Unbelievable strokes of luck...

NoQuarter · 27-03-2010 11:19PM #1

So about 5 years ago I had a little moped to get me around as you do. One day i decided to drive into town (which exact town is not relevant). So i got to town, parked the bike on the footpath with about 10 other bikes, bent down to put the chain around the wheel and off i went for a browse.

So a little while later i was in HMV and i put my hand in my pocket for something and low and behold i realised my keys were missing! Trying to remain calm i told my mates i had probably left my keys in the ignition of the bike (which although quite stupid is actually easier to do than you'd think, ie hottie walks by as your locking the chain around the wheel = forgetting to take the keys out of the ignition). So I proceeded to head very fast back to where I had parked.

Of course, when i got there, I was minus one bike! Disaster! So off to the police station I went on the back of my friends moped. After reporting it stolen and pointing out on the camera where it was parked I hung my head in disgust and began the drive home.

On the way, for some strange reason I looked to my left as I passed a block of flats and happened to notice a group of lads standing there with bike helmets on their heads. So for absolutely no good reason at all we decided to drive in a little bit and have a closer look. Well low and behold, from a distance, there was my bike beside all these lads, it had never looked so good the little piece of sh1t!!

We ran straight out onto the main road, flagged down a police car as soon as one came by and by the time we drove back to the spot where the lads were in the back of the car lads had gone and the bike was just sitting there! All the local women came down to see what the commotion was and i told then i had stupidly left my keys in the ignition. A few minutes later, a lad of no more than about 7 or 8 years old came back with my keys in his hand! Keys back, not a scratch on the bike, hell they were just short of putting petrol in it for me!!!

Needless to say i played the lotto that day but wasnt that lucky!

Any other stories of amazing luck? (or stupidity?)

scudzilla · 27-03-2010 11:23PM

I was moochin around town about 5 years ago and some dope had left his keys in a moped.....

NoQuarter · 27-03-2010 11:23PM

scudzilla wrote: »

I was moochin around town about 5 years ago and some dope had left his keys in a moped.....

Very original!

scudzilla · 27-03-2010 11:28PM

king-stew wrote: »

Very original!

i thought so :rolleyes::rolleyes:

That's what boredom does to ya though

InkSlinger67 · 27-03-2010 11:35PM

I once had a heart attack in a hospital

Boy, was my face red!

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 27-03-2010 11:43PM

There a few years ago Vodafone fúcked up their charging for texts and calls and stuff so they refunded people with a few euro(usually no more than €8 from all the people I knew), but I got €42.:D

*yes I realise that they probably over charged me by that amount, but I dodn't notice it at all.

Juwwi · 27-03-2010 11:54PM

l was in the post office before and saw an old lady drop her purse.

her name and address was writen in it and there was €185 and 2 first class stamps inside.

l took the cash and posted back the purse to her with the stamps .

ctrl-alt-delete · 27-03-2010 11:59PM

I was on the ferry as a youngster heading over to Liverpool with my football team for a tournment. It was Under 12's so we were quite young and playing a game of army(hide and seek) kind of thing.

Anyways i decided to hide under a lifeboat, just outside the arcade. To my surprise and delight there was about 10 money bags (plastic bank type). I cant remember how much it was but i was delighted, i put them in my pockets took them to my bag, never breathed a word about it.

I've been living of the interest ever since (i wish ).

Columbia · 28-03-2010 12:14AM

A good few years ago my dog went missing. He was gone for about 5 or 6 days, and we were pretty much giving up on finding him. I'm a cyclist, and one day I was training going up a mountain a few miles from my house. For some reason, once I got to the top I decided to stop and take in the view for a moment, it was something I'd never done before and haven't done since. What do you know, sitting by a fence about 100 meters away was the dog! There's no way I'd have seen him if I had just cycled by. He was thinner, shivering, but essentially fine.

But before people think it's a happy story;

He got a belt of a car three weeks later, and that was that

jd007 · 28-03-2010 12:23AM

strokes of luck

*snigger*

CantGetNoSleep · 28-03-2010 01:10AM

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

I was on the ferry as a youngster heading over to Liverpool with my football team for a tournment. It was Under 12's so we were quite young and playing a game of army(hide and seek) kind of thing.

Anyways i decided to hide under a lifeboat, just outside the arcade. To my surprise and delight there was about 10 money bags (plastic bank type). I cant remember how much it was but i was delighted, i put them in my pockets took them to my bag, never breathed a word about it.

I've been living of the interest ever since (i wish ).

Haha that reminds me of the thread on here where someone found money in an apartment they were renting, anyone able to find that?

anniehoo · 28-03-2010 02:02AM

Columbia wrote: »

He was gone for about 5 or 6 days,
But before people think it's a happy story;

He got a belt of a car three weeks later, and that was that

I want to thank and not thank that story so im just goin to go

Sharpshooter · 28-03-2010 02:08AM

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

I once had a heart attack in a hospital

Boy, was my face red!

Of course it was.
I would have used :mad:.

