- [Narrator] Sometimes,
it feels like lady luck only has eyes for a select few people, and when the most fortunate
among us luck out, they really luck out. Whether they're protected
by guardian angels or just in the right
place at the right time, here are some people who
were incredibly lucky. (playful music) - Amazing! - [Narrator] Nowadays,
losing your smartphone can feel like losing a limb. And in some situations,
a simple slip of the hand can spell certain doom for
your precious handheld device. Only the bravest, or stupidest people would take their phone
out on a rollercoaster to snap a few pics while
traveling through the air at 130 kilometers per hour. One daring rider on the Shambhala ride in PortAventura theme park was incredibly lucky after
disobeying the no phones rule when a man a few seats behind was able to catch their falling iPhone with his lightning-fast reflexes. Now, that's some serious skill. It's scary to think how many times we might've cheated death in our lifetime. But for this lucky boy, it really seems like it
just wasn't his time yet. The poor dude looks disgruntled as he kicks some trash about, but he's incredibly
fortunate to have walked away from that fence when he did as a car comes hurtling
through it just seconds later. Whether his spider-senses
were tingling or not, it seems like this kid
really needed a win that day. Speed cameras sometimes
seem to come out of nowhere, and before you know it, you're strapped with a hefty fine or even a driver's awareness course. An unlikely hero stepped between one lucky driver and the law, though, when the speeding camera
only managed to capture this. This vigilant feathered
friend appeared just in time to block the driver's
license plate from view. And although the man will probably never get
to thank the bird for it, he might not be so lucky next time. In 2007, an adopted 22-year-old
man named Steve Flaig was finally reunited with his birth mother in the luckiest way possible. Flaig was about to give up the search when he realized he'd
been incorrectly spelling his birth surname wrong, and by using an online search engine, he discovered that his mother's address was less than a mile from the Lowe's store where he worked as a truck driver. After sharing the news with his boss, Flaig discovered that his
mother, Chris Tallady, worked as a cashier at
the same store all along, and the two colleagues had unknowingly exchanged polite hellos when passing each other in the canteen. In 2019, one American homeowner was surprised to find a massive boulder sitting on their front porch
like a strange gift from above. As it turns out, the
reality of the situation was far luckier as this huge stone could've destroyed their house. Wildfires in Utah burned down a tree which was supporting the boulders weight, causing it to roll a quarter
of a mile down the street before miraculously stopping
just feet from the front porch. I guess that's one super-effective method of instant home delivery. This photo may look like
an action movie still, but it's actually living proof that sometimes, you just
have to be in the right place when disaster strikes. This incredibly lucky car owner happened to be on the safest patch of road when two consecutive
earthquakes hit Alaska in November 2018. As the second 7.0 seismic rumble destroyed the road around them, their fortunate vehicle
was left standing proud. I just wonder how the
owner leaped to safety to snap the winning shot. In 2007, a wheelchair-bound
man in Paw Paw, Michigan beat all odds when he survived
a 55-mile-per-hour ride while attached to the
front of a semi-truck Ben Carpenter, who suffers
from muscular dystrophy, had been crossing the road
when the tuck pulled out and unknowingly bumped his chair, getting it stuck in the metal grate as it continued onto the highway. Carpenter traveled two whole miles before undercover police spotted
him and alerted the driver, and he's lucky to be alive today with a great story to tell. The people in this video will probably never take
their eyes off the sky after surviving this bizarre incident. Ice can sometimes form on
the outside of an aircraft cruising at high altitude and can slip off the plane making what looks like
a freak weather incident to those on the ground below. The area in this video is
under a heavy air traffic route by Heathrow airport, but thankfully, of 2.5
million flights traveling through UK airspace, only around 25 falling ice
incidents are reported annually, making this lucky escape
also incredibly rare. Speaking of falling objects, check out this close call caused after a huge tree branch broke and miraculously peeled
down a car exterior without breaking any glass
or entering the vehicle. Now, I'll bet the driver could
hardly believe their eyes when assessing the bizarre situation, and they're incredibly lucky that the only damage the branch caused was this oddly satisfying cross-section. In 2017, expert piano
tuner Martin Blackhouse was called to tune a 110-year-old piano that had been donated to Bishops Community College in Shropshire when he made a
once-in-a-lifetime discovery. After noticing that the
keys felt unusually stiff, the technician found
several cloth-bound packets containing 913 gold
sovereigns and half-sovereigns dating from 1847 to 1915. The hoard, which amounts to
over 13 pounds of gold bullion, was declared a national treasure
and property of the Crown, but Blackhouse still earned
himself a share of a reward large enough to retire early. Parenting is hard, but often instinct is
there to lead the way, and this mother may have
saved her child's life with her lightning-fast reflexes. The barrier in this video is hollow, with a large drop into the stairwell. After taking her eye off
the ball for a split second, the curious tot very nearly falls through some super-wide railings before his mother scrambles
to grab him by the ankle, and she even saves her iPhone too. Thankfully, people nearby
are there to help haul him up as he dangles above the staircase below, and she receives an applause
for her quick-thinking. If you ask me, though, this looks like a lawsuit
waiting to happen. Most mornings are stressful enough without having a mini heart-attack thanks to a close shave like this. Losing your car keys down a street drain is a real achievement, even
for the clumsiest among us, and these people should be thankful that the width and angle of the fall was on their side this time. After all, no one wants to be on all fours with a coat hanger and
