7 Unluckiest People in the World

1. Major Summerford Struck by lightning... 4 times!

A British officer, Major Summerford, while fighting in the fields of Flanders in February 1918 was knocked off his horse by a flash of lightning and paralyzed from the waist down. Summerford retired and moved to Vancouver. One day in 1924, as he fished alongside a river,
lightning hit the tree he was sitting under and
paralyzed his right side.
Two years later Summerford was sufficiently
recovered that he was able to take walks in a
local park.
He was walking there one summer day in 1930
when a lightning bolt smashed into him,
permanently paralyzing him. He died two years
later. But lightning sought him out one last
time.
Four years later, during a storm, lightning
struck a cemetery and destroyed a tombstone.
The deceased buried here? Major Summerford.
2. John Lyne
Suffered 16 major accidents in his life. As a
teen, he felt from a tree; on his way back
from hospital, his bus crashed.
John Lyne
could well be
Britain's
unluckiest man.
'Calamity John'
has suffered 16
major accidents
in his life, including lightning strikes, a rock-fall
in a mine and three car crashes. 'I don't think
there is any reason or explanation. Things could
have been much worse and I could have died
but it doesn't worry me too much.'
Mr Lyne's mishaps cover a lifetime and he has
even been known to suffer two accidents at
once. As a child, he fell off a horse and cart –
only to be run over by a delivery van. When he
was a teenager, he broke his arm falling from a
tree.
On his way back from hospital, his bus crashed,
breaking the same arm in another place. The
date, of course, was Friday the 13th.
3. William "Bud" Post
won the lottery, but got sued by everyone and
finally went broke and died
William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in the
Pennsylvania lottery in 1988 but now lives on
his Social Security. "I wish it never happened. It
was totally a nightmare," says Post.
A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a
share of his winnings. It wasn't his only lawsuit.
A brother was arrested for hiring a hit man to
kill him, hoping to inherit a share of the
winnings.
Other siblings pestered him until he agreed to
invest in a car business and a restaurant in
Sarasota, Fla., - two ventures that brought no
money back and further strained his
relationship with his siblings. Post even spent
time in jail for firing a gun over the head of a
bill collector. Within a year, he was $1 million in
debt.
Post admitted he was both careless and foolish,
trying to please his family. He eventually
declared bankruptcy. Now he lives quietly on
$450 a month and food stamps. "I'm tired, I'm
over 65 years old, and I just had a serious
operation for a heart aneurysm. Lotteries don't
mean (anything) to me," said Post. He died on
Jan 15 of respiratory failure.
4. Frane Selak
Escaped from a derailed train, a door-less
plane, a bus crash, a car into flames, another
2 car accidents... but then won $1,000,000
dollars on the lottery!
Frane Selak (born
1929) is a
Croatian music
teacher famous
for his numerous
escapes from
fatal accidents:
In January, 1962,
Selak was
traveling via train
from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik. However, the train
had suddenly derailed and plunged into an icy
river, killing 17 passengers. Selak managed to
escape, and only suffered a broken arm and
minor scrapes and bruises.
The following year, while traveling from Zagreb
to Rijeka when the door blew away from the
cockpit, forcing him out of the plane. Although
19 others were killed, he suffered only minor
injuries and had miraculously landed in a
haystack.
In 1966, he was riding on a bus that crashed and
plunged into a river. Four others were killed,
but Selak managed to escape unharmed.
In 1970, he managed to escape before a faulty
fuel pump engulfed his car into flames.
In 1973, another of Selak's cars caught fire,
forcing fire through the air vents. He suffered
no injuries save the loss of most of his hair.
In 1995, he was hit by a city bus, but once again
suffered minor injuries.
In 1996 he escaped when he drove off a cliff to
escape an oncoming truck. He managed to land
in a tree, and watched as his car exploded 300
feet below him.
In 2003 he won $1,000,000 dollars in the
Croatian lottery, and had stated that "I know
God was watching me over all these years." He