Tommy_NDX · 28-03-2010 02:29AM

Years ago when i was a chap i was shopping with the mammy. She had parked the car in a multi story carpark and when we were returning to the car a couple of hours later she realises that she's lost the car keys.

We went to see was the car still there and spotted the keys sitting on the boot of the car. Needless to say she never told the ould lad.

Trashbat · 28-03-2010 02:29AM

I consider never deciding to buy a scooter quite lucky on my part.

Piriz · 28-03-2010 02:40AM

Trashbat wrote: »

I consider never deciding to buy a scooter quite lucky on my part.

Why's that?

Trashbat · 28-03-2010 02:42AM

Piriz wrote: »

Why's that?

Unstable motorised transport plus being a teenager multiplied by trying to impress girls equals crashing myself to death.

Davidius · 28-03-2010 02:50AM

A girl mistook me for somebody interesting and I got to talk to her for a whole 5 seconds before she realised. Man was that a good day, I bet that's what sex is like.

Piriz · 28-03-2010 03:00AM

Trashbat wrote: »

Unstable motorised transport plus being a teenager multiplied by trying to impress girls equals crashing myself to death.

Touché

Sofaspud · 28-03-2010 03:24AM

Tommy_NDX wrote: »

Years ago when i was a chap

Before the operation?

fullstop · 28-03-2010 03:37AM

Topped up €20 phone credit at the ATM a few years ago and got something like €190 credit....only 20 taken from my account.

Victor · 28-03-2010 05:01AM

Tommy_NDX wrote: »

Years ago when i was a chap i was shopping with the mammy. She had parked the car in a multi story carpark and when we were returning to the car a couple of hours later she realises that she's lost the car keys.

We went to see was the car still there and spotted the keys sitting on the boot of the car. Needless to say she never told the ould lad.

Not quite the same. Again in a car park, the brother locked the keys of his wife's car into the boot. €200 later and a discrete hole drilled in the boot, he doesn't tell the wife anything.

IvySlayer · 28-03-2010 06:09AM

Ohhhh I somehow read ''5 years ago'' to ''When I was 5 years old''

Stupid Australian Grand Prix :mad:

cafecolour · 28-03-2010 08:33AM

I do stupid **** all the time that has luckily not caused me any trouble yet.

For instance, not only did I have the bad habit of leaving my house keys in the door, 3 different times I've accidentally left the keys to the bar i was working in the door (on a busy public street) after opening it. Luckily no one ever took them.

Tommy_NDX · 28-03-2010 12:19PM

Sofaspud wrote: »

Before the operation?

Daddy?

weiland79 · 28-03-2010 12:19PM

I think my story comes under the heading of 'completly stupid'

A few years ago i lived in a city with an underground.After a night on the tiles and a skin full of booze i went off to get the train home.As i got to the platform my train was just leaving,so instead of waiting for the next train i decided to walk home.
Through the tunnel...
I remember sobering up about half way through in the pitch black and freaking the f*ck out and running blindly to the next platform.
I obviously made it,but every time i think of it i feel sick sick sick to my stomach.

So, incredibly lucky for still being alive,and incredibly stupid for...... well that doesn't really need an explanation does it?:(

4zn76tysfajdxp · 28-03-2010 12:22PM

lil_pip wrote: »

years ago when i was walkin home from school,along the foot path beside the canal,i was about 10 or 11 there was 4 knackers drinking cans, as i walked by one of them gave me an almighty boot in the hole and a slap across the face,i ran off an when i was a decent enough distance away i started walkin again,i was havin a little blub to myself with my hand on my boney little arse (boo hoo),when i got home my dad asked me why i was cryin,i told him the story and he said "jesus,you were lucky" does that count as being lucky?i would have preferred getting the 48 euro back from vodafone

owenc · 28-03-2010 12:25PM

weiland79 wrote: »

I think my story comes under the heading of 'completly stupid'

A few years ago i lived in a city with an underground.After a night on the tiles and a skin full of booze i went off to get the train home.As i got to the platform my train was just leaving,so instead of waiting for the next train i decided to walk home.
Through the tunnel...
I remember sobering up about half way through in the pitch black and freaking the f*ck out and running blindly to the next platform.
I obviously made it,but every time i think of it i feel sick sick sick to my stomach.

So, incredibly lucky for still being alive,and incredibly stupid for...... well that doesn't really need an explanation does it?:(

that is nuts!! imagine if you did that on the london underground... how did you walk on a track with all the electricity!

punchdrunk · 28-03-2010 12:31PM

owenc wrote: »

that is nuts!! imagine if you did that on the london underground... how did you walk on a track with all the electricity!

you see the rats running along the tracks all the time

owenc · 28-03-2010 12:33PM

punchdrunk wrote: »

you see the rats running along the tracks all the time

i dont and i dont want to either!

Mc Love · 28-03-2010 12:34PM

Was in nightclub and spotted 50 euro in the urinal -

Unbelievable strokes of luck...

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