Unlucky bastards throughout history

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Stuart Sutcliffe

Beatles original bassist. Kicked in the head in a fracas after a gig. Met a lass and decided to leave them to do art. Dead a year later with a stroke linked to the kick in the head.

Poor bugger. Could have been a contender.
 


Every Christmas in Spain, there’s a lottery draw so massive it’s called El Gordo, which translates as “the fat one.”

And the tiny village of Sodeto had some serious cause for celebration after all of the 70 households — except for one — purchased tickets. And these lucky locals’ number came up (58268), resulting in them getting a share of the monster $950 million first-place prize. Do the maths.Sure enough, the residents, mainly farmers and unemployed construction workers, walked away with millions.

Apart from one unfortunate guy called Costis Mitsotakis. Poor old Costis. It seems that the good folk from the homemakers’ association, who were selling the tickets, had neglected to knock on his door.


In terms of being unlucky, it’s hard to top Henry Zeigland – the man who thought he’d dodged fate. But perhaps it was all just poetic justice.

It all started in 1883, when he broke off a relationship with his girlfriend, who then killed herself from the distress. Her brother went so crazy that he vowed to kill Ziegland no matter what. He hunted him down and shot him. Believing him dead, the brother then turned the gun on himself and ended his own life.

But Ziegland wasn’t dead. The bullet had only grazed his face and then lodged in a large tree behind him. He thought himself an incredibly lucky man.

But the story didn’t end there. Years later, Ziegland decided to cut down the tree, which still had the bullet lodged in it. The task seemed so tough that he decided to blow it up with a few sticks of dynamite.

The explosion sent the bullet out straight into Ziegland’s head, killing him instantly. Now that’s freaky – or incredibly unlucky.


http://listverse.com/2013/01/05/10-unluckiest-people-ever/
 
The two lads who had to fill in for my Granda and his mate who had fallen asleep in the sun on a south coast beach when they should have been in a Lancaster bomber on its way to Germany, the plane never made it back....:cry:
 
Aye poor fucker. Travels 200 mile to see a Viking army off and then has to turn around all the way back and fight a sly French fucker. Bastard.

Do you think that he should have rested for a few days? I think he fought ASAP as the Normans were ravaging the lands that Harold owned.

Remember that the Normans weren't really French and that they had a lot of allies with them (and the blessing of the Pope).

William had a decent claim to the throne didn't he?
 
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