Neither of these men can be considered “lucky” but both survived thanks to flat out dumb luck.
The first guy was struck by a bolt of lightning that not only knocked him out of his shoes but left them “charred and smoking.”
My leg hairs were singed. I could smell the burnt hair,” he explained. “I looked across the driveway and I could see my boots over there. They were no longer on my feet, and one of them was smoking’. At that point I realized I had just been hit by lightning.”
O’Connor called his wife and shot cell phone video of the smoking boot and his bleeding tongue to prove to her he wasn’t kidding. He seems dazed in the video shot just moments after he came to. She urged him to go to the emergency room right away.
“In my mind, I’d survived a lightning strike, and I didn’t think things could get any worse from there,” said O’Connor.
Contestant number two is an anonymous fella minding his own business when a truck smashed into him and his scooter. The impact sent him flying towards the curb, right into the waiting arms of an inflated kiddie pool.
Alright, so who got the bigger lucky break?