Four stories of people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time

Sometimes the world plays tricks on people. It's not your lack of intelligence: you may be in the wrong place at the wrong time. For example, situations such as a window that falls on the head of a person who has stopped to tie their shoes on the street or be mistaken for a criminal for being nearby and wearing similar clothing. This can happen to anyone.

However, you may feel lucky after learning the story of these five people. Read below and feel more relieved.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, on August 6, 1945, was in Hiroshima doing business for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. When he got out of a car on the street, a plane went over him and two skydivers jumped out of him. In the next instant, the Little Boy atomic bomb exploded in the Japanese city. The epicenter of the blast was less than two miles from where it was. The heat wave from the bomb burned his torso, ruptured his eardrum and temporarily blinded him.

So Yamaguchi found a bomb shelter and by the next day was well enough to return home to Nagasaki.

By August 9 of the same year, he was partially recovered and had already returned to work. While explaining to his boss how Little Boy destroyed the city of Hiroshima, he saw a white flash in the office window. It was Fat Man, the second American atomic bomb that detonated the city.

Yamaguchi was recognized by the Japanese government as the only survivor of the two bombs - there are still about 165 survivors, but they were not recognized by Japan. He lived to be 93 and died in 2010 from stomach cancer.

Disarming Family

In 2010, Haiti suffered one of the worst disasters in its history. Earthquakes that hit the country left destruction on all sides. As a result, many Haitian families did their best to leave the country. Pierre Desarmes and his relatives were successful in this search. After contact with the Chilean military, Pierre's family was taken to Santiago, Chile.

It turns out that a month after the Haitians arrived, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit the city. "I left my country and got here because of an earthquake. And the same thing happens here, " said Philomene, Pierre's cousin.

The family has not suffered from other earthquakes so far and have probably found peace in South America.

Jason and Jenny Cairns-Lawrence

This British couple simply managed to vacation in three places that suffered terrorist attacks during their stay.

The story begins September 11, 2001, during the attacks on the World Trade Center in the USA. The couple was in New York when the planes hit the towers, and the rest we all already know. On his second trip to London, a series of suicide bombings were carried out on the London Underground, leaving 52 people dead and 700 injured.

After going through these two traumatic events, the couple decided to spend their holidays in Mumbai, India, in 2008. On November 26, while both were touring the city, a gunman from the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba attacked several tourist buildings and killed 164 people.

In an interview with a newspaper, Jenny Lawrence commented: "I shouldn't be laughing at this, but it's obviously a strange coincidence. The terrorist attacks happened only when we were in the cities. We'll probably put it all on paper someday, but we're not good writers. "

Austin Hatch

Austin may have done one of the biggest exploits on this list: he survived two plane crashes.

In 2003, Hatch was on a small plane when he crashed. In the accident, his mother, sister and brother passed away. The pilot in question was his father, who lived to fly again.

Eight years later, in 2011, Hatch was on another plane that also crashed. The accident killed his stepmother and the pilot, who was none other than his father. Hatch was in a coma for eight weeks and suffered several fractures, which made his recovery a doubt.

Today, not only recovered, Hatch is on the basketball team at the University of Michigan.