied with law enforcement findings ortis hired for former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis to carry out an independent investigation on the shooting in his findings which were released to the public in early 2022 Davis accused alleged drug kingpin Cesar the abuser parter of putting a hit on ortis because he felt disrespected Dominican authorities continue to stand by their version of events despite these Revelations six Cody and Courtney Campell just 5 months after buying their home in Santi California back in 2021 one hulie Weds Cody and Courtney Campbell were suddenly homeless the couple were at work when a small airplane barreled through their neighborhood killing two people and crashing into two homes one of which being theirs of course the Campbell were grateful they weren't home during the Collision they were also glad corney's mother had decided to stop by and pick up their dog a few hours earlier and was gone by the time of the crash the house was then engulfed in flames if anyone had been there they likely would have died and it wasn't lost on Cody and Courtney that they Courtney's mom and their dog were all very lucky but the couple's experience as firsttime home buyers certainly didn't pan out like they' hoped and it's only human to think about their loss and feel disappointed on their behalf even if the house is Trivial compared to the value of their lives along with losing their home the cbbl lost a lot of other things they worked hard for and items that had sentimental value including Cody's wedding band which he left at home for safekeeping while wearing a silicon ring to his job it's also fair to wonder if a little bit of bad luck was at play considering how rare it is for planes to crash into houses five Miguel Angel Torres for 14 years Miguel Angel Torres lived in Austin Texas as an undocumented migrant without any major run-ins with the law although he was in the US illegally he lived a fairly respectable lifestyle as a married father of three and a hardworking cook in a local restaurant in their of the American dream Miguel and his wife Irma hope to someday open up their own food trunk when former president Donald Trump was inaugurated during early 2017 immigrant communities throughout the country braced themselves for raids by authorities looking for undocumented residence in a bit too deflect attention away from her family Irma paid off some tickets for her brother Jose Manuel Perez who was also undocumented but to her surprise authorities targeted Miguel Irma told the Texas Tribune that her husband was on his way to drop off a box of Valentine's Day chocolates at their daughter's school when agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement ice wearing plain clothes stomped him and asked if he was Irma's brother Perez he said that he wasn't Perez but the agents took him into custody anyway they carted him off to an immigration Detention Facility about 150 M away 4 days before herma had put her address on the payment for her brother's tickets it was the only connection she could think of that might have caused the mistaken identity while the outcome of the situation is unclear it's one of many incidents of authorities baselessly detaining immigrants during Trump's Administration in that sense The Misfortune the Torres family experienced while trying to give their kids a better life wasn't unique four Jason and Jenny K's Lawrence British couble Jason and Jenny K's Lawrence Rose to infamy as the world's unluckiest couple when reports claimed they were visiting as tourists in three different cities during three separate terrorist attacks the pair were on a sseeing trip in New York City during the 911 attacks on the World Trade Center towers back in 2001 it was the worst ever terrorist threat on us soil claiming more than 2,700 lives in July 2005 the couple booked a hotel in London for a few nights just a day into the visit four terrorists bombed the London subway killing 52 people and injuring 700 more 3 years later in 2008 Jason and Jenny took a vacation to the bustling city of Mumbai during the trip armed terrorists opened fire on a hotel and railway station killing over 174 people but these reports about the world's unluckiest couple were challenged in a Verve magazine article by Jamie Christian deas who claims to be good friends with Jason K's Lawrence according to him it all started when the pair arrived in Mumbai in 2008 days after the terrorist shooting during a casual conversation with the reporter Jason mentioned how he was in New York City weeks after the 9/11 attacks the couple said they were from England but there was no actual discussion about the 2005 London bombings the next thing Jason and Jenny knew news outlets were publishing wild stories about them being present during three of the decade's worst attacks Jason initially tried to get the stories taken down and had some success but the tale took on a life of its own the artist continue to circulate and the couple still suffers from unwanted attention making them wildly unlucky for vastly different reasons than the news reports claim three Melanie Martinez living along the Southeastern US Coast comes with the risk of losing your home to a hurricane Melanie Martinez learned this lesson at a young age in 1965 when Hurricane Betsy blew in from the Gulf of Mexico and wrecked her Louisiana home it's not even entirely straight for someone in a vulnerable area to lose two homes to hurricanes Martinez joined that club in 1985 courtesy of hurricane Juan but