has reputedly refused to fly to Australia to air
on a Doritos commercial, saying he "didn't want
to test his luck."[2]
He has said that he can either be looked as "the
world's unluckiest man, or the world's luckiest
man," and prefers the latter.
5. Evelyn Adams
Won the lottery twice, now lives on a trailer
"Winning the lottery isn't always what it's
cracked up to be," says Evelyn Adams, who won
the New Jersey lottery not just once, but twice
(1985, 1986), to the tune of $5.4 million. Today
the money is all gone and Adams lives in a
trailer. "I won the American dream but I lost it,
too. It was a very hard fall. It's called rock
bottom," says Adams.
"Everybody wanted my money. Everybody had
their hand out. I never learned one simple word
in the English language - 'No.' I wish I had the
chance to do it all over again. I'd be much
smarter about it now," says Adams, who also
lost money at the slot machines in Atlantic City.
"I was a big-time gambler," admits Adams. "I
didn't drop a million dollars, but it was a lot of
money. I made mistakes, some I regret, some I
don't. I'm human. I can't go back now so I just
go forward, one step at a time."
6. Ann Hodges
The only person (on record) to have been hit
by a Meteorite
Ann Elizabeth Hodges (1923 - 1972) of Sylacauga,
Alabama is the only person of record to have
been hit by a meteorite. On November 30, 1954,
she was napping on her living room couch when
a grapefruit-sized meteoroid crashed through
the roof of her house. It bounced off her large
wooden console radio, destroying it, and struck
her on the arm and hip. She was badly bruised
but able to walk.
As it streaked through the atmosphere, the
meteor made a fireball visible from three states,
even though it fell early in the afternoon. As the
first documented case of an extraterrestrial
object hitting a person, the event received
worldwide publicity.
The United States Air Force sent a helicopter to
take the meteorite. Hodges' husband, Eugene,
hired a lawyer to get it back. The Hodgeses'
landlord also claimed it, wanting to sell it to
cover the damage to the house. There were
offers of up to 5,000 U.S. dollars for the
meteorite. By the time the meteorite was
returned to the Hodgeses, over a year later,
public attention had diminished and they were
unable to find a buyer willing to pay much
money.
Ms. Hodges was uncomfortable with the public
attention and the stress of the dispute over
ownership of the meteorite. Against her
husband's wishes, she donated it to the
Alabama Museum of Natural History. It is an
ordinary chondrite stone (H4), and weighs
about 8.5 pounds (4 kg). It is on display at the
University of Alabama.
7. Henry Ziegland
Killed by a very persistent bullet
Henry Ziegland
thought he had dodged
fate. In 1883, he broke
off a relationship with
his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed
suicide.
The girl's brother was so enraged that he hunted
down Ziegland and shot him.
The brother, believing he had killed Ziegland,
then turned his gun on himself and took his
own life.
But Ziegland had not been killed. The bullet, in
fact, had only grazed his face and then lodged in
a tree. Ziegland surely thought himself a lucky
man.
Some years later, however, Ziegland decided to
cut down the large tree, which still had the
bullet in it. The task seemed so formidable that
he decided to blow it up with a few sticks of
dynamite. The explosion propelled the bullet
into Ziegland's head, killing him.

Source: www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2008/03/05/7-unluckiest-people-in-the-world.html

poor ziegland, how could someone wanna blow up a tree?? That nigga that was struck by lightning continuously, how did he offend mr sango??

D lightening guy sha! D lottery guy dat won TWICE nd lost evrytn is a...a...goat o. D other guy shld be called d one of d luckiest guys in d world. He has walked thru many valleyssss of d shadow of death nd yet...wow!

that ziegland ,the builet was made for him

So-meluv:
D lightening guy sha! D lottery guy dat won TWICE nd lost evrytn is a...a...goat o. D other guy shld be called d one of d luckiest guys in d world. He has walked thru many valleyssss of d shadow of death nd yet...wow!

Truly, Salek can be said to be world's luckiest unlucky man.
Unlucky in the sense that someone could be involved in so many deadly accidents in a lifetime and lucky to have survived them all .