scott wrote:
>> Yah. 20 seconds early or late and she'd still be alive and unharmed.
> 
> But for every person that gets something like this, there are thousands 
> who escaped by 5, 10, 20 seconds from death.  Just due to the huge 
> numbers of people on this planet, there will always be stories like 
> this, people who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

True...

> Don't forget, there's (roughly) a 1 in 14 million chance of winning a 
> lottery, yet still hundreds of people worldwide have this happen to them 
> every week...

Really? I thought it was actually quite unusual for anybody to win? 
(This is why they have so many rollover weeks.)

[As an aside, I always thought a rollover week was a particularly *bad* 
way to try to sell tickets. "Hey, everybody! Last week several million 
people bought a ticket and NOBODY WON! You should hand over all your 
money right away for your chance to not win this week's draw!"]

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