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Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by Forwetinnah: 1:54am On Aug 31, 2014
nickz: 3.my phone!

fell from 2-storey building,still opened nairaland this nightgringrin

*dancing shoki*

Guinness book of technology where una dey? The phone try no be small..with all the fake phones that can't even survive browsing flying around these days, e survive 2 storey fall tongue
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by Nobody: 3:27am On Aug 31, 2014
God is awesome! Really jaw dropping.

Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by akpanikpe(m): 4:14am On Aug 31, 2014
publicenemy: No. 11 : PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN : Escaped assasination attempt by the northern bad guys...





























By deciding not to go to Chibok to visit the parents of the kidnapped girls... grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
Good one.
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by wolexy2020(m): 4:26am On Aug 31, 2014
Pronmix: 8
Aron Ralston: Amputated his lower right Arm to Survive
the Mountains

On May 2003, while Aron Ralston was on a
canyoneering trip in Blue John Canyon (near Moab,
Utah), a boulder fell and pinned his right forearm,
crushing it.
After trying for five days to lift and break the boulder,
desperation took him to great measures like carving
his name, date of birth and date of death into the
boulder, drinking his own urine because of lack of
water and videotaping his last goodbyes to his family.
Finally, a dehydrated and delirious Ralston decided to
bow his arm against a chockstone and snap the radius
and ulna bones. Using the dull blade on his multiuse
tool, he cut the soft tissue around the break. He then
used the tool's pliers to tear at the tougher tendons.
After Ralston was rescued, his arm was retrieved by
park authorities and removed from under the boulder.
It was cremated and given to Ralston. He returned to
the boulder and left the ashes there.
This guy has a movie to his story ...watched it last year..
The guy really tried... he is married now with a kid I think..
Wait ooh ... who even ask me sef undecided undecided

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Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by wiringdpt(m): 5:28am On Aug 31, 2014
Selak story dey fear me.
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by Valfrankie(m): 6:33am On Aug 31, 2014
boxiposhags: my guy i see you jare. we are made of black.
Correct!!!! Like minds think alike, just like Real Men know themselves and drink on the same table. *PASSES HIM A BOTTLE* MAY YOUR DAYS BE LONG and be made of MORE!!! grincheesy

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Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by Dhulqarnain(m): 6:37am On Aug 31, 2014
Pronmix: 3.
Andes Survivors: Crashed on the Andes Mountains, lasted
72 days.

On Friday the 13th of October, 1972, a Uruguayan Air
Force twin turboprop Fairchild FH-227D was flying over
the Andes carrying Stella Maris College's "Old
Christians" rugby union team from Montevideo, Uruguay,
to play a match in Santiago, Chile. When the plane was
flying through the pass in the mountains, the pilot
notified air controllers in Santiago that he was over
Curicó, Chile, and was cleared to descend. This would
prove to be a fatal error. Since the pass was covered by
the clouds, the pilots had to rely on the usual time
required to cross the pass (dead reckoning). However,
they failed to take into account strong headwinds that
ultimately slowed the plane and increased the time
required to complete the crossing. As a result, the turn
and descent was initiated too soon, before the plane had
passed through the mountains. Dipping into the cloud
cover while still over the mountains, the Fairchild soon
crashed on an unnamed peak (later called Glacier of
Tears), located between Chile and Argentina.
Twelve people died in the crash. Survivors not only had
to withstand the hunger and the fearful Mountains, but
also 30 degree-below-zero temperatures during the
night. They tried to survive with the scarce food
reserves they had until being rescued, but they lost their
hope when heard that the search had ceased on the
radio. Desperate owing to the lack of food and physically
exhausted, they were forced to feed themselves on their
death partners to keep on living. Finally fed up with the
extremely low temperatures and the avalanche threats,
as well as anguished by the continuos deaths of their
partners and the bad rescue prospects, two of them
decided to cross the huge mountains to reach Chile. On
22nd of December of 1972, after being isolated for 72
days, the World found out and knew there were 16
survivors that beat Death in the Andes mountains.
I read a book about this story.I think it ws titled 'Alive'.
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by McWhillion(m): 6:47am On Aug 31, 2014
Pronmix: 5.
Roy Sullivan: Struck by Lightning 7 Times

Roy Sullivan was a Virginia Forest Ranger who had an
incredible attraction to lightning... or rather lightning
had an attraction to him. Over his 36-year career as a
ranger, Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times -
and survived each jolt, but not unscathed. His seventh
strike put him in the Guinness Book of World Records:
In 1942, the first lightning strike shot through
Sullivan's leg and knocked his big toenail off.
In 1969, a second strike burned off his eyebrows and
knocked him unconscious.
In 1970, another strike left his shoulder seared.
In 1972, his hair was set on fire and Roy had to
dump a bucket of water over his head to cool off.
On August 7, 1973, another bolt ripped through his
hat and hit him on the head, set his hair on fire again,
threw him out of his truck and knocked his left shoe
off.
On June 5, 1976, a sixth strike in 1976 left him with
an injured ankle.
On June 25th, 1977, the last lightning bolt to hit Roy
Sullivan sent him to the hospital with chest and
stomach burns in 1977.
His wife was also struck once, when a sudden storm
welled up as she and her husband were out hanging
wash on the back yard clothesline. On September 28,
1983, Roy Sullivan died at age 71, reportedly of a self-
inflicted gunshot wound over troubles unrelated to
lightning.
This guy worships Sango

