# You thought you had bad luck... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637 "2009-03-24T20:20:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/1 "2009-03-24T20:20:30Z")
[This guy](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/24/international/i022440D78.DTL) must have set some sort of record for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. On August 6, 1945, he was on a business trip to Hiroshima. He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki in time for the atomic bombing there on August 9. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/2 "2009-03-24T20:31:49Z")
Like a bad marksman, we keep missing the target! Maybe we can nuke him from orbit. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/3 "2009-03-24T20:35:42Z")
On the plus side,That dude doesn’t havre to listen to anybody else’s sob story for more than 10 seconds before he can shut em up. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Tompkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@Jeff\_Tompkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Tompkins)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/4 "2009-03-24T20:37:09Z")
That is the type of person you just aren’t sure you’d want to be on an airplane with. He has either the worst or best luck in the world. It’s hard to tell which. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/5 "2009-03-24T20:47:40Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > On the plus side,That dude doesn’t havre to listen to anybody else’s sob story for more than 10 seconds before he can shut em up. Two words: George Costanza. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/6 "2009-03-24T21:37:45Z")
“Details of Yamaguchi’s health problems were not released.” Not to make light of this, but he’s _93 years old_. is there some expectation that being at both bombings has decreased his chances of making it to 100? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/7 "2009-03-24T21:51:42Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > “Details of Yamaguchi’s health problems were not released.” > > Not to make light of this, but he’s _93 years old_. is there some expectation that being at both bombings has decreased his chances of making it to 100? Or possibly he’ll live forever! And have superpowers! ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/8 "2009-03-25T01:07:02Z")
I thought it odd that the writer felt the need to explain that Japan is the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks. I’m only 27, but… are we really at the point where people might not _know_ that?!? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/9 "2009-03-25T02:00:06Z")
I vaguely remember about an Amazon explorer who disturbed a wasps’ nest in the jungle. Taking painful bites, he decided to dive into the Amazon … where the piranas ate him. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/10 "2009-03-25T15:03:31Z")
His vacation to Hawai a few years previous wasn’t nearly as tranquil and friendly as he had hoped either 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/11 "2009-03-25T15:29:06Z")
I would have been more impressed if he had been in Dresden for the bombings there too. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/12 "2009-03-25T15:44:40Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > I would have been more impressed if he had been in Dresden for the bombings there too. Poor guy missed his connection. They even lost his luggage. ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/13 "2009-03-25T22:46:06Z")
His luck doesn’t sound bad at all to me. (His _timing_ certainly sucks.) He’s still here, and he made it to 93; that’s not doing badly at all. Now, if he’d survived Hiroshima and then died at Nagasaki…_that_ would be terrible luck. Missing both–not bad at all. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/14 "2009-03-25T22:58:22Z")
He heard The Dark Rider discussing some really pressing appointments. You’d make travel arrangements, too. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/15 "2009-03-26T01:56:24Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > I thought it odd that the writer felt the need to explain that Japan is the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks. > > I’m only 27, but… are we really at the point where people might not _know_ that?!? In boot camp, a Marine friend of mine was given a manual about weapons and warfare to study. In the “Atomic, Biological & Chemical Weapons” section, the shortest chapter was only one sentence long- it read something like “The United States of America is the only country to have ever used a nuclear weapon as an act of war.” But yeah- this needs to be pointed out? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/16 "2009-03-26T02:36:39Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > I thought it odd that the writer felt the need to explain that Japan is the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks. > > I’m only 27, but… are we really at the point where people might not _know_ that?!? Well I always found it a bit odd to see the same sort of reverent posters of Einstein with E= MC[sup]2[/sup] on the train as you’d see in the US. So far as I understand it, upon discovering that particular mathematical formula, Einstein went on to discover the possibility of the atom bomb and immediately [wrote to the United States’ president](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein-Szil%C3%A1rd_letter) to inform him of this. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/17 "2009-03-26T11:13:14Z")
Oh, yeah? WELL… Let \*me \*tell you about \*MY \*day… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/18 "2009-03-26T12:16:25Z")
Wow, he must either think he’s indestructible, or that god really has it out to him (but thankfully has a bad aim). However, I thought this would be about [Frane Selak](http://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/17/the-worlds-unluckiest-man/), who reportedly survived a train derailment, falling from a plane without a parachute (he landed in a haystack), a bus accident, his car catching fire (twice), being hit by a bus and jumping from his car as it went over a cliff to win one million dollars in the lottery. Somehow, I want the two of them to team up and, I dunno, fight crime by disdainfully disregarding it into submission. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/19 "2009-03-27T03:39:14Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > However, I thought this would be about [Frane Selak](http://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/17/the-worlds-unluckiest-man/), who reportedly survived a train derailment, falling from a plane without a parachute (he landed in a haystack), a bus accident, his car catching fire (twice), being hit by a bus and jumping from his car as it went over a cliff to win one million dollars in the lottery. While impressive, to some extent I think that probably says more about the quality of construction and driving in Croatia than anything. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-thought-you-had-bad-luck/490637/20 "2009-03-28T02:10:05Z")
What did he get for Christmas?