Cracked.com: The 7 Most Bizarrely Unlucky People Who Ever Lived
Alex Cipriano, Tim Parent: We’re not saying these are the unluckiest people in history; we realize the world is full of starving children and cancer victims. But sometimes you see people who have weird, one-in-a-million instances of bad luck, often over and over again, and you can’t help but wonder if they didn’t piss off a Gypsy at some point.
We’re talking about people like…
Roy Sullivan: He was struck by lightning. Seven times.
Statistically, getting hit by lightning is a three-thousand to one chance. Therefore getting hit seven times is about twenty-two septillion to one. That’s 22,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. To 1.
Still not long enough odds for Roy Sullivan, who was a U.S. park ranger in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park. He was, in fact, hit by lightning seven different freaking times.
Some “scientists” theorize that Sullivan’s occupation as a park ranger in an area prone to thunderstorms might have something to do with his problem. We prefer to think of him as an undiscovered X-Man with the worst superpower ever.