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Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by zurine(f): 6:49am On Aug 31, 2014
quite informative
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by McWhillion(m): 6:50am On Aug 31, 2014
Pronmix: 2.
Frane Selak: Escaped from a derailed train, a door-less
plane, a bus crash, a car into flames, another 2 car
accidents... then won Million Dollar lottery!

Luck has always been on his side or vice versa for
croatian music teacher Frane Selak (born in 1929), who
is well known around the world for as many fatal
accidents as spectacular escapes. The first of his
numerous near-death experiences began on a cold
January day in 1962, when Selak was on a train to
Dubrovnik: it suddenly derailed into an icy river, killing
17 passengers. He managed to escape with a broken
arm, minor scratches and bruises.
A year later, Selak was flying, from Zagreb to Rijeka,
when a door abruptly blew away from the cockpit of the
plane, as he was blown off the plane. The accident killed
19 people, however, Selak was lucky enough to land on
a haystack, and wake up some days later in hospital,
with minor injuries.
It was in 1966 that he met with the third misadventure
while traveling on a bus that crashed and plunged into a
river. There were four people dead. Astonishingly, Selak
managed to escape unharmed again.
In 1970, Selak was driving along when, all of a sudden,
his car caught fire. He was fortunate again to have left
the car before the fuel tank exploded. Three years later,
another of Selak’s car caught fire, blowing flames
through the air vents. To a greater dismay, Selak's lost
most of his hair.
In 1995, Selak was in Zagreb when he was hit by a bus,
again leaving nothing but a few injuries. The following
year, while driving through a mountain road, Selak drove
off a guardrail to escape an oncoming truck and landed
on a tree to watch his car explode 300 feet below.
In a surprising turn of events in 2003, Selak won the
million-dollar Croatian lottery, turning the man into
either the world’s unluckiest man, or the world’s
luckiest one.
This guy is an ardent Ogun worshipper

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Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by dazangel11(f): 7:01am On Aug 31, 2014
Nice
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by oluwanoni: 7:03am On Aug 31, 2014
malikmoreni: [size=18pt]DAT fat MAN JUMPED FROM A PLANE, TRAIN AHAN OP, OPEE[/size] angry

That man was younger then....didn't u see dates...how hard can it be to digest a topic properly.

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Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by eph12(m): 7:06am On Aug 31, 2014
Vanellope:

God at work.
Biko which one be one like and two old likes again wey I see for your profile? Ya fine shasmiley
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by omoadeleye(m): 7:41am On Aug 31, 2014
but to frank selak just to think about it, he is being cursed how can he be getting a lot of accident that claims many peoples life and he was yet to be dead, this guy need to seek a priest or pastor or any spiritual power to have his breakthrough and stop wasting peoples life again due to his own cause




Pronmix: 2.
Frane Selak: Escaped from a derailed train, a door-less
plane, a bus crash, a car into flames, another 2 car
accidents... then won Million Dollar lottery!

Luck has always been on his side or vice versa for
croatian music teacher Frane Selak (born in 1929), who
is well known around the world for as many fatal
accidents as spectacular escapes. The first of his
numerous near-death experiences began on a cold
January day in 1962, when Selak was on a train to
Dubrovnik: it suddenly derailed into an icy river, killing
17 passengers. He managed to escape with a broken
arm, minor scratches and bruises.
A year later.
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by ccollins(m): 7:46am On Aug 31, 2014
iceberylin: whites Faking News since 1000BC
you are talking crap. I could remember even a nigerian guy who used the illegal route by land though the sahara to go to spain. He had similar experiences sort of.I think he was the only survivor among them all that made that journey

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Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by Nobody: 7:52am On Aug 31, 2014
oluwanoni:

That man was younger then....didn't u see dates...how hard can it be to digest a topic properly.

Haba, take am easy, i offend you?, wasn't it a joke ni? Abi you own NL? angry shocked
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by fyneboi79(m): 7:53am On Aug 31, 2014
stevecrun: Their time never reach..
That's becos them talk for mind say them no go die grin Onye kwe chi e ekwe(what ‎u wish ur God will allow)
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by Rejoice5000(f): 8:05am On Aug 31, 2014
If na 9ja now,they will say na witch from mothers compound or fathers compound.
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by vivaciousvivi(f): 8:14am On Aug 31, 2014
myads890: I once saw a movie about this story but I can't remember the title. The guy get mind die!


