The (Un)Luckiest Man On Earth
Believe it or not, there was once a man named Frane Selak, who seemed to have been the luckiest—or unluckiest, depending on how you look at it—man on Earth! Frane was born in 1929 and lived quite an ordinary life. But in 1957, his extraordinary tale began when a bus he was on swerved off the road and into a river. Frane managed to get out and swam to shore.
Next, while he was on a train ride from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik, a boulder fell onto the tracks, causing the train to jump off the rails and crash into an icy river! Frane managed to break the compartment window and was then saved by some residents of a nearby village. In 1963, Frane got on a flight to visit his sick mother. Then, the plane suffered a technical malfunction and started to lose altitude. But before crashing into a boulder, the plane door was blown off, and Frane got sucked out of the plane. Despite the slim odds, he landed on a haystack, ultimately saving his life.
That's not the end of it, though! In 1970, Frane was driving when his car suddenly caught fire. He managed to get out of the car and run to a safe distance before the flames reached the fuel tank. In 1973, the fuel pump of the car he was driving started leaking oil into the engine, which resulted in flames shooting through the air vents. While his hair was singed, Frane was not seriously injured.
In 1995, Frane was hit by a bus and survived. A year after that, a truck almost crashed into his car. Frane avoided a collision by swerving and crashing into a guardrail. However, the fence gave way, and his car fell into the ravine. But Frane (who wasn't wearing a seatbelt at the time) jumped out of the car window and managed to cling onto a tree on a slope before the vehicle tipped over and crashed.
And then it seemed that his luck had started to turn around. A few days after turning 73, Frane won a 6.5 million kuna jackpot (around $905,000) after playing the lottery! He bought a house and a holiday home, then shared the rest of his winnings with his loved ones. Oh, and one last fun fact: Frane Selak was married five times!
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