chewing gum at 9 a.m. trying to hook those suckers out. True thrill seekers
will go to great lengths to get their fix of adrenaline, but safety still comes first. One tourist was incredibly lucky in 2018 while visiting a Chinese adventure park after his safety harness snapped while leaping across a bridge 500 feet above the ground The attraction known as Ji Xian Fei Yue, or Extreme Leaps, which allows daredevils to
experience high-altitude thrills, was temporarily shut down after
the clip went viral online. He may have escaped unharmed, but this man came dangerously close to a fatal free fall. For many people, swimming
in the open ocean is already a scary prospect, but can you imagine
emerging from the water to discover something like this? In 2014, 14-year-old Mikaela Medina was swimming in the murky waters off the coast of Galveston, Texas when she felt something bump her back. But it wasn't until
her mother examined her that she realized her
incredibly lucky escape. Between 1911 to 2013,
only 15 shark attacks and one fatality were
recorded in the area. And although Medina was only
treated for puncture wounds on her upper back, who knows how close she
was to becoming shark food. It's not often we get the
chance to save someone's life, but who could imagine doing it with just a casual tap on the shoulder? Seconds after his brief encounter
with a passing stranger, this man in Adana in Turkey manages to narrowly avoid being
fatally hit by a metal gate as it swings in his direction
while a van passes through. The bewildered man may
never meet his savior again, but the chances are, he's either
an incognito time-traveler or a real-life guardian angel. Finding a scratch or
bump on your parked car can be a real bummer, but one Libyan man had
an even bigger shock when he discovered this
after seeking shelter from shelling in Benghazi in 2014. Instead of exploding on impact, a live mortar shell had
somehow punched a hole in the bodywork of his vehicle before becoming wedged in the rubber tire. Fawwaz Qasim Kassis recalled how he initially ran from the scene, but couldn't resist
returning a few days later to snap a risky photo of
the unbelievable feat. Day-to-day living doesn't prepare us for truly life-threatening situations, so it's hard to imagine how we might react when instinct kicks in. But this man truly embodied
the fight-or-flight impulse when he somehow managed to outrun a falling transmission tower. Running to the side might
seem like the logical solution to an unthinkable scenario like this, but the possibility of being struck by the charged electrical cables
could prove just as fatal. Besides, giving Usain
Bolt a run for his money in this action movie style
escape is far more awesome. An over-the-top explosion
is all that's missing. Most smartphones aren't built to survive even the smallest drops, and almost everybody has
suffered a cracked screen at some point. So dropping it while
speeding down the highway should be a one-way ticket to a new phone. While riding a Honda Grom and filming on a headcam with friends, this man miraculously
caught an iPhone in his lap after it fell out of the
pocket of the guy ahead and bounced up off the pavement. The owner is incredibly lucky
to have the phone returned, and the odds of catching a
moment like this on camera are surely one-in-a-million. If there's one thing worth
fearing, it's sinkholes. These natural disasters
can happen anywhere, swallowing anything whole in an instant, so the odds of surviving
one as narrowly as this are pretty damn crazy. This van may have been in the
wrong place at the wrong time, but it's lucky that the
sinkhole wasn't much wider, or the driver may not
have been able to escape by kicking the windshield
in and crawling out. Still, the cameraman is tempting fate by standing so close to the edge. Luck like this doesn't
usually strike twice, buddy. Staying alert is important because you just don't
know when a flying car is going to come out of nowhere, right? This lucky cyclist
happened to have stopped at the perfect place on the crossing moments before a car comes barrel-rolling through the air toward him, narrowly clearing the shell-shocked man as it comes to a halt a few feet away. Unsurprisingly, the guy on the scooter is totally frozen in
amazement after witnessing such an amazing feat. Whoever said luck isn't a superpower? Cars aren't the only flying objects worth watching out for when
you're in survival mode, and these cyclists
captured the insane moment a deer ran out in front of a car and flew off the bonnet towards them. Over 1.5 million road
accidents involving deer are reported annually, with 42,000 deer killed in the UK alone, while around 200 people are
also killed as a result, which is no surprise
considering the impact they can make on a vehicle. This particular total deer miss was incredibly lucky
for everyone involved, well, apart from the deer. As the bikes back-camera
also shows the moment the animal hits the road
causing the car behind to stop just in the nick of time. It's normal to feel a bit uneasy when driving behind a lorry
carrying a large load, and anyone who's seen the
"Final Destination" movies will be sure to keep a good distance, but very rarely things do go wrong. Just take a look at this horrifying image of a car which experienced
this nightmare first-hand as a huge sheet of corrugated iron slid off the back of a truck, piercing the car from front-to-back. Thankfully, there was no
one in the passenger seat and the driver managed to escape unharmed, or this could've been one
seriously unlucky situation. As if that wasn't terrifying enough, just imagine the horror of
an ax flying through the air towards you on the highway. This was the reality for one passenger in Massachusetts in 2014 when the unsecured weapon became dislodged from a landscaping truck ahead on route 95 as it hurtled toward the car. Thankfully, the ax only went
halfway through the windshield and no one was hurt. But police warned that if the driver had been over the speed limit, the outcome could've been very different. After experiencing something
like this and surviving, I'm pretty sure your
luck might just be spent. Which of these seriously fortunate people do you think was the luckiest? Have you ever been as lucky? Let me know in the comments
below, and thanks for watching! (gentle music)