You are right. I remember James Franco acted the lead. The story was also written in a book. It just shows the length human beings can go when the survival instinct hits.
As Jigsaw would ask in the saw Franchise films, "how far would u go to stay alive"?

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Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by spanzed(m): 8:24am On Aug 31, 2014
Oluwa is really at work...thou' their time never reach ni grin
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by pigin: 8:33am On Aug 31, 2014
The list is not completed without Olu Ibukun Koye, the diplomat who survived Ebola.

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Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by Hero10001: 9:05am On Aug 31, 2014
myads890: I once saw a movie about this story but I can't remember the title. The guy get mind die!

SAW III is it! The guy freed himself from shackles n chains by amputating his foot with an hacksaw!!
Btwn, i tear up reading things like this.
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by Emary(f): 9:06am On Aug 31, 2014
Pronmix: 2.
Frane Selak: Escaped from a derailed train, a door-less
plane, a bus crash, a car into flames, another 2 car
accidents... then won Million Dollar lottery!

Luck has always been on his side or vice versa for
croatian music teacher Frane Selak (born in 1929), who
is well known around the world for as many fatal
accidents as spectacular escapes. The first of his
numerous near-death experiences began on a cold
January day in 1962, when Selak was on a train to
Dubrovnik: it suddenly derailed into an icy river, killing
17 passengers. He managed to escape with a broken
arm, minor scratches and bruises.
A year later, Selak was flying, from Zagreb to Rijeka,
when a door abruptly blew away from the cockpit of the
plane, as he was blown off the plane. The accident killed
19 people, however, Selak was lucky enough to land on
a haystack, and wake up some days later in hospital,
with minor injuries.
It was in 1966 that he met with the third misadventure
while traveling on a bus that crashed and plunged into a
river. There were four people dead. Astonishingly, Selak
managed to escape unharmed again.
In 1970, Selak was driving along when, all of a sudden,
his car caught fire. He was fortunate again to have left
the car before the fuel tank exploded. Three years later,
another of Selak’s car caught fire, blowing flames
through the air vents. To a greater dismay, Selak's lost
most of his hair.
In 1995, Selak was in Zagreb when he was hit by a bus,
again leaving nothing but a few injuries. The following
year, while driving through a mountain road, Selak drove
off a guardrail to escape an oncoming truck and landed
on a tree to watch his car explode 300 feet below.
In a surprising turn of events in 2003, Selak won the
million-dollar Croatian lottery, turning the man into
either the world’s unluckiest man, or the world’s
luckiest one.

Honestly, one would search the manifest to ensure this man is not aboard any vehicle one is travelling in!

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Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by Nobody: 9:06am On Aug 31, 2014
fyneboi79: That's becos them talk for mind say them no go die grin Onye kwe chi e ekwe(what ‎u wish ur God will allow)
O ezi okwu

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Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by oluwanoni: 9:45am On Aug 31, 2014
malikmoreni:

Haba, take am easy, i offend you?, wasn't it a joke ni? Abi you own NL? >sad shocked

undecided....if that's a joke? It wasn't funny tho....but God bless ur hustle..
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by gatiano(m): 10:08am On Aug 31, 2014
i think you know infact what you are doing, white washing the black brothers, the african brains. with all the billions of miracles happening daily, you choose those particular ones that have happened decades ago. can you explain why? perhaps you got it from a whitewashing site, you copied and paste. get yourself a camera, travel around africa, pick the best things and the miraculous wonders that are happening around and within it. paste it right here so that the african can have a cause to glorify the Most High GOD.
Pronmix: Lol! calm your t1t1es nobody is worshiping anybody, I just think its amazing how life can turn out.
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by Nobody: 10:20am On Aug 31, 2014
JUJU



#Sings in Ice Prince Voice; Anytime I read this kain Post I dy feel like say na Juju dy worry dem, I npo fit explain anything cos I dy feel like say na Juju oyinbo get.....continues to hummmmm out of the post
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by Candour(m): 10:33am On Aug 31, 2014
Some things are just unexplainable when it comes to the survival instinct of the average human. You just have to keep wondering "how can, how could"?

Good luck to the ones still alive.
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by Infomizer(m): 10:38am On Aug 31, 2014
Epic!
op nice...
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by Nobody: 12:09pm On Aug 31, 2014
oluwanoni:

undecided....if that's a joke? It wasn't funny tho....but God bless ur hustle..

Epele Sir cool
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by mizzy007(m): 1:02pm On Aug 31, 2014
gothrones:

I guess that God didn't care about others who died in those accidents.
I guess u don't read your bible
Re: 10 People Who Survived The Impossible. by mrramadan(m): 1:50pm On Aug 31, 2014
Idrismusty97:
Wow!!! Bravest man in earth!


Wow, this one na T Bag from Prison Break oh... lol....... People get mind sha.

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