On a cold winter day, many years ago, a French art teacher named Pierre Chevalier got on a train in Lyon to go to Paris. When he started his journey, he didn’t know that it was the beginning of almost 40 years of accidents and near-death experiences.
During the journey, the train came off the tracks and fell into an icy river, killing 12 passengers. Chevalier managed to swim back to the shore. He had a broken leg and he needed treatment for shock, but was very happy to be alive.
Two years later, Chevalier was on a plane from Paris to Moscow when a door suddenly opened and he fell out. A few minutes later, the plane crashed; 27 people were killed. Chevalier woke up in a hospital. The doctors told him he had been lucky – he’d landed in a haystack. He only had minor injuries.
A few years later, he was hit by a bus, but again had no major injuries. Then a year after that, he was driving on a mountain road when he saw a lorry coming straight at him. He drove the car off the road, jumped out, landed in a tree – and watched his car explode 100 metres below. If he hadn’t jumped out, and if that tree hadn’t been there, he would have died.
‘There are two ways you can look at it,’ Chevalier said. ‘I’m either the world’s unluckiest man, or the world’s luckiest.’ When a reporter asked Chevalier what he thought, he chose the ‘luckiest’ option. (далее…)
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