unlike most even in storm brone regions catastrophic events continue to destroy her residence it happened for a third time in 1998 during Hurricane Georgia and for the fourth time in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina Martina has got a chance to share her experiences in 2012 when her home in the rural town of braithway south of New Orleans was selected to get a $20,000 makeover on the A&E reality series hideous homes host Eric stroma and his team spent a week transforming Martinez's house into a comfortable modern space complete with a sewing room for her to indulge in her favorite hobby she loved the results but she unfortunately didn't get to enjoy them for long just a few weeks after the episode add on TV Hurricane Isaac struck the region and the storm completely flooded the home traffic Martinez her elderly mother their three dogs and five cats in the Attic luckily they were all rescued but the house was beyond saving making it the fifth home Martinez is lost to a hurricane Melanie told the guardian that she stayed in the area because she was born there and it was the only place she knew as an actual home but she admitted that after enduring so much destruction she wanted her next property to at least be on a hill where it would be less at risk from flooding two Daniel OT one morning in 2006 an armed Intruder broke into the Ohio home of 31-year-old Daniel OT and tied his hands up with dug tape OT managed to free himself and fight back against the attacker but received a fatal Bullet to the chest it was the County's first homicide in over 6 years so the case quickly became a who done in situation as detectives work to identify the pp there were no signs of force entry or robbery and the 911 C placed by OD girlfriend was never captured since the recording device was broken and while the scene contained every Hallmark of an ordered hit detectives couldn't figure out why anyone would want to kill Daniel ot 6 months later investigators concluded that he was targeted by an organized crime group in a disturbing case of mistaken identity they believed the killer meant to go after a different man named Daniel OT a notorious car thief who helped with an investigation that landed the group's Leader Joseph Rosebrook behind prison bars even after realizing this law enforcement struggled to get anyone with information about the crime to talk out of fear that they would suffer a similar fate they maintain their silence in 2015 after almost a decade of investigating authorities arrested three suspects in connection to W's death Joseph Rosebrook was accused of ordering the hit from behind bars his brother Carl allegedly arranged the payment for the murder and a man named Chan South was charged with actually carrying out the attack Joseph Rosebrook was sentenced to life in prison and the Hitman South received a 28-year sentence while KL Rosebrook got away with no time and a $1,000 fine but no punishment could possibly undo the damage that was caused by this Trio's actions including the murder of a completely innocent man who died terrified fighting for his life in his own home one ctis motakis as Spain grappled with the crippling effects of an economic recession back in 201 the country's Lottery jackpot reached 740 million e $788 million us residents of SoDo pulled their money to buy lottery tickets as part of their annual Christmas Lottery a tradition they started in 1812 with the agreement that everyone who pitched in would collect a portion of the winnings if they hit the jackpot the entire Village participated except ctis MRIs a Greek filmmaker who' moved to sodeto only 8 years earlier M Takis explained that he didn't chip in since his house was technically outside of the village and because unlike the born and bred locals he wasn't obsessed with the lottery he was probably just as shocked as everyone else when sedeta won the jackpot and everyone but him collected a piece of the prize money instead of being bitter or overwhelmed with regret Mr taka started documenting the lives of the families who benefited from these winnings 3 years later in 2014 he told the Greek reporter that not much had changed for the most part people lived similar Lifestyles as they had before coming Rich MRIs pointed out that the most notable difference was that less young people were leaving for opportunities outside of town not that they had enough money to create their own opportunities nearby while some considered midso tagis to be the world's unluckiest man for missing out on the lottery Bounty he didn't seem upset about it in fact he referred to his loss as a gift from heaven for giving him the opportunity to capture the Winner's experiences on camera midak has said that he planned to make a documentary featuring local families who discuss how the sudden windfall completely change their lives thanks for watching would you rather survive a harrowing brush with death that leaves you mentally traumatized or have all your most treasured possessions stolen including things with sentimental value that can't be replaced let us know in the comments below and remember to subscribe see you soon bye

Channel: World List

Views: 4,644

Keywords: world list, gone, wrong, terribly, horribly, people, stories, gone wrong, people stories, gone terribly wrong, gone horribly wrong, stupid, dumbest, crazy, dumn, dumbest people, stupid people, crazy people, dumb people, lose, losing, life, fail

Id: mkGq-hKH-7g

Length: 40min 57sec (2457 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 10 2024