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"Ten years ago, while traveling in Costa Rica, he was a passenger in a small plane that crashed in the jungle, killing the pilot, co-pilot and a passenger. Pack
by ballarak 5y ago
"Ten years ago, while traveling in Costa Rica, he was a passenger in a small plane that crashed in the jungle, killing the pilot, co-pilot and a passenger. Packard sustained multiple serious injuries to his abdomen and upper body. The rescuers that found the remaining five passengers after two nights in the jungle said they wouldn’t have survived another night."
This guy's luck is clearly maxed out. What a crazy pair of stories.
- soheil 5y agoI mean if you swim in whale's proximity and fly in sketch planes, crazy shit is bound to happen to you. The real tragedy is the stories there is no one left to tell. As always true wisdom is found in country songs: If the Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me -Rusty Ford -- My Truck, My Dog, and You
- ashtonkem 5y agoSwimming near whales isn’t unsafe at all. They’re not particularly aggressive, a lone human is too small to worry about, and we operate on completely different sections of the food chain. This was more akin to getting stepped on by a giraffe that didn’t see you there. Total accident.
- soheil 5y ago> Swimming near whales isn’t unsafe at all Ha! "I was completely inside" What else needs to happen for you to think there might be an element of being unsafe? The man was swallowed by a whale, I don't care if whales are aggressive or not, if anything can swallow me whole I consider that a bit unsafe. > This was more akin to getting stepped on by a giraffe that didn’t see you there. So you also consider hanging out near giraffes to be completely safe knowing they might accidentally step on you? That's a very interesting definition of safety. I think what you want to say is that animals like whales are friendly and we shouldn't harm them. Point taken.
- void_mint 5y ago> Ha! "I was completely inside" What else needs to happen for you to think there might be an element of being unsafe? If a thing happens once, you decide it's categorically unsafe? Not a freak accident? Must be rough for you to actually do anything, given the how many possibilities there are to accidentally die doing basically anything.
- soheil 5y agoYou call diving in the ocean and swimming near whales "basically anything"? Diving itself is pretty high risk and the fatality rate isn't as low as you might think. You comparing essential daily activity to recreational diving in whale infested waters as equals is a quite mind boggling.
- void_mint 5y agoIf you think this stuff is bad wait till you hear about driving...
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- Talanes 5y agoGiven how many "An X Year Old Person Died in This Intersection This Year" signs I pass just going about my day, I don't think the fatality rate of essential daily activity is as low as you might think.
- aeortiz 5y agoGiraffes are dangerous right? I wouldn't want to be near one (or a Hippo, or an Ostrich, etc...)
- KMag 5y agoGiraffes can kick lions hard enough to kill them, or at least injure them enough to prevent lions from returning to effective hunting before starving to death. In my very limited experience (4 or 5 day safari in Kruger), Giraffes are pretty shy, but you really want to avoid startling them or otherwise putting them in a situation where they feel a need to defend themselves or their young.
- lumberingjack 5y agoYeah but everyone thinks that lions are badass but they fail like 77% of their hunts so they're more like huge failures.
- dotancohen 5y agoTo be fair, what I'm usually hunting I don't eat, but I fail much more than 77% of the time. Probably most men do.
- OJFord 5y agoBut perhaps not when we actually depended on it, and had all the practice/experience that goes with that.
- KMag 5y ago> To be fair, what I'm usually hunting I don't eat, Well, you don't know what you're missing, and it might be part of your problem. Just say'n.
- dotancohen 5y ago:)
- bouncycastle 5y agoRemember Steve Irwin aka The Crocodile Man? The guy was picking up venomous snakes and wrestling with crocodiles. Then got killed by a "harmless" stingray that operated on a totally different section of the food chain...
- ashtonkem 5y agoFreak accidents happen. If you start drawing conclusions about the risk of various activities and animals from literally one incident, you’ll end up with all kinds of erroneous and silly opinions about what is dangerous and what is not. Focusing in on Stingrays, the number of confirmed deaths by stingrays is maybe as high as 30 ever. Yes, Steve Irwin was one of them, but that doesn’t magically move the statistics, it just makes it more salient. For comparison, coconuts kill 150 or so people per year. In a real, measurable way, taking a nap under a coconut tree is more dangerous than swimming with a stingray.
- bouncycastle 5y agoI forgot what this conversation was about, giraffes or something? Anyway, thanks for the tips, I'll make sure to stay away from coconut trees!
- travisjungroth 5y agoThis is just an impressive level of victim blaming. Swallowed by a whale? Shouldn't have been in the ocean. It's bound to happen.
- vmception 5y agoI can agree that victim blaming isnt useful either in response to a victim, or in hindsight I also agree that there is a level of personal responsibility that can’t be abstracted away to just the perpetrators And finally, sometimes people just get eaten
- soheil 5y ago> Swallowed by a whale? How would you phrase it? "Eaten by a whale?" Is that less victim blame-y? > Shouldn't have been in the ocean. You can swim in the ocean just don't go near where the whales are, it might just help with not becoming a victim of whales' constant eating habit and as a result alleviate the tendency to make greatly exaggerated sarcastic remarks.
- travisjungroth 5y agoIt’s not the “swallowed” part. It’s the “bound to happen” part. He didn’t even know the whale was around.
- ryantgtg 5y agoIn the ocean, the whales stick within the designated Whale Zones, marked by vast rings of starfish holding hands (??). When you cross the starfish, as Packard must have, then you’re clearly in the Zone. At that point you have no one to blame but yourself when you get accidentally swallowed.
- jaclaz 5y agoNaah, that is the old way/conception of confinement, in modern, eco-zoo-friendly, countries whales are allowed to roam freely in the ocean, it is the swimmers that must wear high visibility vests with a sign "I am not a snack!" written in whalish.
- dylan604 5y agoHe's still alive, so it sounds like he's got a little credit left on that account. The big creditor in the sky hasn't declined his charges yet. Remember this guy's name. If you ever meet this guy and he asks if you want to go on a trip with him, I would advise politely declining. You should however, offer to buy him a beer to have him tell his stories.
- ukyrgf 5y agoHe is saying his "luck" skill is maxed out, so he is +10 while others could be having a real -10 of it.
- aspaceman 5y agoI’ve liked the interpretation that high luck isn’t necessarily good. It just means highly improbable events happen to you more likely...
- iron_ball 5y agoTeela Brown from Ringworld. She was the result of a selective breeding program intended to create the luckiest human alive... but it turned out the _real_ lucky ones were all the "failures" who did _not_ get recruited for an impossibly dangerous mission.
- dylan604 5y agoLuck seems to me to be a zero sum game, so if someone is lucky, someone else must be unlucky. It's like a new character on What We Do In The Shadows as a luck vampire.
- sateesh 5y agoThe theme of the movie "Unbreakable" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbreakable_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbreakable_(film)
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- RHSman2 5y agoJoe Simpson: Hold my beer
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- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoHe also says he lost some friends to great white sharks on the west coast, which strains credulity, given that there are 2-3 shark attack deaths per decade across the entire west coast.